Sarah Huckabee Sanders Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
- 6 years ago
Sarah Huckabee Sanders Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
Jim Acosta of CNN asked her why, at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Trump called the American justice system “a joke” and “a laughingstock.”
“That’s not what he said,” she shot back — it’s like a reflex with her —
and later added, “He said the process has people calling us a joke and calling us a laughingstock.” Wow.
“I think the American people elected somebody who’s tough, who’s smart and who’s a fighter,” she said.
“General Kelly was simply making the point that just
because history isn’t perfect, it doesn’t mean it’s not our history,” she said on Tuesday with an impossibly straight face, utterly ignoring Kelly’s “compromise” comment and his gauzy eulogy of Robert E. Lee.
“And that’s Donald Trump.”
She zealously parrots his contention that there’s no evidence of anything untoward between his campaign
and Russia, dismissing his hapless namesake’s infamous meeting in Trump Tower with a Russian emissary as “pretty standard campaign operating procedure.”
She edits out the revelation that George Papadopoulos — once named by Trump himself
as an important adviser to the campaign — was trying to coordinate with Moscow.
It hit me this week, around the time when Sarah Huckabee Sanders was blithely seconding
Chief of Staff John Kelly’s Civil War revisionism, that I missed Sean Spicer.
Jim Acosta of CNN asked her why, at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Trump called the American justice system “a joke” and “a laughingstock.”
“That’s not what he said,” she shot back — it’s like a reflex with her —
and later added, “He said the process has people calling us a joke and calling us a laughingstock.” Wow.
“I think the American people elected somebody who’s tough, who’s smart and who’s a fighter,” she said.
“General Kelly was simply making the point that just
because history isn’t perfect, it doesn’t mean it’s not our history,” she said on Tuesday with an impossibly straight face, utterly ignoring Kelly’s “compromise” comment and his gauzy eulogy of Robert E. Lee.
“And that’s Donald Trump.”
She zealously parrots his contention that there’s no evidence of anything untoward between his campaign
and Russia, dismissing his hapless namesake’s infamous meeting in Trump Tower with a Russian emissary as “pretty standard campaign operating procedure.”
She edits out the revelation that George Papadopoulos — once named by Trump himself
as an important adviser to the campaign — was trying to coordinate with Moscow.
It hit me this week, around the time when Sarah Huckabee Sanders was blithely seconding
Chief of Staff John Kelly’s Civil War revisionism, that I missed Sean Spicer.