Twitter Catches Trump Spokeswoman Spinning Alternative Facts About Comey (VIDEO/TWEETS)

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Darrell Lucus
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For three days, Donald Trump had us believe that he fired FBI Director James Comey after Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein slammed Comey’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. That line didn’t pass the smell test, in large part because Trump himself loudly applauded Comey’s unprecedented decision to tell Congress that the FBI was looking into emails that could potentially be relevant to the investigation. Trump only reversed himself after The Washington Post revealed that he had already decided to fire Comey regardless of what Sessions and Rosenstein recommended.


But it turns out that Trump isn’t the only one who seems to be talking out of both sides of his mouth about Comey. Think Progress’ Aaron Rupar discovered that the White House spokeswoman responsible for parroting Trump’s initial line on Comey for much of the week joined her boss in standing up and applauding the Comey Letter during the campaign.

With Press Secretary Sean Spicer on reserve duty, most of the responsibility for sharing the then-official White House line on Comey’s firing fell to his deputy, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. On Wednesday, Sanders told reporters that when Trump read the memo from Rosenstein, the scales fell from his eyes. Watch here, via Raw Story.

Sanders claimed that the memo from Rosenstein revealed that Comey had committed numerous “atrocities” in the course of the email investigation, and in the process “circumvented the chain of command” at the DOJ.

But Sanders took a different line when word got out about Comey’s letter in October, while she was serving as a senior adviser to the Trump campaign. Hours after news of the Comey Letter broke, Sanders was positively giddy about it.

The day after the letter broke, Sanders called out the Hillary campaign for criticizing the timing of Comey’s letter.

And yet, on Wednesday, Sanders put Comey on blast for committing “atrocities.” When called out for how different this line was from the standing ovation the Trump campaign gave Comey after the letter broke, Sanders claimed–with a straight face–that Trump was speaking as a candidate at the time. Um, Sarah? The facts haven’t changed since then.

Sanders has been involved in politics for most of her adult life. She is the daughter of former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, and spent most of her teenage years in the Arkansas governor’s mansion. She worked on her father’s last gubernatorial campaign, and also held senior positions in her father’s 2008 and 2016 presidential bids. Additionally, she’s due to turn 35 in August. In other words, this is one person who should know that in the political world, Twitter never forgets. Apparently she doesn’t. Even more telling–as I write this on Saturday night, those tweets are still live.


There was a lot of talk that Sanders could potentially replace Spicer as press secretary, though her father has knocked that talk down for now. But even without that to consider, this discovery by ThinkProgress should take Sanders out of the running.

(featured image courtesy Sanders’ Twitter)

Darrell Lucus
Darrell is a 30-something graduate of the University of North Carolina who considers himself a journalist of the old school. An attempt to turn him into a member of the religious right in college only succeeded in turning him into the religious right's worst nightmare--a charismatic Christian who is an unapologetic liberal. His desire to stand up for those who have been scared into silence only increased when he survived an abusive three-year marriage. You may know him on Daily Kos as Christian Dem in NC. Follow him on Twitter @DarrellLucus or connect with him on Facebook. Click here to buy Darrell a Mello Yello.

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