As former FBI Director James Comey implored us to fight for our democracy, the White House made jokes about secret taping under the couches.
Instead of being concerned about Russia’s interference in our election, which is a very serious attack on our democracy, White House Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said she had no idea if there was a taping system in the White House and then made a joke of it, saying she’d look under the couches.
Since the Trump White House is refusing to honor the transparency of on camera briefings and are holding them off camera not allowing audio to be used on TV or radio, here are the tweets:
?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!!?!?!?!? Q: Is there a White House taping system? @SHSanders45 "I have no idea"
To get more stories like this, subscribe to our newsletter The Daily.
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) June 8, 2017
Asked if she would look into whether there is a secret Oval Office taping system @SHSanders45: "Sure, I'll try to look under the couches."
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) June 8, 2017
Huckabee, who already compromised her own integrity and credibility by claiming President Trump doesn’t lie, claimed there was a tradition of keeping the briefings off camera and hiding the audio. There is not, this is a lie.
"As a reminder, as is tradition," Sanders says.
(No such tradition exists.) https://t.co/MYq77YMgCR
— Steven Portnoy (@stevenportnoy) June 8, 2017
.@SHSanders45 tops briefing with new ground rules:
"audio should not be used on television or radio"
— Jared Rizzi (@JaredRizzi) June 8, 2017
This is how the Trump White House is approaching an ongoing attack on the USA with sarcastic jokes.
The one way that the Trump White House could have made the Comey testimony was by blowing it off and treating the Russia scandal like a joke.
Listen to Sarah on the PoliticusUSA Pod on The Daily newsletter podcast here.
Sarah has been credentialed to cover President Barack Obama, then VP Joe Biden, 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and exclusively interviewed Speaker Nancy Pelosi multiple times and exclusively covered her first home appearance after the first impeachment of then President Donald Trump.
Sarah is two-time Telly award winning video producer and a member of the Society of Professional Journalists.
Connect with Sarah on Post, Mastodon @PoliticusSarah@Journa.Host, & Twitter.
