Sarah Huckabee Sanders had n answer when ABC’s Jon Karl asked her how anyone can trust anything they hear from Trump and the White House when the president has such a blatant disregard for the truth.
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Karl: Taking a broader view of this, can I ask you, when the president so often says things that turn out not to be true, when the president and the white house show what appears to be a blatant disregard for the truth, how are the American people to trust or believe what is said here or what is said by the president?
Sanders: We get the very best information that we have at the time. Do I that every single day and will continue to do that every day that I’m in this position.
Karl: The president when the story firsthand said — came out that Ty Cobb would be leaving and Emmitt flood was coming in, president said it was fake news, said it was not true. He just when he talks about the prisoners in North Korea, he said the previous administration had been — failed to get them two of them were taken prisoner while Donald Trump was president. Obviously the totally conflicting statements on the stormy Daniels payment. These are statements that are just not true.
Sanders: When it comes to North Korea, I think you can also look at Otto Warmbier was detained. When it comes to the last incident you mentioned, as mayor Giuliani stated, this something not something initially known but later learned. Again, we get the best information possible at the time and we’re going to continue to do that every single day.
Karl: The president paid Michael Cohen back in February of last year. I mean in the reimbursement was happening long before the president was asked about this.
Sanders: Is that a question or —
Karl: I’m saying, how could he not know he was paying him back?
Sanders: Again, I’m not going to get into the details and I would refer you back to the statement, pretty lengthy statement, made by Giuliani both last night and this morning as well as the president’s tweets where they both talk about that.
People are tired of being lied to by this president and his White House every single day. Karl was asking about credibility. When a president makes false statements by the bushel, he has no credibility. When his press secretary makes false statements every day that she speaks to the press, she has no credibility. Huckabee Sanders got defensive when asked during the briefing about her own false Stormy Daniels payment statements, and she immediately got defensive.
There is no point in press briefings or having a press secretary if that person is going to repeat false information as fact.
The American people can’t trust Huckabee Sanders, Trump, or anyone in the administration, and it is nice to see some in the press finally waking up to this reality.
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Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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