Mueller Report singles out sarah huckabee sanders for lying.

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3 winners and 3 losers from the Mueller report

Let’s do this.

By Dylan Matthews and Zack Beauchamp Apr 18, 2019, 5:50pm ED

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Loser: Sarah Sanders

The Mueller report points out numerous instances in which Donald Trump himself lied — no surprise there. But it also includes several especially galling moments when White House press secretary Sarah Sanders did his lying for him.

In one case, Sanders effectively admitted that she lied when she claimed the rank and file of the FBI wanted James Comey gone:



“Not founded on anything” sounds pretty bad! But that’s not all. There was also the time Sanders denied that Trump had dictated his son Donald Jr.’s initial, highly inaccurate statement about the Trump Tower meeting, when he did in fact dictate it:



In a third instance, Sanders repeated a lie told to her by Trump, specifically that he wasn’t considering firing Mueller when he really was; it’s less clear in this case than the other ones, especially the first, that she knew she was spreading a falsehood, but it’s still very much not great:



Being press secretary is a tough job, especially when, as is often the case with presidents, your boss is a liar. But it’s rare to have a special counsel call you out for spreading falsehoods on three separate occasions. If nothing else, the report should force reporters to downgrade their confidence in anything Sanders says as press secretary. Ideally, they’d stop repeating her statements as fact altogether.

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https://www.vox.com/2019/4/18/18485546/mueller-report-release-winners-losers