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dajoki

(10,678 posts)
Mon Nov 25, 2019, 09:24 AM Nov 2019

Self-confessed liar Sarah Sanders says: 'I don't like being called a liar'

Self-confessed liar Sarah Sanders says: 'I don't like being called a liar'
Trump’s ex-press secretary says: ‘I was attacked for everything’
Sanders admitted Comey statement was ‘founded on nothing’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/25/sarah-sanders-self-confessed-liar-says-i-dont-like-being-called-a-liar?

Sarah Sanders, the former White House press secretary who admitted to Robert Mueller that she lied to reporters, told the New York Times: “I don’t like being called a liar.”

<<snip>>

She told the Times: “There are two types of people who run for office. People that are called and people that just want to be a senator or governor. I feel like I’ve been called.”

Sanders seems to be targeting the governorship in 2022, when Asa Hutchinson’s time is up.

“It’s the role I’ve been pushed into,” Sanders said. “I wouldn’t want to do that if I wasn’t the right person to fit what the state needed at that time.”

<<snip>>

Sanders also discussed her treatment by the press, opponents of Trump (including those who famously asked her to leave a restaurant in Virginia) and a comedian at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

“I was attacked for everything, not just my performance,” Sanders said. “I was called a fat soccer mom, my kids were threatened, my life was threatened. It was a lot. I hate harping on it, but to be in the position I’m in and to have Secret Service, that’s not normal.”

After a pause, the Times said, Sanders added: “I don’t like being called a liar. The other stuff bothered me far less.”

Discussing Trump’s prospects for re-election, Sanders said she intended to help with the campaign, which, should Trump win or lose, would help her own ambitions: “If he wins, there’s a solid base and people will come in and be helpful. If he loses, people will be angry and they will want to rally around Trump people.”

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NRaleighLiberal

(60,015 posts)
2. wow, how little self awareness. if she didn't constantly lie she
Mon Nov 25, 2019, 09:34 AM
Nov 2019

would not have been called a liar.

We need to name things accurately. She is a liar.

Docreed2003

(16,863 posts)
3. "Been called"
Mon Nov 25, 2019, 09:52 AM
Nov 2019

Hogwash evangelical gibberish to suggest that somehow "God" has "called" her to run for public office

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
5. Wow, she is completely delusional. Like not even dealing with reality at all.
Mon Nov 25, 2019, 10:21 AM
Nov 2019

Not only does she think she was honest, she believes she was "called" to run for Governor. These religious nutcases can talk themselves into anything all the while telling themselves that "God" is guiding them and telling them what to do.

Vogon_Glory

(9,118 posts)
6. If our usual crew of well-meaning Progressives could pause from shooting themselves
Mon Nov 25, 2019, 10:24 AM
Nov 2019

in the foot, maybe some clever, snarky Democrat should be given headway to post billboards and ads featuring Proverbs 12:22 where Bible bangers can see them.

“The Lord detests lying lips, but He delights in people who are trustworthy.”

Johnny2X2X

(19,066 posts)
7. She was the spokesperson for a regime trying to end American Democracy
Mon Nov 25, 2019, 10:30 AM
Nov 2019

She knew what she was doing, she is trying to take our country down and turn it into Russia or Turkey. Fuck her.

struggle4progress

(118,295 posts)
13. Her unknown successor has some big shoes to fill when it comes to blatant falsehoods
Mon Nov 25, 2019, 11:44 AM
Nov 2019

BY BESS LEVIN
JUNE 13, 2019

... Denying knowledge of Trump’s in-office hush-money payoffs, despite the fact that Trump himself admitted to them;

Claiming that Trump had created far more jobs for African Americans than Obama, when, in reality, Obama created four times as many as Trump;

Insisting, with a straight face, that her boss had never “promoted or encouraged violence,” seemingly forgetting the time Trump told supporters at a rally, of a protester who’d been ejected, “I’d like to punch him in the face”; or the time he told a crowd in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, “If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously, okay. Just knock the hell — I promise you I will pay for the legal fees, I promise”; or the time he openly fantasized about “Second Amendment people” preventing the appointment of liberal judges; or the time he instructed police officers to knock suspects’ heads against the side of their squad cars ...

And, of course who could forget the time she created an elaborate yarn about how she’d heard from “countless…individuals who work at the FBI who said they were very happy” with Trump’s decision to fire James Comey, in an attempt to make the story that the firing was all about agency morale stick, and had nothing whatsoever to do with the Russia investigation. Which, of course, she admitted was a total lie during her interview with Special Counsel Robert Mueller ...

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/06/sarah-sanders-leaving-white-house

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