White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders purposefully misunderstood reporter and CNN analyst April Ryan’s comments from Thursday, who used colorful language to express her belief that Sanders’ proven lying, as evidenced by the Mueller report, should result in her ouster.
“I have had reporters say a lot of things about me. They’ve said I should be choked. They’ve said I deserve a lifetime of harassment,” Sanders said on Fox and Friends, speaking over a rousing musical performance at the White House Easter egg roll. “I certainly never had anybody say I should be decapitated — this takes us to a new low even for the liberal media. It once again proves why this journalist isn’t taken seriously.”
Sanders claims to understand April Ryan’s comments that she should be fired as a threat of “decapitation” pic.twitter.com/9eJBykW0wR
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Ryan’s comments, made because of the detail in the Mueller report where Sanders admitted that her statement to the White House press corps about FBI officials losing faith in former agency director James Comey was baseless.
“Not only does she not have credibility, she lied,” Ryan said during a segment on CNN. “She out and out lied. And the people – the American people can’t trust her. They can’t trust what’s said from the President’s mouthpiece, spokesperson from the people’s house. Therefore, she should be let go. She should be fired, end of story. When there is a lack of credibility there, you have to start and start lopping the heads off. It’s Fire-Me Thursday or Fire-Me Good Friday. She needs to go.”
