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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Slams April Ryan When Asked About Her Lying: She Said ‘I Should Be Decapitated’
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has activated a full spin cycle.
And as usual, it’s full of lies.
In a Friday CNN appearance, after Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report showed that Sanders admitted to making a false claim to the media, American Urban Radio Networks correspondent April Ryan declared that Sanders should be “fired, end of story.”
And then she expanded with what was a very obvious figure of speech, saying that “when there is a lack of credibility there … you have to start lopping the heads off.”
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Sanders responded to those comments in a Monday appearance on Fox News, though in a seemingly deliberate misinterpretation, said she had “certainly never had somebody say that I should be decapitated” before.
Sanders also listed several other examples of what she called “harassment” by the “liberal media,” though didn’t mention how a year ago, she defended President Trump’s declaration that congressional Democrats were “treasonous.”
The crime of treason is technically still punishable by death, but as Sanders put it last February, Trump was “clearly joking.”
.@PressSec and @foxandfriends are pretending @AprilDRyan literally proposed that Sanders be decapitated — she used a figure of speech to say Sanders should be fired for lying about lying — and are using that as a pretext to attack the liberal media pic.twitter.com/l5NQyfQdkM
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 22, 2019
In the Mueller report, Sanders said her claim that “countless members of the FBI” had lost confidence in its then-director James Comey, prompting President Trump to fire him, was “not founded on anything.” She said the misstatement was a “slip of the tongue.”
After Sanders’ Fox appearance, Ryan retweeted a video of and doubled down on her comments.
"Not only does she not have credibility, she lied. She out and out lied…the American people can’t trust her," says @AprilDRyan of Press Sec. Sarah Sanders.
"She should be let go. She should be fired, end of story…it’s fire me Thursday or fire me Good Friday. She needs to go." pic.twitter.com/M0whZiHg1l— OutFrontCNN (@OutFrontCNN) April 19, 2019
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