(The actions starts around the 6:04 mark)
Here is a report from Think Progress:
During the White House press briefing Thursday afternoon, Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders didn’t apologize on behalf of the president or try to walk back his tweets, which came after Brzezinski criticized him on her show. Instead, Huckabee Sanders defended Trump and portrayed the president and his staff as the real victims.
“The president is pushing back against people who attack him day after day after day. Where is the outrage on that?” Huckabee Sanders said. “The only person that I see a war on is this president and everybody that works for him.”
(By "attack" Sanders means challenging the things Trump says with facts, or talking about his low poll numbers. Which is what Joe and Mika did this morning.)
Later, Huckabee Sanders was asked why Trump decided it would be wise to lash out at all. She said, “I don’t think you can expect someone to be personally attacked day after day, minute by minute and sit back.”
“Look, the American people elected a fighter, they didn’t elect somebody to sit back and do nothing,” she said. “They knew what they were getting when the voted for Donald Trump and he won overwhelmingly.”
(That's fake news by the way. Hillary beat him by just under 3 million votes.)
Huckabee Sanders also claimed Trump’s tweets aren’t beneath the dignity of the office of the president, saying that Trump “shows [dignity] every day in the decisions that he’s making, the focus and the priorities he’s laid out in his agenda, but he’s not going to sit back and be attacked by the liberal media, Hollywood elites, and when they hit him he’s going to hit back.”
(Trump shows dignity every day in the decisions that he's making? When does that happen? If that were not enough Sanders also added this.)
Huckabee Sanders falsely claimed that Trump has “in no way, form, or fashion promoted or encouraged violence.”
That clearly ridiculous statement was aggressively challenge by the Washington Post, which went into great detail pointing out multiple examples of Trump fomenting violence during his campaign rallies, threatening to use violence himself, and even offering to pay the legal fees of those who did use violence on his behalf.
In one of the most bizarre moments from this press conference, somebody asked Sanders if she would tell her children that Trump's behaviors were okay, and she responded by saying that when it comes to role models she "points to God."
To me that was one of the strangest cop outs I have ever witnessed.
In fact this entire press briefing was so far down the rabbit hole that I would not have been even remotely surprised to have witnessed Sanders fielding a question from the Mad Hatter of the Cheshire Cat.
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Here is a report from Think Progress:
During the White House press briefing Thursday afternoon, Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders didn’t apologize on behalf of the president or try to walk back his tweets, which came after Brzezinski criticized him on her show. Instead, Huckabee Sanders defended Trump and portrayed the president and his staff as the real victims.
“The president is pushing back against people who attack him day after day after day. Where is the outrage on that?” Huckabee Sanders said. “The only person that I see a war on is this president and everybody that works for him.”
(By "attack" Sanders means challenging the things Trump says with facts, or talking about his low poll numbers. Which is what Joe and Mika did this morning.)
Later, Huckabee Sanders was asked why Trump decided it would be wise to lash out at all. She said, “I don’t think you can expect someone to be personally attacked day after day, minute by minute and sit back.”
“Look, the American people elected a fighter, they didn’t elect somebody to sit back and do nothing,” she said. “They knew what they were getting when the voted for Donald Trump and he won overwhelmingly.”
(That's fake news by the way. Hillary beat him by just under 3 million votes.)
Huckabee Sanders also claimed Trump’s tweets aren’t beneath the dignity of the office of the president, saying that Trump “shows [dignity] every day in the decisions that he’s making, the focus and the priorities he’s laid out in his agenda, but he’s not going to sit back and be attacked by the liberal media, Hollywood elites, and when they hit him he’s going to hit back.”
(Trump shows dignity every day in the decisions that he's making? When does that happen? If that were not enough Sanders also added this.)
Huckabee Sanders falsely claimed that Trump has “in no way, form, or fashion promoted or encouraged violence.”
That clearly ridiculous statement was aggressively challenge by the Washington Post, which went into great detail pointing out multiple examples of Trump fomenting violence during his campaign rallies, threatening to use violence himself, and even offering to pay the legal fees of those who did use violence on his behalf.
In one of the most bizarre moments from this press conference, somebody asked Sanders if she would tell her children that Trump's behaviors were okay, and she responded by saying that when it comes to role models she "points to God."
To me that was one of the strangest cop outs I have ever witnessed.
In fact this entire press briefing was so far down the rabbit hole that I would not have been even remotely surprised to have witnessed Sanders fielding a question from the Mad Hatter of the Cheshire Cat.
Source http://ift.tt/2up6axm
