WASHINGTON — White House press secretary Sarah Sanders tried to do damage control on her credibility Friday, insisting that she hadn’t intentionally misled the American public about FBI Director James Comey’s firing despite telling the special counsel that her claim that “countless” agents had lost confidence in him was not founded on anything. Sanders, who told special counsel Robert Mueller that her comment during a White House press briefing in May 2017 had been a “slip of the tongue” made in the “heat of the moment,” claimed in a series of television interviews that the sentiment behind her words — that many rank-and-file FBI agents had lost confidence in Comey and contacted the White House to say so — remained true. “If you look at what I said, I said the ‘slip of the tongue’ was in using the word ‘countless,’ but there were a number of FBI, both former and current, that agreed with the president’s decision, and they’ve continued to speak out and say that and send notice to the White House of that agreement with the president’s decision,” she said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “I said that it was in the heat of the moment, meaning it wasn’t a scripted thing,” she added on “CBS This Morning.” ”But the big takeaway here is that the sentiment is 100% accurate.” Sanders is among scores of current and former White House officials who were interviewed by Mueller’s team during the nearly two-year investigation that examined whether Trump’s campaign coordinated with Russia during the 2016 election and whether the president tried to interfere with the inquiry. Mueller concluded his investigation last month and Attorney General William Barr released a redacted version of the special counsel’s report on Thursday.
Sanders Goes On Offensive Defending Credibility After Mueller Report
Darlene Superville, The Associated Press, Denver Post: Politics
Fri, 04/19/2019 - 10:59pm
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