Mueller Report: Sanders Admitted To Lying To Media

One of the least surprising revelations:

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders acknowledged to investigators with special counsel Robert Mueller’s team that she misled reporters when she insisted in May 2017 that “countless” FBI agents had lost confidence in former Director James Comey leading up to his dismissal.

The special counsel’s report, released Thursday, cited Sanders’s multiple false statements to reporters as part of its review of whether President Trump obstructed justice in firing Comey. Sanders told investigators that her misstatements were a “slip of the tongue,” and that the claims were not founded on anything.

Democrats in Congress aren’t smart enough to understand the President’s tax returns and probably don’t even understand how to do their own… https://t.co/wooGn3jVp8

— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) April 15, 2019