In May 2017, around the time Special Counsel Robert Mueller was appointed to lead the investigation into Russian election interference, Sarah Huckabee Sanders stood at the podium in the White House’s press room and … well, apparently she lied, Mueller’s newly released report reveals.
On that day, President Donald Trump’s press secretary told the room of reporters that the White House had heard from “countless members of the FBI” who, according to her, had lost faith in former FBI director James Comey. The remark was made in the wake of Comey’s termination, and in response to a reporter’s statement that FBI staff were apparently upset to lose him. Here’s video of the moment, if you’d like to see it yourself:
And deep in Volume II of Mueller’s 400-plus-page document, the special counsel writes that Sanders admitted that this was a lie. The report reads:
According to the report, Sanders later told investigators that her comment was a “slip of the tongue,” and that a similar statement made “in the heat of the moment” was also not founded on anything. Shocking!