Former White House spokesperson Sarah Huckleberry-Slanders Sanders said in various interviews Tuesday that unflattering stories that have come out about President Trump over the last four years are all the result of “disgruntled employees” and that hers is the only “honest account,” ABC News reports.
“[Look…] It’s really simple,” Sanders said. “I think mine is actually the honest account. You’re looking at people who have left as disgruntled employees, people who have tried to push their own agenda.”
Sanders’ stint as Press Secretary was marked by a period of very few media briefings, but the ones she held were routinely derided as full of lies that backed up fallacious statements made by Trump. Her book about her time in the White House was released today.
While appearing on The View, Sanders had an exchange with Meghan McCain about Trump’s views of the military. “There’s no denying the fact that not only did Donald Trump dislike your father, your father disliked the president,” Sanders said. “I’m not saying that there weren’t some moments that were heated, that were not of the highest level of respect, but when it comes to who this president is, at his heart, and how he feels about the men and women of our armed services, I can say for my own experience he has a great level of respect.” [You should check Li’l Joey Concha’s column on TheHill for more complete coverage of “The View.”]
Despite claims otherwise, Sanders said she was not at the incident in Paris where Trump alleged demeaned Americans soldiers, KIA, WIA and MIA as “fools” and “stupid.”
Sanders has been rumored to be considering a run for the Arkansas governor’s office, a post her father, multiple times failed presidential candidate-turned-radio talk show host Mike Huckleberry Huckabee held for eight years until 2007, saying, “We’ll see.”
Sanders is probably best known for becoming a cause célèbre after comedian Michelle Wolf made a joke at the 2018 White House Correspondents Dinner about Sanders’ overuse of the “smoky eye” make-up style, a joke which made infamously self-victimized republicans more aggrieved. Sanders was sitting in for the infamously self-victimized President Trump, who would not attend the dinner because someone would make fun of him.