For 94 days, the outgoing White House press secretary gave no press briefing in the press room just a few steps from the press office that she nominally ran. Speaking the day after the president fired then FBI director James Comey, Sanders told the media that “countless members of the FBI” – representing what she called “the rank-and-file of the FBI” – had lost confidence in Comey. Back in 2018, several otherwise sensible journalists rose nobly to defend Sanders after Wolf took apart the press secretary at the White House correspondents’ dinner. But that was before Mueller revealed that Sanders lied to all of them shamelessly about the biggest news about Comey. This would be abnormal for a former press secretary, but there was nothing normal about Sanders.

Source: The Guardian June 14, 2019 12:44 UTC