White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders forcefully attacked the entire dossier in a news conference Friday. The rumored tape may be the rare bit of White House-branded “fake news” that is, in fact, fake. Another challenge for the White House is the sheer number of seemingly outlandish stories involving Trump that turn out to be rooted in fact. And in a duo of tweets Friday morning, the president called Comey “a proven LEAKER & LIAR” and “an untruthful slime ball.”“It was my great honor to fire James Comey!” Trump concluded. “The lesson for me during the White House years was that once a rumor gets some traction, it’s almost impossible to fix it, even if it is false,” he said.

Source: Washington Post April 13, 2018 23:37 UTC