A co-owner of the Red Hen restaurant, the Lexington, Virginia, eatery that booted White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders nearly a year ago for her role in the Trump administration, spoke out Tuesday about the slew of hate mail that followed. In a Washington Post op-ed, Stephanie Wilkinson recalled the moment last June when she decided to ask Sanders to leave. “We couldn’t do it.”Wilkinson recalled taking Sanders aside and suggesting she exit the restaurant, a request that Wilkinson said was honored “politely.” Sanders “never showed any sign of outrage, or even much surprise,” Wilkinson wrote. “Within 24 hours, the restaurant’s phone line was hacked, my staff and I were doxxed, and threats to our lives and families and property were pouring in through every available channel,” Wilkinson wrote. “But soon he was forced to heft large white plastic totes overflowing with letters and packages up to my door.

Source: Huffington Post May 14, 2019 22:41 UTC