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Post by Admin on Jul 13, 2019 18:17:23 GMT
Former White House press secretary and mooted Arkansas gubernatorial candidate Sarah Huckabee Sanders was seen lunching at Midtown power eatery Avra Madison on Thursday with intrepid Trump supporters Bill White and husband Bryan Eure. A source told us, “Sanders is in town exploring a plethora of opportunities being offered.” She was seen leaving Fox News as well as meeting with a book publisher, reportedly penning a tome about her time at the White House while mulling a 2022 run. The spy added of the lunch, “They were overheard talking about Trump’s initiative to decriminalize being gay in over 27 countries. That is not fake news.”
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Post by Admin on Nov 25, 2019 18:58:05 GMT
At a White House briefing on 10 May 2017, Sanders told reporters “countless members of the FBI” had told her they had lost confidence in James Comey, the FBI director fired by Trump shortly before.
Mueller, the special counsel, was appointed in the aftermath of Comey’s firing to investigate Russian election interference and links between Trump and Moscow.
In the words of his report, released in April 2019: “Sanders told this office that her reference to hearing from ‘countless members of the FBI’ was a ‘slip of the tongue’.
“She also recalled that her statement in a separate press interview that rank-and-file FBI agents had lost confidence in Comey was a comment she made ‘in the heat of the moment’ that was not founded on anything.”
Sanders, Trump’s second press secretary, presided over the apparent death of the press briefing and left the White House in June this year. She is now home in Arkansas, where her father Mike Huckabee was governor, a post from which he mounted two runs for the Republican presidential nomination.
She told the Times: “There are two types of people who run for office. People that are called and people that just want to be a senator or governor. I feel like I’ve been called.”
Sanders seems to be targeting the governorship in 2022, when Asa Hutchinson’s time is up.
“It’s the role I’ve been pushed into,” Sanders said. “I wouldn’t want to do that if I wasn’t the right person to fit what the state needed at that time.”
Sanders also told the Times that at local events, she was “just excited to have people clap when I come up to a podium. It’s very different from what I’m used to.”
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Post by Admin on Dec 13, 2019 22:50:58 GMT
Former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders weighs in on House Democrats' impeachment push, and Senator Mitch McConnell's exclusive interview on 'Hannity' Thursday night. #FoxNews
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Post by Admin on Feb 8, 2023 4:48:02 GMT
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders delivered the Republican address to the nation in response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech Tuesday night.
In her remarks, Sanders recalled a story from Christmas in 2018, when she accompanied then-President Donald Trump on a secret trip to Iraq to celebrate the holiday with American troops serving overseas. Sanders said one soldier came up to her and commented that as press secretary, she had a hard job.
“I told him, ‘What I do is nothing. You take bombs and bullets. That’s a tough job,’” Sanders said. In response, the soldier gave her a patch from his uniform as a “sign of ultimate respect.”
“Overwhelmed with emotion, and speechless, I just hugged him, with tears in my eyes and a grateful heart for heroes who keep us free,” Sanders said.
The address focused on what Huckabee Sanders characterized as the stark differences between Biden and the Republican Party.
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Post by Admin on Feb 8, 2023 18:43:01 GMT
AFTER PRESIDENT JOE Biden’s calls for unity in his annual State of the Union address, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders stoked right-wing grievances in her official Republican response on Tuesday night.
Sanders went down the list of Republican complaints: A president and administration ensconced in “woke fantasies”; the constant siege of “a left-wing culture war”; a country in which “our children are taught to hate one another on account of their race, but not to love one another or our great country.” This is life in the “radical left’s America,” Sanders declared as she delivered the remarks from Arkansas, where she entered the governor’s mansion just last month.
The 40-year-old Sanders served as former president Donald Trump’s longest-serving White House press secretary. She ascended to the governorship by showing adequate support to her former boss, if not undying fealty. (“I love the president,” Sanders told Fox News last month when asked if she would endorse Trump’s 2024 campaign, demurring to offer more.) She recounted Trump only in fond reminiscences during Tuesday’s speech, eschewing the topic of Trump’s attempt at reelection by attacking Biden’s. “At 40, I’m the youngest governor in the country, and at 80, he’s the oldest president in American history,” she said before offering this ambiguous conclusion: “It’s time for a new generation of Republican leadership.”
Even if Sanders meant to suggest Trump should no longer lead the party, her speech retreaded the same grievances her former boss favors. “Every day we are told that we must partake in their rituals, salute their flags, and worship their false idols,” Sanders declared, without making clear which rituals, flags, or idols to which she referred. “The dividing line in America is no longer between right or left. The choice is between normal or crazy,” she added.
She accused the Biden administration of “doubling down on crazy” and called the president “unfit to serve as commander in chief.” For contrast, she touted the record of her former boss in dubious soundbites reminiscent of her days spinning Trump’s presidency from the White House briefing room. “President Biden inherited the fastest economic recovery on record” and “the most secure border in history,” she said at one point. “But over the last two years, Democrats destroyed it all.”
The governorship is Sanders’ first elected office. It’s an enormous jump in responsibility for someone who served in a White House communications shop, which offers little practical training for being a chief executive. But Sanders’ rapid ascent and selection as her party’s spokesperson on the night Democrats take their victory lap suggests, perhaps, that throwing red meat to the base is, in fact, what it takes to succeed in the modern GOP.
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