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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu May 3, 2018, 09:53 AM May 2018

Sarah Sanders is now refusing to answer questions about why she lied about Stormy Daniels payout

Source: RawStory




BRAD REED
03 MAY 2018 AT 09:11 ET

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders over the past several months has made multiple false statements about President Donald Trump’s knowledge of whether attorney Michael Cohen paid off adult film star Stormy Daniels.

In the wake of Rudy Giuliani’s bombshell admission that Trump personally reimbursed Cohen for the $131,000 payout to Daniels, reporters on Thursday asked Sanders why she hadn’t told the truth about the deal.

Sanders, however, flatly refused to answer any questions.




Phillip then quoted Sanders during a press briefing in March in which she said that Trump had absolutely no knowledge of Cohen’s payments to Daniels.




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Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/sarah-sanders-hides-behind-pending-litigation-get-questions-lies-stormy-daniels-payout/
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Sarah Sanders is now refusing to answer questions about why she lied about Stormy Daniels payout (Original Post) DonViejo May 2018 OP
Beautiful!! Ferrets are Cool May 2018 #1
Maybe she was out of eyeshadow. n/t whopis01 May 2018 #45
A whole new approach to "I cannot tell a lie" GusBob May 2018 #2
+ 1000 S.E. TN Liberal May 2018 #4
"Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs" malthaussen May 2018 #18
Karma Freethinker65 May 2018 #3
Cue Stephanie Miller's song SCVDem May 2018 #5
Hope she... Mike Nelson May 2018 #6
trump should pay HER $130,000 to keep quiet! George II May 2018 #7
Would Sarah Huck sue Donald for sexual non-harassment? keithbvadu2 May 2018 #23
Let's (which erroneously means let US) stop calling them untruths. pangaia May 2018 #8
"Alternative facts" keithbvadu2 May 2018 #26
Erroneously? RandomAccess May 2018 #51
Oh, I just mean. umm.. pangaia May 2018 #60
Oh, got it RandomAccess May 2018 #62
Stay classy, Sarah Bayard May 2018 #9
It's hard to convince someone of something when they are paid to believe the opposite... Javaman May 2018 #10
Hey, roscoeroscoe May 2018 #36
"It is difficult Bob Loblaw May 2018 #59
I'm with you on both. pangaia May 2018 #61
Why isn't anyone bringing up leftynyc May 2018 #11
OUCH! keithbvadu2 May 2018 #24
They May Be Using Legal Retainer payments to Cover the Payments to Stormy Stallion May 2018 #25
Yep, and whether the payment was deducted as an expense. Big can of worms opened. nt Cognitive_Resonance May 2018 #57
Caught in her lies leads back to Michelle Wolf's jokes about her bucolic_frolic May 2018 #12
Wolf's appearance will be played over and over to show how on the mark she was rurallib May 2018 #16
There's been ongoing litigation for awhile Mz Pip May 2018 #13
Sanders said this in March: "I've had conversations with the president about this. There was no know riversedge May 2018 #14
Did she know Trump was lying to her? Renew Deal May 2018 #15
Sanders has lied multiple times about statements the president made that were documented on video. Nitram May 2018 #20
Once she steps off the press podium, they put her in a laserhaas May 2018 #50
Daddy told her that God told him that when Donnie lies, it doesn't count LiberalLovinLug May 2018 #54
Bc he stopped sinning when he became pResident, as per sprinkleeninow May 2018 #63
Now, now, we mustn't put pressure on a wife and mother mcar May 2018 #17
Michelle Wolf's jabs struck home. Sanders is now a little self-conscious when she has to lie to the Nitram May 2018 #19
Good roscoeroscoe May 2018 #39
How much of her press conferences are played on Fox? Hortensis May 2018 #21
republicans are role models for their children - who will grow up liars Achilleaze May 2018 #22
She is such a liar.....and going out that way!!! onecent May 2018 #27
They are all liars! And people who voted for this POS were misled ... SWBTATTReg May 2018 #28
Bombastic Coward. JDC May 2018 #29
Stayed too long in the job. Corgigal May 2018 #30
The only thing I can think of (other than she's full of hate, too)... C Moon May 2018 #31
Maybe trying to please her daddy? Lars39 May 2018 #32
I Think That SDJay May 2018 #35
Not even Trump's organization laserhaas May 2018 #49
The only jobs she's ever had before this WH gig is working on her daddy's campaign. politicaljunkie41910 May 2018 #53
Just like Michelle Wolf said at the WHCD, Huckaby Sanders "burn the facts". GAH. iluvtennis May 2018 #33
What did she know and when did she know it? I think cheetolini lies to Sarah. marble falls May 2018 #34
And that is how Trump gets everyone around him in trouble. MGKrebs May 2018 #37
Seriously, did anything like scandals we see in this administration happen with Obama? Victor_c3 May 2018 #38
She is not a press secretary Mr. Ected May 2018 #40
Hey Sarah, can I call you Sarah.......................your 'A" LIAR and your team occupying turbinetree May 2018 #41
But it was apparently OK to comment on it, as long as the story held together. BobTheSubgenius May 2018 #42
William of Occam says: jayschool2013 May 2018 #43
Who woulda thought that people who lie thousands of times a year cungar2000 May 2018 #44
As has been said, this is coming from someone who makes her Enoki33 May 2018 #46
Anybody else smell those facts burning? ::sniff:: byronius May 2018 #47
It's only a lie - if she knew what the truth was. laserhaas May 2018 #48
Bet Sarah is longing for the time when she got sympathy for a comedian making fun of her makeup Freethinker65 May 2018 #52
Well.... THAT'S embarrassing. Adrahil May 2018 #55
or this LiberalLovinLug May 2018 #56
And, then along came rudy toot tootie.. Cha May 2018 #58

GusBob

(7,286 posts)
2. A whole new approach to "I cannot tell a lie"
Thu May 3, 2018, 09:54 AM
May 2018

Don't ask me any questions, and I wont tell you any lies

malthaussen

(17,065 posts)
18. "Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs"
Thu May 3, 2018, 10:34 AM
May 2018

That's been around for a long time. The Google-machine sez Goldsmith introduced it in 1773, in "She Stoops to Conquer."

-- Mal

keithbvadu2

(36,360 posts)
23. Would Sarah Huck sue Donald for sexual non-harassment?
Thu May 3, 2018, 10:50 AM
May 2018

Would Sarah Huck sue Donald for sexual non-harassment?
.

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
60. Oh, I just mean. umm..
Thu May 3, 2018, 07:19 PM
May 2018

that we here at DU call them lies pretty much all the time.
it is often the news media et al that use all those nice softy terms like - mis-spoke, false statements, untruths, etc....

Javaman

(62,435 posts)
10. It's hard to convince someone of something when they are paid to believe the opposite...
Thu May 3, 2018, 10:19 AM
May 2018

she must get paid A LOT of money.

or...

she's just a willing liar.

I'm going with both.

Bob Loblaw

(1,900 posts)
59. "It is difficult
Thu May 3, 2018, 07:05 PM
May 2018

to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

-- Upton Sinclair

Stallion

(6,473 posts)
25. They May Be Using Legal Retainer payments to Cover the Payments to Stormy
Thu May 3, 2018, 10:52 AM
May 2018

so what Michael Cohen considered personal services payments- the Trump team will now claim were reimbursements for Stormy's payoffs. That's a slippery slope though if the checks don't match up. Once you start telling lies you have to lie even more. IRS will be interested if that was INCOME to Cohen though rather than reimbursement.

riversedge

(69,708 posts)
14. Sanders said this in March: "I've had conversations with the president about this. There was no know
Thu May 3, 2018, 10:26 AM
May 2018

Sarah steps in her own poop.



Abby D. Phillip
?Verified account @abbydphillip
2h2 hours ago

Abby D. Phillip Retweeted Abby D. Phillip

Sanders said this in March: "I've had conversations with the president about this. There was no knowledge of any payments from the president and he's denied all of these allegations."


Renew Deal

(81,801 posts)
15. Did she know Trump was lying to her?
Thu May 3, 2018, 10:27 AM
May 2018

It's an important question. And how does she feel about either him lying repeatedly or both of them doing it?

Nitram

(22,663 posts)
20. Sanders has lied multiple times about statements the president made that were documented on video.
Thu May 3, 2018, 10:45 AM
May 2018

She flatly denies he said things everyone knows he has said. I don't think we need to give Sanders the benefit of the doubt on this one. Her record of lying has been clear from her first day on the job.

 

laserhaas

(7,805 posts)
50. Once she steps off the press podium, they put her in a
Thu May 3, 2018, 01:52 PM
May 2018

padded cell.

No input = no knowledge of lying.

Just sayin....

Nitram

(22,663 posts)
19. Michelle Wolf's jabs struck home. Sanders is now a little self-conscious when she has to lie to the
Thu May 3, 2018, 10:42 AM
May 2018

press.

roscoeroscoe

(1,369 posts)
39. Good
Thu May 3, 2018, 11:54 AM
May 2018

Like the old Doonsbury comic, what do you do after you look into the mirror and say, well now to begin another day of lying to the American people?

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
21. How much of her press conferences are played on Fox?
Thu May 3, 2018, 10:46 AM
May 2018

Of course, they no doubt edit, but anyone have an estimate?

Needless to say, the midterms will be about turnout. The more demoralized, and less energized, the right is, the better for making that blue wave real.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
22. republicans are role models for their children - who will grow up liars
Thu May 3, 2018, 10:48 AM
May 2018

it is so sick that republicans are letting their perverted values around telling the truth poison the souls of their children

SWBTATTReg

(21,856 posts)
28. They are all liars! And people who voted for this POS were misled ...
Thu May 3, 2018, 10:55 AM
May 2018

because they were lied to, and deceived by our current liar-in-chief. When will it stop, this constant spew of toxic lies, gross deception, and serious missteps?

It doesn't surprise me that a lot of RUMP voters are white nationalists, and the like (or worse), who voted for RUMP and his gang of trash collectors, regardless of their actual qualifications in running anything. Bullies, all of them!

We need to kick them in the ass and get them out of office, and get someone in there and in Congress who knows how to work hard and do their job instead of going out and grabbing pu**y and then sticking us w/ a bill for services rendered. If these guys want to party, fine, but do on your own dime and time. This is fraud, period (paying off Stormy D. and hiding this from the voters (and, who else is out there?)).

Doesn't seem like anything else is being done 'for the country' but instead, everyone of RUMP's cronies are running around like chickens without their heads on, defending this POS/RUMP, from basically, everybody!!

Come on Mueller, things have been too quiet on your end...send a signal to the American people that Justice is still there...



Corgigal

(9,291 posts)
30. Stayed too long in the job.
Thu May 3, 2018, 11:22 AM
May 2018

Going to look like an adult joke. She should be next on Rachel Maddow's board.

C Moon

(12,188 posts)
31. The only thing I can think of (other than she's full of hate, too)...
Thu May 3, 2018, 11:33 AM
May 2018

is that Sanders is in neck deep with Russia, too. Otherwise, why the hell would she—or ANY of these people—continue to work beside that lying, cheating, racist, hate-filled, traitor bastard?

Lars39

(26,093 posts)
32. Maybe trying to please her daddy?
Thu May 3, 2018, 11:39 AM
May 2018

The Huckabees and Russian money, though...that’d be worth exploring.

SDJay

(1,089 posts)
35. I Think That
Thu May 3, 2018, 11:47 AM
May 2018

gives her too much credit. She's a useful idiot for Dump. Nothing more.

As far as why she works there, she obviously comes from a known family that supports Dump and given her character, or lack thereof, that's been revealed to the world, I don't know how many options she'd have if she left.

I can't imagine anyone would hire a mean, nasty, glowering, scowling and totally dishonest person for any job.

politicaljunkie41910

(3,335 posts)
53. The only jobs she's ever had before this WH gig is working on her daddy's campaign.
Thu May 3, 2018, 02:21 PM
May 2018

She's making $180,000 for standing up there each day making shit up as she goes along. She's got an office in the WH and I'm sure the folks back in Arkansas are envious that she's a celebrity. She attended Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas so I'm guessing she's probably not a Rhode Scholar. She gets to travel around the world to places she'd never have gone otherwise, and the media hangs on her every word. It's a good gig for anyone, if you can get it; but my guess is that it's the best job she could have ever hoped for, and they would have to drag her out of the WH cause she ain't going nowhere on her own.

MGKrebs

(8,138 posts)
37. And that is how Trump gets everyone around him in trouble.
Thu May 3, 2018, 11:51 AM
May 2018

I reckon she'll be gone soon. Her lawyer should be telling her to get out now before it gets any deeper.

Victor_c3

(3,557 posts)
38. Seriously, did anything like scandals we see in this administration happen with Obama?
Thu May 3, 2018, 11:54 AM
May 2018

I read very liberal leaning news feeds and this forum, so my news is a little biased, but did Obama have any sorts of scandals comparable to trump?

I can’t even begin to remember anything like this level of dysfunction of a presidential administration in my lifetime (FWIW, I was born in 1980). Maybe Nixon topped it, but that was a full decade earlier than I was alive.

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
40. She is not a press secretary
Thu May 3, 2018, 11:54 AM
May 2018

She's a disinformation agent.

Shame that our media is a willing co-conspirator in all of this.

turbinetree

(24,631 posts)
41. Hey Sarah, can I call you Sarah.......................your 'A" LIAR and your team occupying
Thu May 3, 2018, 11:59 AM
May 2018

that big white house and scamming everything off your criminal enterprise is one gigantic LIE.....................did you lie to to "refuse" to answer questions in your deplorable head ....................Felonies are still felonies, and your "boy" or "guy" and all of his "guy's and gal's are LIARS.............................leave go back home .......................quit....................resign.

YOUR NOTHING BUT A BUNCH OF LIARS..................NO PRINCIPLES..............NONE




November 2018 cannot get here fast enough



 

cungar2000

(98 posts)
44. Who woulda thought that people who lie thousands of times a year
Thu May 3, 2018, 12:34 PM
May 2018

Would eventually have some of those lies come back to bite them on the ass

Enoki33

(1,584 posts)
46. As has been said, this is coming from someone who makes her
Thu May 3, 2018, 01:02 PM
May 2018

living by lyin for likely the only person without a single decent redeeming factor.

 

laserhaas

(7,805 posts)
48. It's only a lie - if she knew what the truth was.
Thu May 3, 2018, 01:48 PM
May 2018

How could she know? How could anyone know (given the nature of the Trump beast)?

Just sayin....

 

Adrahil

(13,340 posts)
55. Well.... THAT'S embarrassing.
Thu May 3, 2018, 02:33 PM
May 2018

The look you get on your face when lying for your boss is exposed as lying for your boss, by your boss.

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