Sarah Huckabee Sanders admitted to Mueller's team that a statement she made to the press about former FBI Director James Comey was 'not founded on anything.'
'Really?': A reporter calls out Huckabee's claim that 'countless' FBI employees were happy with Comey's firing
"Following the press conference, Sanders spoke to the President, who told her she did a good job and did not point out any inaccuracies in her comments," Mueller's report said."Sanders told this Office that her reference to hearing from 'countless members of the FBI 'was a 'slip of the tongue.'" The report added that Sanders"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' tenure as White House press secretary has been marked by a contentious relationship with the media that has at times resulted in shouting matches with reporters. Over the course of Trump's time in the White House, the number of Trump administration press briefings
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