Sarah Huckabee Sanders boasted that the Trump administration, unlike the Obama administration,
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders alerted reporters this afternoon to an interesting tidbit: Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin had an hour-long chat this morning, and the two covered quite a bit of ground – including the resolution of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
Toward the very end of the Q&A with Sanders, there was an exchange that stood out for me:
There are three core elements to this, and each one is important.
The first is the angle raised by the reporter, which the White House press secretary was quick to dismiss: the Mueller report makes clear that Russia attacked our elections. It’s a point even the Trump campaign no longer contests. When the American president speaks with the chief executive of a country that launched a military intelligence operation against the United States, it’s not unreasonable to think the American leader would make his dissatisfaction known.
