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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders lamented the media’s excess attention on the Russia investigation, which she suggested came from baseless suspicion, but said President Donald Trump wouldn’t end it before it came to “a complete and full conclusion.”
Her comments came in response to a reporter asking why, if Trump saw the Russia investigation as a witch hunt, he didn’t just fire special counsel Robert Mueller and altogether end the probe.
“I think we all know what everybody in this room would do if the president did that,” Sanders said Tuesday, suggesting that the press’s reaction factored into Trump’s decision to maintain the investigation.
She added that ending the investigation wouldn’t be “helpful,” although “there is nothing to” the Russia controversy.
“The president wants to see this end, and he wants to see them finally come to the same conclusion that I think most everyone in America has. That there is nothing to this,” she said before noting the media’s excessive focus on the issue.
“They spent the better part — most of you have spent the better part of a year looking, digging, obsessing over trying to find something and have yet to find anything.”
Sanders reiterated the administration’s previous denial that the president and his associates didn’t collude with Russia.
“Frankly, this administration — we’ve said it time and time before — there was no collusion, there’s nothing to it. We’re ready to move on. Clearly, the American people are,” she said.
Her answers came amid indications that Mueller was quickly expanding his Russia investigation.
Last week, Mueller reportedly interviewed Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the first current administration official to reportedly undergo that sort of questioning by Mueller’s team.
Mueller could seek to interview Trump as well, even though his lawyers reportedly had concerns about their client participating. Trump, who repeatedly denied any collusion, thought an interview would put to rest collusion suspicions.
Watch her make those comments below, via Fox News.
