Trump Explains Why Sarah Sanders Doesn’t Hold White House Press Briefings Anymore

President Donald Trump is back on Twitter, this time saying White House press briefings have pretty much stopped because of coverage from the “fake news” media.

Political observers have noticed that in the last few months, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders only holds press briefings once every 3-4 weeks. If one takes Trump’s non-briefing from early January out of the equation, there hasn’t been an event in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room since Sanders’ last formal conference on December 18.

According to Trump, the reason for this is that Sanders is poorly treated by the press pool, so there’s no point when “the word gets out anyway!”

The reason Sarah Sanders does not go to the “podium” much anymore is that the press covers her so rudely & inaccurately, in particular certain members of the press. I told her not to bother, the word gets out anyway! Most will never cover us fairly & hence, the term, Fake News!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 22, 2019

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