CNN’s David Chalian: ‘Circle May 3’ as the Date Sarah Sanders ‘Lost Credibility With the American People’
CNN political director David Chalian had some harsh words for White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders following her briefing on Thursday afternoon.
The political analyst decried Sanders’ apparent inability to set the record straight surrounding a $130,000 payment President Donald Trump‘s personal attorney Michael Cohen made to porn star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election — including what she knew, and when she knew it.
“Circle May 3 on your calendar,” Chalian said. “Because this is the day that we’ll look back on in this briefing where Sarah Sanders made it so painfully clear she has lost credibility with the American people and the reporters in that room. She would completely side-step and say that she could only give the best information she has. She was acknowledging to Jim Acosta’s questioning that she came out and provided incorrect information.”
Chalian’s comments arrived after the press secretary was forced to walk back previous statements she made regarding the payment, claiming at the time the president was unaware of the hush money Cohen paid Daniels. On Thursday, she said she only became aware that Trump knew of the payment when his new attorney Rudy Guliani told Sean Hannity in an interview on Fox News the night before.
“When the spokesperson for the president of the United States of America comes to that podium provides and incorrect, false, bad information, they have no credibility to continue with that job,” he continued. “I’m not suggesting she’s on her way out. I’m sure Sarah Sanders will stay there because she’s pleasing an audience of one.”
Watch a clip of the exchange above via CNN.
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