Morning Joe Bashes Sarah Sanders Over Press Briefing: She’s Picking Up Trump’s ‘Habit’ of Lying

On Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabeee Sanders held a briefing for the first time in a full week. And as soon as she took the podium, according to Joe Scarborough, she began lying.

Thursday on Morning Joe, the host blasted Sanders for trying to spin comments made by outgoing National Security Advsier H.R. McMaster.

“Here we have one more example…of Sarah Huckabee Sanders lying,” Scarborough said. “McMaster never said that no one’s been tougher on Russia than [President] Donald Trump. That is a lie. Full stop. Sarah Huckabee Sanders lied yesterday again. That’s a lie.

“She also lied when she said that, when she denied that McMaster said the quote was we have failed to hit them enough.’ And again, she lied about that, as well.”

The BBC’s Katty Kay went even further in her criticism of the press secretary.

“It’s interesting to see Sarah Huckabee Sanders picking up that habit,” Kay said. “Picking up the habit of saying something that is clearly not the case as if it were actually true, and if it were actually fact. And you get the impression in the White House, at the moment, that the president is increasingly surrounding himself with people who are prepared to take that line — who are prepared to take Donald Trump’s view of the world even if what they are saying is not actually true.”

Watch above, via MSNBC.

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