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| Donaldson and not Cooper, but Stelter, another journalistic wizard |
In an interview with the Comedy News Network's Anderson Cooper on Friday, Donaldson and Cooper discussed the level of transparency in the Trump administration.
The last time Sanders held a normal combative press briefing was on March 11th, and Jim Acosta has made note of it in his diary.
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Donaldson, who retired from ABC News in 2009 due to eyebrow fatigue, said he believed “true transparency” didn’t exist “because I think he [President Trump] doesn’t want it to exist.”
Unlike President Obama who let the public know immediately that the Benghazi attack that killed 4 Americans, one of whom was our US Ambassador, was due to an anti-Mohammed video seen by about 300 people globally.
Donaldson said he had a good relationship with White House press secretaries since the John F. Kennedy administration.
“Except for Ron Ziegler who lied for Richard Nixon,” Donaldson pointed out with his left eyebrow. “I’ve never seen anything like this with Sarah Sanders and there’s a difference. And Ziegler lied about one thing, the question whether the president of the United States was covering up the Watergate burglary and all the questions that had to with that.”
However, the former anchor said Ziegler did answer questions about domestic and foreign policy truthfully.
“On the other hand Sarah Sanders simply lies about everything taking a cue from her boss,” he said. "Not just one thing. She’s had a lifetime achievement Oscar for lying.”
The former anchor admitted he did not know Sanders but felt sorry for her.
“I don’t know her. I feel a little sorry for her because it’s the boss who does it,” he continued. “She takes the cue from him. Leadership begins at the top and so does all the bad things that happen in the administration.”
Sanders came under scrutiny recently after special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report revealed that Sanders admitted to investigators that she had made an unfounded claim that “countless” FBI agents had reached out to express support for Trump’s decision to fire FBI Director James Comey in May 2017.
In a recent interview with “Good Morning America’s” George Stephanopoulos, the former Democratic Party adviser and totally unbiased "journalist" pressed Sanders on the report.
“That’s not a slip of the tongue, Sarah, that’s a deliberate false statement,” Obama's said, having never gone after Obama's White House Press Secretary Jay Carney when he lied for Obama about the aforementioned Benghazi attack.
“Actually, if you look at what I said, I said the slip of the tongue was using the word 'countless.' There were a number of FBI, both former and current, that agreed with the president’s decision, and they continued to speak out and say that and send notice to the White House of that agreement with the president’s decision. James Comey was a disgraced leaker and used authorization to spy on the Trump campaign despite no evidence of collusion,” the press secretary replied.
But at least Obama himself never lied to the American people if you don't count the "keep your doctor" thing, and the Benghazi video thing, and the "ninety percent of guns coming across the border from Mexico come from the United States" thing, along with the "Fast and Furious" thing and the pallets of money for Iran thing.
Funny, but at the end of Obama's reign, there was only a 20 percent approval rating of the Federal government according to a Pew survey. That was the lowest since polls were taken by them starting in 1958.
All politicians lie. That doesn't excuse lying, but if you're going to say crap about the Trump administration without holding Obama's administration to task, you're nothing more than fake news.
Like Sam Donaldson's hair.
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