Mueller report exposes all the president's liars
WASHINGTON - Addressing reporters from the White House lectern, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders made a startling claim shortly after President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James B. Comey two years ago.
"I've heard from countless members of the FBI that are grateful and thankful for the president's decision," she said, refusing to back down when pressed on the issue. "Between emails, text messages, absolutely," she insisted.
It wasn't true. She later told prosecutors working for special counsel Robert S. Mueller III that her comments were a "slip of the tongue."
It's a crime to lie to federal investigators or Congress, a lesson that many of Trump's associates found out the hard way. (Just ask former national security adviser Michael Flynn or disbarred lawyer Michael Cohen; they're among several who
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