For the first time in three weeks the White House announced a press briefing. But these sessions haven’t been about news, or the administration in a long time. These are just irregular gatherings where Trump, through a surrogate, is allowed to vent. Today’s topics were the New York Times investigation that called Donald Trump a tax cheat and the comments he made last night about Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford.
“It wasn’t anything other than the president stating facts, in fact, facts that were laid out in the prosecutor’s memo that she put forward to the senate. Each of the things he called out were laid out in that memo.” –Sarah Sanders
President Trump was “stating facts” when mocking Christine Blasey Ford at a campaign rally last night in Mississippi, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders says https://t.co/DO82fplHQi pic.twitter.com/S4CssZfs9n
— CNN (@CNN) October 3, 2018
On the New York Times investigation, Sanders didn’t have specific denials but just called the piece “false” and “boring,” which sounds a lot like someone else.
Sanders calls the NYT expose about Trump family finances and taxes “boring.” pic.twitter.com/J3THvF4i5j
— Eamon Javers (@EamonJavers) October 3, 2018
“It’s a totally false attack based on an old recycled news story. “[It was} a very boring 14,000-word story.” –Sarah Sanders
Trump's team has had nearly 24 hours to publicly contest anything in the Times story about "dubious tax schemes" and "instances of outright fraud." But they haven't cited any specifics https://t.co/lNRe2IwMLQ
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) October 3, 2018