Sarah Huckabee Sanders And Her Unconditional Loyalty

on October 20, 2017 in Washington, DC.
WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 20: White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders walks into her daily press briefing at the White House on October 20, 2017 in Washington, DC. Sanders answered various questions includ... WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 20: White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders walks into her daily press briefing at the White House on October 20, 2017 in Washington, DC. Sanders answered various questions including on President Trump's call to Sgt. La David Johnson's family. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders first won President Donald Trump’s approval by appearing on his favorite medium—television.

He loved her pugnacity and ease on talk shows and behind the podium as compared to the nervous and bumbling Sean Spicer.

According to a New Yorker feature, Sanders learned loyalty in the cradle of Arkansas politics, where she worked closely with her father during his political pursuits.

Now, she holds the line for Trump, even when reporters say she acts differently in private. Some White House press corps veterans say that Sanders is helpful and warm behind the scenes, but quick to don a mask of irritation and sarcasm when she steps behind the podium, ever aware of the eyes that almost always watch her performances.

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  1. All Sarah is going to get for her “loyalty” is a case of incurable reputation syphilis. And whats more when everything is done and trump is out of office he will mock her in his book calling her fat and ugly and pious dumb southerner.

  2. “Leadership idolisation breeds sycophantic following, which often shields the leader from truth.”
    ― Ifeoluwa Egbetade

  3. “Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”

    I guess she was out sick that day from Babble study.

  4. The New Yorker? Well. Finally a view of Sanders in the round, so to speak. :heart_eyes:

  5. She swore an oath to defend and uphold the Drumpfenprinzip

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