The White House aide who brushed off Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) opposition to CIA director nominee Gina Haspell because he’s “dying” still works in the administration, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Friday.
NBC News’ Kristen Welker asked whether White House special assistant to the President Kelly Sadler still works at the White House, and Sanders responded, “Yes, she does.”
Sanders mostly refused to engage reporters’ questions about Sadler’s remark, saying that she didn’t want to validate a leak from an internal White House meeting.
Watch the exchange below:
Sarah Huckabee Sanders says aide who made McCain "dying" remark still works at the White House pic.twitter.com/6JT8BRvO1M
— David Taintor (@davidtaint) May 11, 2018
Is SHS off her meds? What’s she doing, directly and accurately answering a question from a member of the press like that?
Gonna get YOU’RE FIRED if she’s not careful.
“…and was promoted to Deputy Chief of Staff late this afternoon.”
If he fired every aide who crashed though some long-standing norm understood as inviolate by every decent human, well, you can imagine. He’d be answering the phone and making copies himself, if he hadn’t fired himself long before.
As long as the jerk who criticized him for being a POW still has a job, she’s small potatoes.
They all seem nice.