Sanders: Bannon’s ‘Outrageous’ Claim Is ‘Not The Best Way To Curry Favor’

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks during the daily press briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, in Washington, DC., on January 2, 2018. (Photo by Oliver Contreras/SIPA U... White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks during the daily press briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, in Washington, DC., on January 2, 2018. (Photo by Oliver Contreras/SIPA USA)(Sipa via AP Images) MORE LESS

Steve Bannon’s comments about Donald Trump Jr. in an upcoming book are “absolutely outrageous and unprecedented,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said during Wednesday’s press briefing. 

Bannon, in Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” said that a meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and Kremlin-connected Russians was “treasonous” and “unpatriotic.”

“They’re going to crack Don. Jr. like an egg on national TV,” Bannon told Wolff.

At a press briefing Wednesday, the Daily Mail’s Francesca Chambers asked what had led to the “dramatic falling out” between Trump and Bannon.

“Is this a direct response to Steve Bannon calling the President’s son unpatriotic and saying that he committed treason?”

“I think there are a number of factors that played in,” Sanders responded. “I would certainly think that going after the President’s son in an absolutely outrageous and unprecedented way is probably not the best way to curry favor with anybody.”

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  1. Avatar for caltg caltg says:

    Somehow Sarah, I don’t think Bannon is trying to “curry favor” with anyone, certainly not anyone in the White House. Your statement to that effect is truly idiotic, like so much of what you say.

  2. “At least, that’s been my experience.”

  3. Trump supporters are ever so slowly learning that currying favor with Donnie is to their and the country’s detriment.

  4. The best ways to curry favor with DJT aren’t palatable to anyone with a soul or an aversion to watching a man drink gravy as a beverage.

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