Political nepo baby Sarah Huckabee Sanders has only been Arkansas Governor for a short while but she’s already up to her eyeballs in scandals, and now she’s in a super-duper fun one. This latest one is thanks to her former boss, Donald Trump, the most scandal-plagued president in U.S. history, what with them 91 felony counts against him and all.
Of course, Sanders was right in the middle of this perfidiousness since she was White House press secretary during the earliest part of Trump’s presidency. Which was, of course, when the Stormy Daniels story was gaining steam, as Queerty notes. Daniels, a former adult film actress went on to say she’d had an affair with Trump in 2006 and broke her hush-money agreement. Then, of course, there’s that Anderson Cooper 60 Minutes interview, and whew, that blew the barn door right open.
This is of course why Trump is warming a seat inside a frigid Manhattan courtroom after allegedly falsifying financial documents in relation to the aforementioned payments. In total, he’s staring down 34 felony charges.
The one thing that’s always struck me as a bit peculiar is former Plaboy playmate Karen McDougal, who claims she and Trump carried on a 10-month affair, doesn’t really get mentioned as much in the media. I mean, this was after all, more than a fling. But this is where Sanders gets mired.
As anyone who isn’t dead or is living in a cave knows, Ex-National Enquirer boss David Pecker has been on the stand all week long talking about how the tabloid gave Trump a step up in his 2016 bid. This of course involved doing things like buying up the rights to a pair of troublesome stories and paying off a doorman at Trump who alleged Trump had a “lovechild.” The story has never been verified but Pecker paid him $30,000 anyway.
In McDougal’s case, Pecker testified that Trump asked him to buy her story to “take it off market.” And even though he had misgivings since Trump hadn’t paid him for that whole doorman bit, he bought the story anyway, for $150,000.
Everyone assumed McDougal would keep quiet. Which means of course, that everyone assumed wrong. Pecker (perhaps the world’s most unfortunate last name) was invited to the White House for an appreciation dinner a while later. But that went sour when McDougal appeared on CNN. Pecker amended the contract without Trump’s knowledge, and the then-president was “furious.”
So Pecker, Sanders, and Hope Hicks, former White House communications director got busy figuring out what to do. And of course, they encouraged the sleazoid tabloid publisher to extend the deal with McDougal.
“they thought that it was a good idea,” said the man whose name is now used to ‘poke’ fun at trump.
Umm. David Pecker testifies that he had a joint call with Hope Hicks and Sarah Huckabee Sanders — taxpayer funded WH officials, at the time — about whether Karen McDougal’s contract should be extended. "Both of them said that they thought it was a good idea," Pecker said.
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) April 25, 2024
I’m sure Sanders wishes that was the end of her involvement, but nope. It wasn’t. While serving as White House press secretary she also kept tabs on Melania for some reason. Stephanie Grisham, one of the former first lady’s closest White House aides, told Olivia Nuzzi that Sanders talked obsessively about McDougal.
Apparently, Sanders was trying to keep tabs on how Melania was reacting to all of this.
Grisham adds, “I would ask them what they knew and they would always tell me they knew absolutely nothing.”
— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) April 25, 2024
A woman scorned is a security and optics risk.
— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) April 25, 2024
Don’t you just find this whole thing sleazy as hell? What Sanders did isn’t illegal, but helping Trump sweep this under the rug is disgusting. And this is a woman who thought it was fine to blow $19,000+ on an ugly podium. She thinks nothing of being cruel to people in the LGBTQ+ community because she’s all “family values,” all the while sweeping the hush-money payments under the rug during her time at the White House.
Mind you, Arkansas is one of the states leading the U.S. in anti-LGBTQ+ legislation. Oh, and the state is ranked dead last for LGBTQ+ equality.
You know, Trump called Hillary Clinton a “nasty woman.” But I think we know who the truly nasty woman is. She’s a real prize isn’t, she?
*smirk*
She’s a rotten apple pretending to be ripe. She’s just not good at it, nor was she a convincing professional liar at the WH.
Sarah Huckleberry Sandwich is one of the ugliest woman I have ever seen. I am not referring to.her weight or facial features. She’s average looking and dumpy.It is her personality and the sour expression she always wears. She looks as if she’d be right at home with the tricky dudes who knitted while watching artistic guillotine during the Reign of Terror or eating bonbons while enjoying watching a fun hanging.
It’s kind of weird-her father seldom wears anything other than a smile on his face-why she is such a sour-puss is beyond me. Her dad might have been planning, all the time, to do his part in destroying our nation but damn it he’d do it with a smile.
Dad is a cheesy former preacher. That shirt eating grin is pretty standard along with the puffy face and jowls, very Southern. Give Bratty Matty Gaetz,a few years.
Tricoteuses.
There are many nasty women in the gqp. Magats have cornered the market on nasty women. That’s all they have. The men are not any better. Worse even.