Sanders admits White House’s story about Comey firing has changed, argues it doesn’t matter – ThinkProgress
[ad_1] During his train wreck of an interview on Hannity on Wednesday night , new Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani explained that the president fired then-FBI director James Comey because Comey refused to publicly announce that Trump “wasn’t a target” of the FBI’s investigation of his campaign. There’s just one problem. Giuliani’s explanation for Comey’s firing differs from two previous ones that have already been offered by the White House — the official line, which was that Comey mishandled the Hillary Clinton email investigation; and the one Trump offered NBC’s Lester Holt, which was that he fired Comey because he was frustrated with the Russia investigation . On Thursday, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to reconcile team Trump’s shifting rationales for Comey’s firing. She responded with the verbal equivalent of the shrug emoji. “There were a number of reasons that James Comey was fired. The president has named several of them,” Sanders said. “But the bottom line ...