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[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 ...

[ad_1] On April 5, President Trump specifically said he had no knowledge of the $130,000 payment Michael Cohen made to Stormy Daniels, and referred all questions back to Cohen. Last night, Rudy Giuliani admitted that Trump had reimbursed Cohen for the $130,000 in a series of payments that completed in 2017. During Thursday’s White House press briefing, Sarah Sanders was presented with a  very difficult task are explaining how these two things are consistent. She barely tried. Sanders initially said that “this was information the president didn’t know at the time but eventually learned.” But how could Trump not know about the $130,000 payment by Cohen if he had already reimbursed Cohen? That’s precisely what Sanders was asked next by ABC’s Jonathan Karl. “How could he not have known, he was paying him back?” “I’m not going to get into those details,” Sanders replied. This isn’t an answer but an acknowledgement that there is no answer. CNN’s Jim Acosta gave it another shot. “How can...

[ad_1] Donald Trump has a history of bashing those who plead the Fifth. At a rally in 2016 , Trump said, “The mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth?” and during a debate with former Secretary of State and then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, he called pleading the Fifth “ disgraceful .” But now, Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen has invoked the Fifth amendment, using his right not to incriminate himself to secure a temporary stay in a lawsuit filed by adult film actress Stormy Daniels against Trump. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked about Cohen’s choice to plead the Fifth by a reporter Tuesday, who asked whether Trump stands by his earlier remarks about such a move being disgraceful. “If I may, I wanted to ask you about something that took place last week involving the president’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen,” the reporter said. “He, in court documents, asserted that he would assert his Fifth Amendment rights ...