Liar!
All of the reporters who covered the meeting, including @kathrynw5, @AlexNBCNews and @jdawsey1, say they were told the room responded to the Sanford jab with boos, silence and groans, not applause and laughter. pic.twitter.com/svO40Dbygl
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 20, 2018
This is flat-out not true, according to people who were actually in the room. https://t.co/bEncFIaNgE
— Katie Watson (@kathrynw5) June 20, 2018
There was awkward silence and some boos. See story here. https://t.co/7vb12Xcqej https://t.co/ORR3qU4U25
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) June 20, 2018
House Republicans had front row seats to @POTUS’s dazzling display of pettiness and insecurity. Nobody applauded or laughed. People were disgusted. https://t.co/FvmDCxElgv
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) June 20, 2018
Sanford on this Trump tweet: "Another day running of dancing on the grave, or shooting the dead guy? I don't quite get what's going on. It's certainly entered the twilight zone." https://t.co/qAnAdbJcOl
— Paul McLeod (@pdmcleod) June 20, 2018
Mark Sanford weighs in on the last few days and Trump calling him a "nasty guy" pic.twitter.com/Lr0nXXtXsF
— Lauren Fox (@FoxReports) June 21, 2018
(This is not a controversial statement) https://t.co/bG4vCb21OU
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 21, 2018
Sanford: “Do we give a pass to the highest officeholder … who is constantly saying things that aren’t true? We are at an inflection point in American politics in how far we've gotten from Washington’s notion in we cannot tell a lie to it being the way things are done.”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 21, 2018
Sanford also acknowledged he was “living a lie” in 2009 when he lied about his extramarital affair but said he was caught and acknowledge the lie – which he said Trump should do too. “It’s a problem because in a free and open political system, objective truth matters"
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 21, 2018
Update:
It gets worse. Now many Republicans who were there won’t admit what happened – they’re afraid to cross Trump.
Trump lied about how Republicans reacted to his jab at Sanford in a private meeting. A few call him out; Rep. Walter Jones says Trump “makes up a lot of things.” But WaPo finds a bunch of others unwilling to challenge even a lie about them personally: https://t.co/Ugchm5Emb9
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 23, 2018
Sad! 