{"id":2440,"date":"2019-06-22T02:05:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T02:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=2440"},"modified":"2019-07-07T06:16:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T06:16:29","slug":"sarah-huckabee-sanders-to-step-down-as-white-house-press-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/sarah-huckabee-sanders-to-step-down-as-white-house-press-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Huckabee Sanders to step down as White House Press Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After\nmore than three years serving as one of the most trusted members of Donald\nTrump\u2019s administration, Sarah Huckabee Sanders is stepping down from her\ncurrent position as White House Press Secretary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur wonderful Sarah\nHuckabee Sanders will be leaving the White House at the end of the month and\ngoing home to the Great State of Arkansas,\u201d Trump tweeted Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanders, 36, worked on the\ncommunications team of Trump\u2019s 2016 campaign, and later joined the White House\nas deputy press secretary when Trump took office. She\u2019s held her current role\nsince July 2017, after Sean Spicer resigned from the position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though many officials \u2014\nincluding former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci and\nformer Attorney General Jeff Sessions \u2014 have departed the Administration on\nfraught terms, it appears Sanders is amicably parting ways with her boss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During an event at the\nWhite House on Thursday, Trump called Sanders a \u201cgreat, great magnificent\nperson,\u201d with her by his side. Sanders, meanwhile, said through tears that the\njob was \u201cthe honor of a lifetime,\u201d and that she \u201cloved every minute, even the\nhard minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A White House Press\nSecretary is generally responsible for delivering routine and formal press\nbriefings, though Sanders often went weeks or months without doing so. In fact,\nit\u2019s been over 90 days since her last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanders\u2019 stint has not been\na particularly easy one. In addition to having to fend off questions about\nRussia\u2019s ties to the 2016 election and the resulting Mueller report, her boss\nis also known to cause media uproars by tweeting out new government policies\nand staff changes unexpectedly, surprising even top government officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it\u2019s not just Trump\u2019s actions that have put Sanders under fire. She faced her own scrutiny when the Mueller report revealed that an earlier claim she made about Former FBI Director James Comey was\u00a0unfounded.\u00a0She had told the media that \u201ccountless\u201d members of the FBI indicated they lost confidence in Comey at the time of his firing. Later, in interviews with the Special Counsel\u2019s office, she called that a \u201cslip of the tongue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other controversial incidents include her\u00a0saying<\/a>\u00a0Congress wasn\u2019t \u201csmart enough\u201d to page through Trump\u2019s tax returns, being\u00a0asked to leave a Virginia restaurant\u00a0over political differences, and\u00a0suspending the hard press\u00a0credentials of a well-known journalist after a testy exchange about immigration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his announcement of\nSanders\u2019 departure, Trump said he hoped she would run for Governor of Arkansas,\na position her father, Mike Huckabee, previously held. Sanders said she was\neager to return home to be a mom to her three children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After more than three years serving as one of the most trusted members of Donald Trump\u2019s administration, Sarah Huckabee Sanders is stepping down from her current position as White House Press Secretary. \u201cOur wonderful Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be leaving the White House at the end of the month and going home to the Great […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3398,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions\/3398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}