Sanders defended the 'sentiment' of her characterization of Trump's decision to fire James Comey as '100 percent accurate,' even though she told Mueller that her comments at the time were not based on any facts
“I can speak to my own personal experience,” she said in 2017. “I’ve heard from countless members of the FBI that are grateful and thankful for the president’s decision.”
Mueller’s team honed in on Trump’s decision to fire Comey as part of its probe to determine whether the president intended to obstruct justice. The report said investigators found “substantial evidence” that Trump dismissed the FBI director for his “unwillingness to state that the president was not personally under investigation” by the special counsel.
poster="http://v.politico.com/images/1155968404/201904/2134/1155968404_6027671797001_6027677590001-vs.jpg?pubId=1155968404"In a separate Friday morning interview with ABC's "Good Morning America," Sanders also pushed back against the idea that she misled the press in a separate instance described in Mueller’s report, when she told reporters in 2017 that the president “certainly didn’t dictate” a misleading statement Donald Trump Jr.
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