Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be leaving her post as White House press secretary at the end of June. Trump broke the news today by announcing it during an event.
The Hill reports:
Sarah Sanders to leave White House
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who fiercely defended President Trump as White House press secretary and presided over the end of the daily news briefing, will leave her post at the end of the month, Trump announced Thursday.
Sanders’s departure caps off a tumultuous, two-year run as Trump’s top spokeswoman, marked by tensions with the press corps and questions about the White House’s credibility. During that time, however, Sanders became one of Trump’s closest aides as well as one of the few remaining people from his 2016 campaign.
In his announcement, which was made on Twitter, Trump praised Sanders as a “very special person with extraordinary talents” who could one day run for governor of her home state of Arkansas, where he said she will return after departing the White House.
Trump called Sanders on stage at a White House event minutes after tweeting out the news to laud her as a “warrior” who did an “outstanding job.”
“If we could get her to run for governor of Arkansas, I think she’ll do very well. I’m trying to get her to do that,” Trump said at the event, which promoted the hiring of former inmates.
See Trump’s tweets below:
After 3 1/2 years, our wonderful Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be leaving the White House at the end of the month and going home to the Great State of Arkansas….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 13, 2019
….She is a very special person with extraordinary talents, who has done an incredible job! I hope she decides to run for Governor of Arkansas – she would be fantastic. Sarah, thank you for a job well done!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 13, 2019
The question now is, who will replace her? Michael Knowles of the Daily Wire seems interested in the job.
So am I to understand you're looking for a new Press Secretary? https://t.co/lkdyGrhLrZ
— Potential WH Press Secretary Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) June 13, 2019
Straightforward from here
1. Ppl retweet the hell out of this
2. @BenShapiro fires @MichaelJKnowles
3. Donald Trump hires Michael
4. White House updates cigar smoking policy
5. Michael Knowles is White House Press Secretary. pic.twitter.com/4EwCAngZ6K— The Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) June 13, 2019
Why not?
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