Is Sarah Sanders Actually Leaving The White House This Time?

President Trump announced on Twitter that Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be leaving her position at the end of the month.


Trump tweeted, "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."


Well, Trump has been President for less than 2 1/2 years. It just feels like five. To be charitable, Sanders began her association with Trump's presidential campaign in 2016. So he might be including the time before he was elected President.


Usually when Trump makes personnel announcements on Twitter they proceed on or ahead of schedule. But still this is Trump we're talking about. That and Sanders was supposed to depart the White House at the end of 2018. Indeed, that announcement was made a year ago today. So you'll forgive me if I'm a wee bit suspicious.


Then again, it's been more than three months since Sanders has actually held a press briefing (March 11th to be exact). So a case could be made that she checked out long ago.


I suspect Sanders stuck around as long as she has is because she is a very good liar, certainly better than her predecessor Sean Spicer. She was certainly willing to lie where it concerned Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey as she admitted when questioned by Robert Mueller's investigators. It's not everyone who with a straight face can say,  "I can definitively say the president is not a liar, and I think it's frankly insulting that question would be asked," never mind claim God wanted Trump to become President.


But Sanders is hardly the only person willing to lie for Donald Trump. With Trump up for re-election and the Democratic debates set to begin later this month, there is every reason to believe that Sanders' successor will be an even bigger liar than her. That is a frightening thought.