"I Love Wikileaks" Was Just A Joke- Sarah Sanders says

[Zippyjuan]

The joke was so good he mentioned Wikileaks over 100 times during the 2016 campaign. What else was he also joking about?

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/do...t-loving-wikileaks-sarah-sanders-says-n994296

President Donald Trump was just joking when commented during his campaign that he "loved" WikiLeaks, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Sunday.

"Look, clearly the president was making a joke during the 2016 campaign," Sanders told "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace about Trump's past praise for WikiLeaks. "Certainly we take this serious."

Sanders spoke about Trump's WikiLeaks remarks after the Department of Justice charged the website's fugitive founder Julian Assange with computer hacking following his arrest in London partly in connection with a U.S. extradition warrant. Assange had been living for nearly seven years in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to avoid extradition.

The Department of Justice indicted Assange on a charge of conspiring with former Army intelligence officer Chelsea Manning to hack a classified government computer. Manning provided WikiLeaks with a trove of secret government documents that the website published in 2010. Assange has insisted the U.S. is trying to infringe on journalistic freedom.

Assange and WIkiLeaks were at the forefront of leaking stolen emails during the 2016 presidential campaign, including from 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta.

At the time, Trump routinely name-dropped WikiLeaks, praising the organization.

“I love WikiLeaks,” Trump said in October 2016.

But on Thursday, when asked about Assange's organization, Trump told reporters at the White House: I know nothing about WikiLeaks."

"It's not my thing," he added.

On Sunday, Sanders said the Trump administration was "the only one to do anything about" Assange and WikiLeaks.

"Let's not forget that the reason Julian Assange is being looked at is because of the engagement he had with Chelsea Manning," she said before adding that Trump "was making a joke during the campaign" when he expressed love for the organization.

 

[Zippyjuan]

"I was just kidding, folks!"


(video from Jimmy Kimmel Show)

 

[Superfluous Man]

Whoops.

Trump's defenders here at RPF should have waited for orders from their leader on what excuse they were supposed to use.

We had people here using a totally different one than this.

 

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"I Love Wikileaks" Was Just A Joke- Sarah Sanders says

To be fair, there have been claims of "Drain the Swamp" , "Lock Her Up" slogans being jokes also.



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Coulter on Trump: "Joke presidency who scammed the American people"

 

[AngryCanadian]

To be fair, there have been claims of "Drain the Swamp" , "Lock Her Up" slogans being jokes also.



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Coulter on Trump: "Joke presidency who scammed the American people"

It seems more and more Coulter is proving to be right again.

 

[ATruepatriot]

It seems more and more Coulter is proving to be right again.

Know what? I would back Coulter if she wasn't such a blatant stone cold racist.

 

[enhanced_deficit]

Know what? I would back Coulter if she wasn't such a blatant stone cold racist.

To be fair, similar things were being said about Trump when he was championing birther movement.

Fortunately, he deleted those tweets after winning election.

Although, those tweets may have been a 'joke' also, who nows.

 

[Swordsmyth]

To be fair, similar things were being said about Trump when he was championing birther movement.

Fortunately, he deleted those tweets after winning election.

Although, those tweets may have been a 'joke' also, who nows.

That isn't racist.

 

[enhanced_deficit]

That isn't racist.

I wasn't giving my opinion, just reporting that he was being called racist by many black folks when he was championing birther movement relating first black POTUS. Same was said about Rafael Cruz Sr. who wanted to send Obama back to Kenya while campaigning for his son Senator Rafeal Cruz.

By same token, many would argue that nothing that Couter has said is racist.

 

[Swordsmyth]

I wasn't giving my opinion, just reporting that he was being called racist by many black folks when he was championing birther movement.

By same token, many would argue that nothing that Couter has said is racist.

I don't know about Coulter, I would have to be told what she said that some people think is racist.

ATP seems level headed so there may be more to the accusation than I would normally expect when the left claims racism about a conservative celebrity.

 

[AngryCanadian]

I dont think this will set well with some of MEGA Trump Supporters who supported Assange. When it comes to American Candidates you should take them at a grain salt of anything.
They don't want to work for you.

 

[dannno]

Whoops.

Trump's defenders here at RPF should have waited for orders from their leader on what excuse they were supposed to use.

We had people here using a totally different one than this.

Why does anybody have to defend Trump based on something Sarah Sanders said?

 

[nikcers]

Why does anybody have to defend Trump based on something Sarah Sanders said?

Isn't it Sarah Sanders job to defend Trump? This shit is a joke.

 

[dannno]

Isn't it Sarah Sanders job to defend Trump? This shit is a joke.

Yes, that is her job, to be the official spokesperson for the administration. She does a good job at that.

 

[Superfluous Man]

Why does anybody have to defend Trump based on something Sarah Sanders said?

She speaks for Trump.

The point is, before a Trump defender just thoughtlessly jumps on some excuse of, "When he said X, what he meant was Y," that some Joe Blow just pulled out of his butt with no knowledge of the situation whatsoever, and goes around spouting that off as if it's a given fact, they might want to wait until Trump (and Sarah Sanders=Trump) actually gives his own excuse, so that they can make sure they have their story right.

Either that, or, if they're really just speculating, they might consider sprinkling a "maybe" or two somewhere in their proclamations, rather than pretending they're known facts. Trumpeteers tend not to deal in maybes though. Everything is just obvious, and anybody who disagrees clearly doesn't understand something.

 

[dannno]

She speaks for Trump.

The point is, before a Trump defender just thoughtlessly jumps on some excuse of, "When he said X, what he meant was Y," that some Joe Blow just pulled out of his butt with no knowledge of the situation whatsoever, and goes around spouting that off as if it's a given fact, they might want to wait until Trump (and Sarah Sanders=Trump) actually gives his own excuse, so that they can make sure they have their story right.

Either that, or, if they're really just speculating, they might consider sprinkling a "maybe" or two somewhere in their proclamations, rather than pretending they're known facts. Trumpeteers tend not to deal in maybes though. Everything is just obvious, and anybody who disagrees clearly doesn't understand something.

Sanders job is to speak for the Trump Administration.. not for Trump personally. Sometimes she does a good job at defending him personally, but her job is to speak for the administration.

But the point is, she isn't Trump. So defending Trump for something she said doesn't make sense.

 

[Superfluous Man]

Sanders job is to speak for the Trump Administration.. not for Trump personally..

Same thing.

 

[dannno]

Same thing.

 

[parocks]

I dont think this will set well with some of MEGA Trump Supporters who supported Assange. When it comes to American Candidates you should take them at a grain salt of anything.
They don't want to work for you.

As someone who spends more time on Q than RPF, I'd say that, no, this doesn't sit well with me.

People who are reading Q today or a year ago are the same people reading the same stuff = things like Podesta's Emails, DNC emails, all these emails many of us read in 2016 before the election on Assange's Wikileaks.

Wikileaks helped get Trump elected. Wikileaks contained a lot of the reasons "lock her up" and "drain the swamp" were popular chants. And now this guy we liked is a bad guy, and Trump is trying to put him in jail.

You go back to November 1, 2016, right before the election, and you say "US Government arrests Assange in April 2019, who is the President?" And most people say Hillary. Few say Trump.

Arrest of Assange = Hillary style, deep state governance.

There's a theory that what Trump wants is Assange up there testifying. Needs facts, evidence, admissible, comes from Assange's testimony. Just a theory though. Occam's razor says this sucks.

 

[ATruepatriot]

I wasn't giving my opinion, just reporting that he was being called racist by many black folks when he was championing birther movement relating first black POTUS. Same was said about Rafael Cruz Sr. who wanted to send Obama back to Kenya while campaigning for his son Senator Rafeal Cruz.

By same token, many would argue that nothing that Couter has said is racist.

I don't know about Coulter, I would have to be told what she said that some people think is racist.

ATP seems level headed so there may be more to the accusation than I would normally expect when the left claims racism about a conservative celebrity.

Been watching her for years now and most of it has been scrubbed, but her Aryan racism used to be everywhere. How soon we forget that Coulter was very instrumental in pumping up hatred for all Muslims as terrorists and support for the Patriot act. She is a radical extremist who wanted to Nuke the whole middle east and exterminate all Arabs and Muslims. Then doubled down again after the Boston Marathon bombings when she wanted to round up every Muslim in the country and toss them out. Since she has labelled all brown people as Terrorists. Even though I lean right, this is where I differ with party line Conservatives. While I think our "illegal" immigration issue is a real serious problem, I think stereotyping any race or culture is both wrong and ignorant. As a humanitarian, the last thing I agree with is ideology that would prove the liberals right when they accuse all white conservatives as being racist. Coulter makes this appear true in example.

Coulter is like that spoiled loud vulgar sister in law you do not want to associate with when you go out in public together. It is obvious and very telling that she cheerleads Trump when putting brown people in check, yet she gets pissed off if anything fouls up Trump and delays this stopping of the brown people, Then she takes it out on Trump for taking too long. She has not lost this hatred for all brown = terrorists and it is her true root base of principle. She is a radical Aryan racist who would exterminate them all if she could. For myself illegal immigration is a problem because of numbers, economic issues, and the very real disproportionate criminal element, But I do not see race or culture, I would feel the same if they were all hot blond females from Scandinavia. But for Coulter it is strictly a stop all brown terrorist people and all immigration legal or not at any cost and it can't happen soon enough to satisfy her Aryan hatred.

Unfortunately, the libs are right about Coulter... Everything they claim she said she did said, she is a loose cannon and a very poor pick to represent conservatives.