Sarah Huckabee Sanders has deranged press conference meltdown about synagogue shooting

| 3:52 pm EDT October 29, 2018
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During her first press conference after this weekend’s deadly shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders managed to drag the Trump regime’s response to the shooting even further into the gutter. Donald Trump had already tried to blame it on either the media or the lack of guns inside the synagogue, while refusing to blame it on antisemitism. Sanders took a somewhat different, but equally deranged, approach.

Any rational person can easily grasp that this shooting was at least partly motivated by Donald Trump’s racist and violent rhetoric. But in the deluded mind of Sarah Huckabee Sanders, it’s the fault of the media. In fact she told the reporters in the room that “You guys have a huge responsibility to play in the divisive nature of the country.” Then it got worse.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders appeared to say that Donald Trump can’t possibly be to blame for the increasing division and hate in America because he’s so darned popular. More specifically, she claimed that he was elected by an “overwhelming majority of 63 million Americans.” That’s a rather stunning lie, considering Trump lost the popular vote by roughly three million votes.

At another point Sarah Huckabee Sanders accused CNN of being the enemy of the American people, after one of Donald Trump’s biggest supporters tried to blow up the CNN building with a pipe bomb. To borrow a line from Toby Ziegler of The West Wing, Sarah Huckabee Sanders isn’t satan. She’s the one who runs out to 7-Eleven to buy satan a pack of cigarettes.