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Sarah Sanders confirms White House aide accused of insulting John McCain still has a job
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Posted on 05/11/2018 5:29:46 PM PDT by Innovative

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on Friday confirmed that Kelly Sadler, the top White House aide accused of joking about Sen. John McCain's death in a staff meeting Thursday, is still employed by the administration. But Sanders otherwise repeatedly declined to comment on the reported remark, or how President Trump views McCain, who is being treated for brain cancer.

As The Hill first reported and other publications later confirmed, Sadler, in a conversation about McCain's disapproval of Mr. Trump's pick to run the CIA, said, "It doesn't matter, he's dying anyway." But Sanders declined to comment further, and only divulged Sadler's employment status after she was pressed about it a second time.

"I'm not gonna' comment on an internal staff meeting," Sanders said multiple times, when reporters prodded her as to whether the White House believes it should address those remarks.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: mccain; sadler; sanders
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To: Innovative

She should say, the staffer still has her job and will not be replaced by anyone like Senator McCain ... because the president prefers people who aren’t dying.


41 posted on 05/11/2018 6:26:41 PM PDT by zencycler
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To: Innovative

Was this really an insult or just a statement of fact taken out of context?


42 posted on 05/11/2018 6:36:39 PM PDT by This I Wonder32460 (I'd rather be a Trump deplorable then a Hillary corruptible.)
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To: Innovative

The staffer should get a medal.


43 posted on 05/11/2018 6:48:14 PM PDT by Okeydoker
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To: miserare

There are too many moles. It’s time to get tough on them.


I heard a guy on the radio today say it was Never Trump leftovers brought in to the White House by Rinse Pribus.


44 posted on 05/11/2018 6:48:54 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Innovative

McCain - from his death bed - recently insulted the hell out of Sarah Palin.

Crickets.


45 posted on 05/11/2018 6:57:38 PM PDT by FrankR (If it wasn't for stupid ideas, the left would have no ideas at all.)
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To: Innovative

No worse than InSain disinviting Trump to his funeral publically. Who cares if some aide made a silly joke.


46 posted on 05/11/2018 7:10:50 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: tennmountainman
It's most likely Sadler voted for McCain while nobody at CBS did. Hence her cynical remark and CBS’s hypocritical fake concern
47 posted on 05/11/2018 7:25:37 PM PDT by CaptainK ("no collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker")
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To: Innovative

I think Kelly Sadler deserves a promotion.

In the same vein, I won’t be unhappy to see McCain demoted to six feet under.


48 posted on 05/11/2018 7:40:53 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Innovative

Excellent!


49 posted on 05/11/2018 7:51:59 PM PDT by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now. .)
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To: Innovative

Those remarks are tame when compared with remarks McCain has made about the President and others on his staff. He McCain has been a vehement enemy of the WH.


50 posted on 05/11/2018 7:56:18 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Zhang Fei

Yeeeesssss! An indelicate remark certainly, but said in the privacy of the office. WHO LEAKED IT?


51 posted on 05/11/2018 8:03:20 PM PDT by kiltie65
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To: Innovative

Sarah Sanders confirms White House aide accused of insulting John McCain still has a job

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A sure sign that at least one sane human being works in the White House.


52 posted on 05/11/2018 8:16:50 PM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: Innovative

Even if McCain wasn’t ill, no one cares about his opinions.


53 posted on 05/11/2018 8:27:24 PM PDT by octex
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To: Innovative

Sounds to me like Kelly should have got a promotion.


54 posted on 05/11/2018 9:13:46 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Innovative

President Trump is as responsible for Sadler’s remarks as Cindy McCain is for her husband’s remarks. Both are perfectly free to state their opinions however unpopular they may be. And, it just happens to be true that John McCain is dying.

The leaker has to be found and fired, I sure agree on that.


55 posted on 05/11/2018 9:18:15 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: EDINVA

>>The leaker has to be found and fired, I sure agree on that.<<

Absolutely! President Trump, order your people to track down that leaker and FIRE him/her before whoever it is causes more damage.


56 posted on 05/11/2018 9:31:23 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat ( This Who are the idiots who elected this dreadful Pope? They need to unelect him. He is a disgrace.)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

I don’t wish to speak ill of the soon-to-be dead, but what you point out about his last decision to deprive his State of half its votes in the Senate convinces me he deserved the Songbird title. For 40 years I’ve tried to be fair and to take reports of his POW and pilot years under advisement.

But here tonight on FR, this comment summarizes his character. I am done being fair and am not going to think about this horrible man when he’s gone. His entitlement and delusions of grandeur have disgusted me for too long.

May Arizona be free of this man and his followers and get a Senator who speaks for the common man.


57 posted on 05/11/2018 9:43:10 PM PDT by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine and education.)
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To: Innovative

Let the senate first censor McAmnesty for his insults, then Trump can reprimand the aide.


58 posted on 05/11/2018 10:00:09 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Innovative

Anything to try to divert attention from his accomplishment of getting those hostages released.


59 posted on 05/11/2018 10:17:22 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Innovative

So how is this an insult? he will be dead soon! again the truth is like garlic to a vampire


60 posted on 05/12/2018 3:51:53 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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