Sanders lied about ācountlessā FBI agents losing faith in Comey
Of all the lies, this is the one that Sanders herself admitted was a lie to Mueller: the claim, expressed both in the May 10 press conference and in other interviews, that she had heard from ācountlessā members of the FBI who did not support Comey and were glad he was fired.
This too was a suspicious claim at the time, since contemporaneous reporting portrayed the FBI as being in mourning over Comeyās ouster. But the Mueller report discloses that Sanders didnāt have any backing for the claim at all:
Sanders told this Office that her reference to hearing from ācountless members of the FBIā was a āslip of the tongue.ā She also recalled that her statement in a separate press interview that rank-and-file FBI agents had lost confidence in Comey was a comment she made āin the heat of the momentā that was not founded on anything.
Of course, these too appear to be lies ā or at least flimsy excuses. Sanders is saying that a statement she made several times just during the May 10 presser was a āslip of the tongue,ā and that its use again in a different interview was āin the heat of the moment.ā Sandersās statements to the special counselās investigators portray her as someone with too little self-control to be an effective messenger; the much more likely answer is that she was simply lying, and knew it, and kept doing it.
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