Because this is where we’re at, Sarah Huckabee Sanders was questioned at today’s White House press briefing about Trump’s now-infamous tweet about Kirsten Gillibrand. You, know the tweet that prompted Elizabeth Warren to actually call Gillibrand a slut.
Well anyway, Sanders wasn’t taking the media’s bait. She defended Trump’s remarks and dismissed the media’s fainting frenzy:
Asked about Trump's tweet saying Sen. Gillibrand “would do anything” for campaign contributions, Sanders says: "He's used that same terminology many times in reference to men. There's no way that this is sexist at all." pic.twitter.com/FxpNGp7YxH
— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 12, 2017
Flashback:
https://twitter.com/NoahCRothman/status/940666738206826497
Sanders also said this:
"Only if your mind is in the gutter," Sarah Sanders says of those who thought POTUS was suggesting something salacious by saying Gillibrand "would do anything" for campaign contributions.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 12, 2017
.@PressSec to a Q about how some people are interpreting the President’s tweet re @SenGillibrand as sexual innuendo:
“Only if your mind is in the gutter would you have read it that way.”
— Karen Travers (@karentravers) December 12, 2017
"Only if your mind is in the gutter would you have read it that way," says @PressSec of seeing anything sexual in @POTUS tweet that @SenGillibrand "would do anything" for a campaign contribution.
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) December 12, 2017
Trump may very well have a woman problem, but if his tweet at Gillibrand is the Left and media’s best evidence of his sexism, then the Left and the media have a problem of their own.
https://twitter.com/NoahCRothman/status/940666994034167808
Trump treats pretty much everyone like garbage, @SenGillibrand. For you, @SenWarren, @Alyssa_Milano, and other hysterical "feminists" to trot out the woman-card in response is just as contemptible. Does nothing but water down actual instances of "shaming."
— Sister Delecto Toldjah ? (@sistertoldjah) December 12, 2017
Only one person today called Gillibrand a slut.
Her name is Elizabeth Warren.
Because, no matter how BADLY you want it to not be the case, words mean things.
— RBe (@RBPundit) December 12, 2017