Sarah Sanders: ‘Cheap attempt’ by Democrats to compare Niger to Benghazi

“These are not comparable events. I know that the Democrats want to make this a big, negative attack piece against this president. Look, this is still an active investigation. We’re still in review. I think Gen. Dunford did an incredible job yesterday kinda laying out the facts of what we know at this point, but to try to compare the two is simply just a cheap attempt by the Democrats to taint this president,” Sanders told Fox News’ “Fox and Friends” Tuesday morning.

Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Fla., is a personal friend to one of the four men who were killed in the Niger attack, Army Sgt. La David Johnson. Last week, Wilson proposed Niger could be Trump’s Benghazi.

However, William Wright, the brother of Green Beret Staff Sgt. Dustin Wright who was also killed in Niger, disagreed with Wilson’s assessment.

“I for one having experience in these situations — I don’t see it as a Benghazi situation. That was very different, where Americans were denied support by Americans. And it was highly controversial. And that was not war. It was a diplomat and his staff,” Wright told CNN on Monday. “This was a special operations detachment doing a mission that they were tasked to do and in a very hostile environment.”

On Tuesday, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford told reporters that air support didn’t arrive until two hours after the soldiers came under fire because they waited an hour to call for help. He also acknowledged that the group did not have real-time aerial surveillance that could have seen the hostile forces preparing to attack.