Rep. Charlie Dent, R-Pa., said Thursday Rudy Giuliani’s Stormy Daniels revelations raises questions about how White House press secretary Sarah Sanders can credibly do her job when she is directed to issue falsehoods from the podium.
“I guess at some point you have to ask the question, how does Sarah Huckabee Sanders go to work every day if she was sent out there to mislead the American people?” Dent said during an interview on CNN.
Sanders has continued to defend Trump against allegations he was connected to a $130,000 payment made to porn star Daniels by Michael Cohen, one of Trump’s personal attorneys, as part of a nondisclosure agreement signed days before the 2016 election.
Trump himself also denied the claims leveled against him until a tweet Thursday morning in which he wrote the money was aimed at keeping Daniels from making “false accusations” that she and Trump had an affair more than a decade ago.
The admission follows Giuliani, a new addition to Trump’s personal legal team, telling Fox News Wednesday that Trump repaid Cohen the $130,000 given to Daniels via a shell company called Essential Consultants LLC.
“Well, it is clear that somebody wasn’t telling the truth, either Sarah Huckabee Sanders or the president,” Dent told CNN Thursday, adding it was his belief that Sanders “was told to say” what she said.
“And I believe what Rudy Giuliani said just last night, that in fact Michael Cohen was reimbursed by the president for this hush payment, this hush money payment. That’s quite clear,” he continued.
Dent is retiring as a member of Congress in May.
