White House press secretary Sarah Sanders issued a rare correction Tuesday for misstating a fact from the podium in the briefing room.
“Correction from today’s briefing: Jobs numbers for Pres Trump and Pres Obama were correct, but the time frame for Pres Obama wasn’t,” Sanders wrote on Twitter. “I’m sorry for the mistake, but no apologies for the 700,000 jobs for African Americans created under President Trump.”
Correction from today’s briefing: Jobs numbers for Pres Trump and Pres Obama were correct, but the time frame for Pres Obama wasn’t. I’m sorry for the mistake, but no apologies for the 700,000 jobs for African Americans created under President Trump https://t.co/EXGvbliwlS
— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) August 15, 2018
During Tuesday’s press briefing, Sanders said former President Barack Obama created 195,000 jobs for African-Americans during his eight years in office, according to the White House’s official transcript. Figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, however, suggest the Obama administration added 3.2 million jobs for the group to the economy, per CNBC.
Sanders also shared a tweet from the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers apologizing for its “earlier miscommunication” to the top communications aide along with additional data.
Sanders made the mistake in response to a question regarding whether she could personally guarantee a tape did not exist of Trump using a racially-charged slur.
