{"id":992,"date":"2018-05-12T12:12:24","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T16:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/?p=992"},"modified":"2018-05-12T12:12:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T16:12:24","slug":"heres-how-sarah-sanders-responded-to-reports-of-a-white-house-staffer-mocking-john-mccain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/?p=992","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s how Sarah Sanders responded to reports of a White House staffer mocking John McCain"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Christina Prignano<\/a><\/span>\u00a0GLOBE STAFF \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders is not apologizing over a White House staffer\u2019s reported disparaging remarks about the ailing Senator John McCain.<\/p>\n

In a Friday afternoon briefing, Sanders said she would not comment on multiple reports that communications aide Kelly Sadler mocked McCain\u2019s opposition to President Trump\u2019s CIA pick by telling colleagues, \u201cit doesn\u2019t matter, he\u2019s dying anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sanders would not address the issue except to say that she wouldn\u2019t comment on an \u201cinternal staff meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n

She told reporters she\u2019s \u2018\u2018not going to validate a leak out of an internal staff meeting one way or the other.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

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Pressed by reporters, Sanders said Sadler remains on staff at the White House.<\/p>\n