Jun 13, 2019

Sarah Sanders is leaving the White House

Zachary Basu

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders is leaving her post at the end of the month, President Trump announced on Twitter Thursday.

"After 3 1/2 years, our wonderful Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be leaving the White House at the end of the month and going home to the Great State of Arkansas. She is a very special person with extraordinary talents, who has done an incredible job! I hope she decides to run for Governor of Arkansas - she would be fantastic. Sarah, thank you for a job well done!"

Why it matters: Sanders has long been one of President Trump's fiercest and most loyal defenders, and she became notorious for her combative exchanges with reporters and — toward the latter part of her tenure — lack of press briefings (it's been 94 days since the last one). As Axios' Jonathan Swan notes, by the end, Sanders wasn't really a press secretary. She was a top adviser who Trump consulted on just about everything.

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