Sarah Sanders Uses Bible to Defend Trump’s Heinous Policy of Ripping Apart Families Seeking Asylum

The White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, is best known for her ability to dispassionately lie about any matter that arises in the course of the daily press briefings. It’s a skill that most of the rabid zealots in Donald Trump’s administration sorely lack. But it often comes across as callous when the subject requires some measure of empathy.

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That was exhibited in spades on Thursday as Sanders was questioned about the heart-wrenching policy that Trump has enacted to rip crying children from the arms of their terrified parents. This policy has drawn broad condemnation from across the political spectrum, yet Trump and Co. refuse to halt its enforcement. That position took a peculiar turn when Attorney General Jeff Sessions cited a bible verse to justify his nauseating actions. However, the quotation he addressed only referred to obedience of the law, but made no reference to tearing families apart. Even Trump-supporting evangelical Franklin Graham called the policy “disgraceful.” At the daily press briefing, Sanders was asked by CNN’s Jim Acosta to comment on the remarks by Sessions (video below):

Acosta: On these children that are being separated from their families as they come across the border, the Attorney General earlier today said that somehow there is justification for this in the bible. Where does it say in the Bible that it’s moral to take children away from their mothers?
Sanders: I’m not aware of the Attorney General’s comment or what he would be referencing. I can say say that it is very biblical to enforce the law. That is actually repeated a number of times throughout the Bible.
Acosta: You just said it’s in the bible to follow the law…
Sanders: That’s not what I said. And I know it’s hard for you to understand even short sentences, I guess.

Huh? That’s exactly what she said just seconds before denying that she said it. This is advanced level gaslighting. And in the process of flagrantly lying about what she just said, Sanders delivers a wholly inappropriate insult with regard to Acosta’s ability to understand her short (dishonest) sentences. It’s notable that other reporters raised the same inquiries, but Acosta, a Latino reporter from CNN, was the only one she insulted. And if Sanders is looking for an appropriate bible verse to quote, she might try this one referring to refugees (sojourners) from Leviticus (19:33-34) which, when President Obama cited it, Fox News went berserk:

“33. And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not do him wrong. 34. The stranger that sojourneth with you shall be unto you as the home-born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt.”

Sanders then went on to accuse Democrats of being responsible for the law requiring the separation of undocumented children from their parents. But there is no such law. It is being done as a result of an arbitrary policy implemented solely by the Trump administration. Nevertheless, Sanders said that Trump has called on Democrats to change the (nonexistent) law. But she fails to explain how Democrats could do that when they are in the minority and have no power to introduce or pass such legislation. Likewise, she ignores why Republicans, who do have the power, don’t just change the law themselves. Since they have the majority, they could make this issue go away overnight. What’s stopping them?

Among the other journalists questioning Sanders about this were Paula Reid of CBS, who advised Sanders, in vain, that there was no law mandating the separation of children. Also Brian Karem of Sentinel Newspapers made an impassioned plea asking “Sarah, you’re a parent. Don’t you have empathy for what these people are going through?” Sanders responded by recognizing a different reporter for an unrelated question. And that’s fairly typical of how she and Trump deal with difficult issues that require compassion and some expression of humanity.

Also brought up in the briefing were reports that Sanders and her deputy, Raj Shah, are planning their exit from the White House sometime this year. She would neither confirm nor deny the reports, but still criticized the reporting. We’ll see what she say when she actually leaves, which is all but certain. And we’ll also see what direction Trump will take when he names her replacement. I’m betting on Kimberly Guilfoyle of Fox News since she’s already sleeping with Don, Jr.

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7 thoughts on “Sarah Sanders Uses Bible to Defend Trump’s Heinous Policy of Ripping Apart Families Seeking Asylum

  1. Hitler and his mob also were simply following the law, THEIR VERSION OF IT. They did this completely disregarding the rule of human laws called humanity.
    The Trumpeters are simply following the law, THIER VERSION OF IT. Similarly disregarding the rule of human laws also called humanity.

    For those of you who believe in a god, you will burn in hell. For those of you who are just despicable, sadistc animals there is not a sub hell for that is where you all belong.

  2. Bovine Sarah also had these choice morsels (or cud chews) for thought:

    “It’s a moral policy to follow and enforce the law.”

    “It’s not a policy change to enforce the law. That’s been this administration’s policy since the day we got here. ”

    “We would like to fix the broken system and fix our immigration problem. However, until Democrats are willing to actually fix this problem, it’s going to continue. But we would like to see it fixed. “

    How DARE this cow talk about a “moral policy” from an administration that has no morals. Anyway, pretty sure every response she made had at least one lie and more likely, two. Which means she may have won the D!ck Cheney School of Lies Fellowship Award.

    And, we cannot help but notice she yet again managed to blame the Democrats, like the good little Trump buttkisser she is, despite the fact that ReThuglican Policy regarding immigrants is pure and simple: GET THE F*CK OUT!!

    Actually, Sarah, YOU get the f*ck out. Either now, or when Your Beloved God and Master decides you’re not enough of a buttkisser for his taste. Which is going to happen sooner or later. We ALL know this.

    • What happened to the separation of church and state? I guess when you have a leader that speaks for the bottom of hell, that is exactly what we get.

  3. Sanders is the waitress here. Can we stop attacking the waitress for the shitty restaurant?? Could anyone do a good job at being Trump’s Press Secretary when the job itself is to justify Trump?? Seriously folks, we do a disservice when We don’t stick to the facts, ie. Sanders’ job description.

    • Nancy, Sanders is complicit, she could leave if she felt compelled to due to the immorality, lies and unethical policies this administration dwells in, but she chooses to stay on and blindly defend Trump…therefore she is more than qualified in her own choosing to be the Trump ‘waitress’…to be criticized and castigated…

    • Nancy:

      What are people called when they do immoral , according to the bible things, for money? Figuratively sell them selves for money? Hmmmm?
      Thou shalt not lie is one of the 10 commandments. Does Sanders commit blasphemy/ She is using the bible as her source for her ludicrous remarks.

  4. Sanders should explain why she and the Evangelicals gave a standing ovation to this 5 time Draft-Dodger on Christmas day 2016 in Christ’s Home/church, in Florida, while ignoring the First four Commandments. Read each of them, and have Sarah, a minister’s kid, say why it was fine to welcome the anti-Christ by totally disobeying the Four Commandments. No Christian would ever put Christ in second place to a mere man.

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