Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said on Sunday that White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway’s efforts to spin President Trump’s “abundant falsehoods” are “corrosive to our democracy.”
“What Kellyanne Conway and Sarah Huckabee Sanders are doing — taking the President’s abundant falsehoods and trying to weave them into some alternate ‘truth’ — is corrosive to our democracy and among the most destructive features of this Administration,” Schiff, a frequent critic of the president, said in a tweet on Sunday.
{mosads}Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, and Sanders recently exchanged jabs after Schiff said that leaked questions from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation show the investigation is focused on Trump’s possible obstruction of justice.
Sanders then took a shot at Schiff by saying that the White House tries “never to be concerned with anything dealing with Adam Schiff.”
Schiff then responded by asking why, if that is true, “won’t the President agree to an interview with Bob Mueller?”
Conway, meanwhile, said Sunday that she doesn’t believe the Trump White House has a credibility problem.
When pressed on CNN’s “State of the Union” about Trump’s falsehoods, Conway insisted “the president doesn’t lie.”