White House press secretary Sarah Sanders denied a reporter’s claim Monday that President Donald Trump was trying to hide the fact that he had a luncheon with leaders of the NRA.
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The Daily Mail’s Francesca Chambers asked Sanders why Trump chose to keep the luncheon off his official schedule even though he’s an open supporter of the NRA.
Sanders denied that the president was trying to conceal the meeting, especially considering he publicly disclosed that he had it during Monday’s governors luncheon.
“It was on Sunday. The president wasn’t trying to keep it under wraps or he wouldn’t announced it. It was a productive conversation,” Sanders asserted. “Everybody is in agreement that things need to be done and we have to have changes to take place to do what we can to protect America’s kids.”
Sanders also strongly rejected the notion that the NRA was singularly capable of changing the president’s mind on any issue, stating, “to try to pretend that he’s being influenced by any one group is ridiculous considering the number of individuals that he’s met with that come from the far left to the far right.”