Sarah Sanders once said she hoped to be remembered as an 'honest and transparent' White House press secretary. Writing for CNNopinion, former White House press secretary joelockhart says 'it's safe to say that her hopes were misplaced'
Joe Lockhart was White House press secretary from 1998-2000 in President Bill Clinton's administration. He co-hosts the podcast "Words Matter." The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion at CNN.
Sarah Sanders said last December that when her role as White House press secretary ends, she hopes to be remembered as"honest and transparent." I'm afraid she's going to be remembered quite differently because of the actions of her boss, President Donald Trump, and her own failures to live up to the obligations of the office.
With Thursday's announcement that Sanders is leaving the White House at the end of June -- and looking back at the two years that she has spent there -- it's safe to say that her hopes were misplaced. Read MoreShe has failed in almost every aspect of the job. Let me use several examples to make that point. One job that the White House press secretary has is to promote the President's agenda and try to put the President in the best possible position to make his case.
Trump announces Sarah Sanders leaving White House at the end of the month 01:53 The more important job is to keep the American public, the same public who fund her salary, informed through the traditional daily White House Briefing. For more than half a century, reporters, acting as proxy for the American public, would meet with the White House press secretary for a briefing almost every day. That came to a screeching halt under Sanders' watch.
Sanders: We're 'always prepared' for impeachment fight 00:46 But that's not the worst of it. When the Mueller Report was released, and she was no longer under oath, she backtracked on her story, reverting to key parts of the lie she'd already admitted to. That shows she lacked the moral character to be in such an important job in the United States Government.
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