April Ryan left fuming over Sarah Sanders: 'Why am I singled out?'
by Eddie Scarry
| May 04, 2018 12:48 PM
April Ryan, a CNN contributor and White House reporter for American Urban Radio Networks, is accusing White House press secretary Sarah Sanders of targeting her personally with what she sees as a threat of physical violence.
"Why is it I'm asking similar types of questions like all the rest of the room [of reporters] but she’s coming at me that way?" Ryan asked in an interview Friday with the Washington Examiner. "Why? What did I do differently than anyone?"
Ryan, a veteran on the White House beat, gets in regular confrontations with White House officials, including Sanders and former communications aide Omarosa Manigault.
Ryan on Thursday got in another one with Sanders at the day's press briefing after asserting that Sanders had been "blindsided" by new White House lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who had said President Trump reimbursed another one of his lawyers for payments to the porn actress Stormy Daniels. Sanders had said she wasn't aware of the reimbursements until she saw Giuliani talking about them on Fox News.
"You were blindsided," Ryan insisted to Sanders. "You said yourself you were blindsided."
"I actually didn't use that term," Sanders replied.
"Well, I said it, but you were blindsided, from what you said," said Ryan.
"Well, with all due respect, you actually don’t know much about me in terms of what I feel and what I don’t," said Sanders before moving on.
That night on CNN, Ryan suggested that Sanders was provoking violence.
“For Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the presidential spokesperson, the mouthpiece for the president of the United States, to say, ‘You don’t know me,’ in certain quarters in this nation, that starts a physical fight,†she said. “I was very shocked. It was street. I will even go beyond that, it was gutter.â€
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