Once upon a time there was a White House Press Secretary named Sarah Huckabee Sanders who bullied the national press from behind a podium.
Being Trumpite royalty she was able to serve up lies daily about what Trump was supposedly doing for the benefit of the American people. Her smackdown of reporters was a vicious and awesome thing to witness.
When Saturday Night Live did a skit of her behind a motorized Podium chasing reporters, I almost passed out from laughing so hard. After that Sanders became a meme and the target of mockery among the majority of Americans.
It must have been a nightmare for her. Then she quit (I'm still not clear why) and lost her Podium of Power. One can only imagine the grief and suffering she went through.
But Sanders wasn't done yet.
She ran for governor of Arkansas because it was a wholly owned subsidiary of her father a former governor and was heavily populated by MAGA morons. And she was elected.
Her regime thus far has been rocky, and she's managed to burn up all the good will among her Republican cohorts by bulldozing her legislative agenda through the Republican majority House and Senate.
Something happened in June when Sanders took a trade delegation (consisting of political cronies) to Paris, France to drum up business for the state. Some skullduggery was discovered by a lawyer/blogger named Matt Campbell who publishes a blog called the Blue Hog Report.
Campbell filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the records from the trip. In turn he got very limited report, so he sued to get all the records. Two days later Sanders called a special session of the state legislature to make a dramatic revision of the state's FOIA.
Enter the podium. Yes, a podium has come back to haunt Sanders this October. Campbell had discovered Sander's office paid almost $20,000 for a... wait for it...PODIUM!
So now there's a scary scandal that has left Sanders thrashing around like a beached whale on a dark and stormy night.
Get this... at first no one saw the podium. It didn't seem to exist (Ghostly soundtrack in the background). When someone finally produced a podium, it was the same podium she used when she was inaugurated governor.
So where did the $20,000 disappear to? Republicans in Arkansas are pissed about the whole slimy affair and are looking into it.
As it stands, I wonder if Sanders has nightmares with podiums coming after her?
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