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Things got super-heated on Sunday during ABC’s This Week, as the White House’s Principal Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders locked horns with Martha Raddatz over the media hypocrisy with selectively picking which anonymous sources they’ll run with. “Why does he believe these articles that you say you cite, and I'm saying, ‘they are not definitive.’” Raddatz chided, seemingly in disgust, “And Heat Street, they have two sources with links to the counterintelligence community. That's it. Anonymous sources.”
The flare up happened as a result of President Donald Trump using such reports to dubiously claim that the Obama administration ordered the wiretapping of Trump Tower.
ABC’s fill-in moderator continue to berate her guest noting that Trump didn’t like the media’s use of anonymous sources to back up her anger. “I love how anonymous sources don't count when it's something that's positive in this administration and against the former one. You guys use anonymous sources every single day,” Huckabee Sanders shot back, “But now that there are new anonymous sources it doesn’t matter.”
“Yes, yes, we do. Yes, we do,” Raddatz responded, showing her approval of the practice. “The Washington Post says this morning that “senior US officials with knowledge of wide-ranging federal investigation into Russian interference into the election said there had been no wiretap,” she claimed, again using unnamed and faceless sources.