On Thanksgiving, unassuming and completely normal housewife who totally doesn’t lie to the American people for a living Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted a picture of a pie that she said she made against a white background.
Thinking it looked like a screencap of a basic baking website, which it did, journalist April D. Ryan called into question the veracity of the photo, tweeting back to Sanders that she wanted to see it on a table. And thus, #piegate began.
Wednesday night, Sanders shot back with heavy Twitter artillery for Christmas. The White House press corps holiday potluck is this week, for which Sanders says she baked pies, tweeting a new photo of picturesque ingredients on a wooden table and trolling Ryan by asking if she preferred hers with or without bourbon.
It’s pie time! With or without bourbon @AprilDRyan? #piegate pic.twitter.com/2xw58FDFg6
— Kayleigh McEnany 45 Archived (@PressSec45) December 14, 2017
Sanders followed that up by Tweeting out play-by-play images of her really, truly, actually, please-believe-me making the baked goods for posterity’s sake.
Thanks to @VP Chief of Staff @Nick_Ayers for supplying the pecans from his family farm in Georgia #piegate pic.twitter.com/Lx7LpMwF4V
— Kayleigh McEnany 45 Archived (@PressSec45) December 14, 2017
Ingredients all mixed up and pies in the oven! @AprilDRyan let me know if you need further documentation #piegate pic.twitter.com/OVYLg1gBgO
— Kayleigh McEnany 45 Archived (@PressSec45) December 14, 2017
Excited to share these at tomorrow’s press potluck. Merry Christmas to the WH press corps! pic.twitter.com/PKqfHk3nXJ
— Kayleigh McEnany 45 Archived (@PressSec45) December 14, 2017
Ryan tweeted her satisfaction with the available evidence.
See that is what I am talking about. Wow! #piegate https://t.co/47BnPYDk1F
— AprilDRyan (@AprilDRyan) December 14, 2017
But, no, a few pie truthers on Twitter still weren’t buying it.
Ma’am we are closing soon, if could you take that last picture, thanks for visiting William Sonoma…😏
— Christian Miranda (@XtianMiranda) December 14, 2017
But who tied those ribbons???? #piegatepartdeux
— AllAbout19 💪🏀☘️💍 (@Kirschbomb) December 14, 2017
Exactly! I could find these pics online easily! Let’s see @PressSec beating those eggs!!!!
— blakcoffee (@blakcoffee) December 14, 2017
They look fine but clearly dif from the one you supposedly made last time https://t.co/ZKXwgm0xzp
— Facki (@fackinpeter) December 14, 2017
@PressSec just admit you didn’t make that particular pie or take that particular pic, whichever it is. It is OKAY if you bought a pie instead of baking one! No one’s judging you for that! Just for pretending!
— Emi (@2017whyjeebus) December 14, 2017
It seems like you can’t make everyone happy, but at least one of the biggest political scandals of the holiday season, seems to be put to rest . . . for now. And so ends another busy day in the life of a 100-percent normal woman who does press, prays and bakes pies.
