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Topic: White House press briefing

US President Donald Trump answers question during a press conference in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on August 5, 2020. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump caught flat-footed

Cody Fenwick - Alternet
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a news briefing at the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House July 28, 2020 in Washington, DC. The president announced that Eastman Kodak will receive a loan to manufacture ingredients used in pharmaceuticals. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

5 standout moments from Trump's briefing

Alex Henderson - Alternet
President Donald Trump talks to journalists during a news conference about his administration's response to the ongoing global coronavirus pandemic in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House July 22, 2020 in Washington, DC. This is the second briefing the president has given in as many days. Poll numbers about his handling of COVID-19 have been falling as cases of deadly virus have spiked across the country. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins runs Trump out

Cody Fenwick - Alternet
Press secretary Ari Fleischer, "American Experience: George W. Bush" panel for PBS at TCA press tour (PBS)

Why Fleischer is anti-press briefings

Melanie McFarland
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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders talks with reporters outside the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Sanders spreads false Flynn narrative

Shira Tarlo
Sarah Huckabee Sanders (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Sanders wants to be remembered as honest

Shira Tarlo
(Getty/Chip Somodevilla)

Boycott Trump's press briefings

Amanda Marcotte
Paul Manafort; Donald Trump; Michael Cohen (Getty/Elsa/Rick Loomis/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

White House does not rule out pardons

Shira Tarlo
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders (AP/Evan Vucci)

Seth Meyers taunts Sarah Sanders on lies

Rachel Leah
(Getty/Chip Somodevilla)

Unplug the televised press briefings

Charlie May
(The White House/YouTube)

A journalist's thanksgiving surprse

Chris Sosa - Alternet
Sarah Huckabee Sanders (AP/Evan Vucci)

Another rough Sanders briefing

Taylor Link
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders (AP/Evan Vucci)

Huckabee Sanders plays dodgeball

Taylor Link
Sarah Huckabee Sanders (AP/Evan Vucci)

Sarah Sanders' depraved press briefing

Leigh C. Anderson
(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Networks shun of Sean Spicer

Charlie May
Pauly Shore as Stephen Miller (Funny or Die)

Shore becomes Stephen Miller

Taylor Link
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders (AP/Susan Walsh)

Don't blame it on me

Charlie May
(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

unplug the white house

Eric Boehlert - Media Matters
Sarah Huckabee Sanders (AP/Susan Walsh)

white house: let's "move on"

Charlie May
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, right, accompanied by White House press secretary Sean Spicer, talks to the media during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, March 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) (AP)

Sessions' sanctuary crackdown

Sophia Tesfaye
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