Yet another media fake news story has been debunked!
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders defended her Southern honor and proved all her skeptics wrong about the whole #PieGate controversy – the woman truly can make a beautiful homemade pecan pie on her own.
The big pie scandal all began back on Thanksgiving when the press secretary tweeted out a picture of the pie she had just made.
I️ dont cook much these days, but managed this Chocolate Pecan Pie for Thanksgiving at the family farm! pic.twitter.com/rO8nFxtly7
— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) November 23, 2017
Some people thought that yummy looking pie was too good to be true and accused Sanders of using a stock photo or taking a picture of a store bought pie. One reporter in particular, CNN Analyst April Ryan, challenged her for proof.
Show it to us on a table. https://t.co/ifeSBlSZW7
— AprilDRyan (@AprilDRyan) November 24, 2017
In another sign of the sad, sorry state of affairs in America, #PieGate even started trending on Twitter.
I am not trying to be funny but folks are already saying #piegate and #fakepie Show it to us on the table with folks eating it and a pic of you cooking it. I am getting the biggest laugh out of this. I am thankful for this laugh on Black Friday! https://t.co/ifeSBlSZW7
— AprilDRyan (@AprilDRyan) November 24, 2017
Yes, this is really the type of crap people get riled up about on Twitter.
But now Sanders has provided proof. Ahead of the annual White House Press Corps Christmas potluck, she tweeted to Ryan that she was about to make pies.
It’s pie time! With or without bourbon @AprilDRyan? #piegate pic.twitter.com/2xw58FDFg6
— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) December 14, 2017
But even then Ryan didn’t seem convinced.
Okay I want to see the pics and videos. I will check it tomorrow but won’t eat it! https://t.co/5dcXVNzcuC
— AprilDRyan (@AprilDRyan) December 14, 2017
So Sanders set about tweeting photos of her making the pies, step by step.
Thanks to @VP Chief of Staff @Nick_Ayers for supplying the pecans from his family farm in Georgia #piegate pic.twitter.com/Lx7LpMwF4V
— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) 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
— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) December 14, 2017
Finally the reporter started coming around.
See that is what I am talking about. Wow! #piegate https://t.co/47BnPYDk1F
— AprilDRyan (@AprilDRyan) December 14, 2017
Excited to share these at tomorrow’s press potluck. Merry Christmas to the WH press corps! pic.twitter.com/PKqfHk3nXJ
— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) December 14, 2017
But now that she knows Sanders made the pies, Ryan’s still too nervous to eat them because “you guys don’t like the press.”
Oh I can’t wait to see them! They look pretty! https://t.co/TMaj0f6PU1
— AprilDRyan (@AprilDRyan) December 14, 2017
I think she was honestly scared of what Sanders would put in her pies for the press.
This has been such an interesting week. Today is #piegate pt 2. I am going to see @PressSec pies. Can’t wait! Oh what joy and bliss! I will send you guys pics & video. As I said to @PressSec she may be able to burn in the kitchen but I won’t be eating. Burn is a good thing!
— AprilDRyan (@AprilDRyan) December 14, 2017
Finally the moment of truth arrived and Sanders delivered her pies to the press.
At White House Christmas basement party, @PressSec and @AprilDRyan declare festive end to #piegate. pic.twitter.com/rkDCqUo4n6
— Fred Lucas (@FredLucasWH) December 14, 2017
— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) December 15, 2017
Ryan was pleased by the gesture and pledged that it would signal a reset in the relationship between the White House Press Corps and press secretary. Yeah, we’ll see how long that lasts…
It was a wonderful reset gesture from the @PressSec to bake 4 pretty pies for us. We are building for better on all sides. Watch the video! https://t.co/FEQtsjdHGl
— AprilDRyan (@AprilDRyan) December 14, 2017
Pie-gate 2017 comes to an end as @PressSec Sarah Sanders presents @AprilDRyan with homemade Chocolate pecan pie pic.twitter.com/bMhN0DhncA
— Michelle Moons (@MichelleDiana) December 14, 2017
I don’t know how Sanders does it every day. If I had to put up with a hostile press I wouldn’t be baking them pies, I’d be more likely to hit them with a pie to the face!
Just goes to show Sarah Huckabee Sanders is a better person – and baker – than me.
What do you think: Will the end of #PieGate usher in a new era with the White House Briefing Room or will the press continue to attack and spread #FakeNews? Tell us in the comments below!