True to her job description, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders has been a staunch defender — and spinner — of President Trump’s policies and actions.

So it was more of the same at Politico’s Women Rule Summit, where Sanders was asked about the way Trump has interacted with female journalists.

White House reporter Eliana Johnson, who was moderating the discussion, asked Sanders whether she found the president’s “contentious” interactions with women in the press corps appropriate.

“The president’s had an equal number of contentious conversations with your male colleagues,” Sanders told Johnson. “Women wanted to be treated equally, and we have a president that certainly does that.”

Sanders said the president is “certainly not singling out women,” and she called the framing of Johnson’s question a “detriment.”

But women in the press corps have often been targets of the president’s insults. To describe female journalists and cable-news hosts, he has used words such as “nasty” and “crazy.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/12/why-does-trump-insult-some-female-journalists-equality-sarah-sanders-says/?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.f3ff7b534ef9&noredirect=on