Sarah Huckabee Sanders' Brother Hanged a Dog at Camp

Sarah Huckabee Sanders' brother, David Huckabee, hanged a dog at camp when he was 17. His father, then Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, tried mightily to squelch the news by pressuring law enforcement, but multiple accounts emerged that David was involved in the dog's death. When he was 26, David was arrested in Little Rock for trying to board an airplane with a gun.

I thought everybody knew this and some of you may, but a well informed person I talked to recently had no idea, so I thought I'd better get the news out there because it's hard to understand President Trump's spokesperson's moral compass without understanding something about her family.

Understand, first of all, that I was raised by wolves. Not everybody raised by wolves becomes a wolf.

David Huckabee may have been born a psychopath if he is one. Environment doesn't explain everything. The confluence of genetics and environment in personality development is complex. But regardless, hanging a dog is unusual behavior. Michael Vick, the football player who executed multiple dogs (and took extra hard hits on the football field, according to my husband, because of his actions) might be able to relate, but few of the rest of us can. Cruelty to animals is one of the four characteristics of serial killers. Someone published a political cartoon showing the obese, looming Huckabee family "eating" the more numerous but slim Romney family. I laughed, but the image was disturbing.

Sarah Huckabee's ability to twist the truth and lie with ease on her feet is a bit startling.

Her latest feat was to challenge a journalist who challenged her defense of General Kelly's inaccurate verbal attack against a black Congresswoman who listened in on Pres. Trump's disastrous phone call to the widow of La David Johnson, a Navy Seal killed in a secret mission in Niger. "If you want to get into it with a four-star Marine general, I think that's highly inappropriate," she said.

Another journalist, Martha Raddatz on "This Week" (ABC on 10/22/17) asked retired four-star General David Petraeus if it was "highly inappropriate" to question a four-star general. He said, "We're fair game" and questioning generals is entirely appropriate. Military commanders takes their orders from civilian presidents.

Sarah seems to fall easily into the pace and tenor of Pres. Trump's quest for autocracy. That must be why he hasn't fired her yet, although firing people seems to be one of his favorite blood sports. I'm not sure he knows he's no longer the master of ceremonies on his TV show, "The Apprentice."