When Sarah Huckabee Sanders posted a photo of a chocolate pecan pie she baked for Thanksgiving it set off a wave of skepticism and launched the attribution of #PieGate on Twitter over whether or not Sanders actually baked the pie.
I️ dont cook much these days, but managed this Chocolate Pecan Pie for Thanksgiving at the family farm! pic.twitter.com/rO8nFxtly7
— Kayleigh McEnany (@PressSec) November 23, 2017
None was more dogged in getting to the bottom of #PiGate than CNN contributor and White House correspondent April Ryan.
Show it to us on a table. https://t.co/ifeSBlSZW7
— AprilDRyan (@AprilDRyan) November 24, 2017
Sanders took the ribbing and said she would document from start to finish her baking the pies the next time. On Thursday the time came to prepare for the
It’s pie time! With or without bourbon @AprilDRyan? #piegate pic.twitter.com/2xw58FDFg6
— Kayleigh McEnany (@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
— Kayleigh McEnany (@PressSec) 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 (@PressSec) December 14, 2017
Ryan was impressed and said while she wasn’t going to eat the pie, she saw the pie making as “a reset.”
“It was a joke in the beginning. It went awry. But I look at this as a reset. I think this is an honest attempt by you to reach out to us.”
Sanders agreed and said she tries to reach out to the press every day.
Pie-gate 2017 comes to an end as @PressSec Sarah Sanders presents @AprilDRyan with homemade Chocolate pecan pie pic.twitter.com/bMhN0DhncA
— Michelle Moons Dawi (@MichelleDiana) December 14, 2017
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