President Trump announced on Twitter about half an hour ago the departure of White House Press. Sec. Sarah Sanders.

The Hill reports:

Sarah Huckabee Sanders will leave her post as White House press secretary at the end of the month, President Trump announced on Thursday.

Sanders’s departure caps off a tumultuous, two-year run as Trump’s top spokeswoman, marked by tensions with the White House press corps and the disappearance of the daily news briefing. During that time, however, Sanders became one of Trump’s closest aides and fiercest defenders.

Noting she’d be leaving by the end of the month, Trump praised her and said he hoped she’d run for the governor’s seat in Arkansas:

After 3 1/2 years, our wonderful Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be leaving the White House at the end of the month and going home to the Great State of Arkansas….

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 13, 2019

….She is a very special person with extraordinary talents, who has done an incredible job! I hope she decides to run for Governor of Arkansas – she would be fantastic. Sarah, thank you for a job well done!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 13, 2019

Her father Mike Huckabee was the Lt. Gov. of Arkansas from Nov. 1993 to July 1996 and was the Gov. of the state from July 1996 to Jan. 2007.

Former Gov. Huckabee posted this quip for his Twitter followers after Trump’s announcement:

Well, @realDonaldTrump is losing @PressSec who is a great one and I say that with as much objectivity as Fake News CNN has toward @POTUS https://t.co/Gxnrwc43pP

— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) June 13, 2019

Arkansas’s current Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson will be term-limited in 2022 which is the year the seat will be up for grabs.

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