Trump says Press Secretary Sanders to leave White House

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders will be leaving the Trump administration at the end of the month.

FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2019, file photo, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington. President Donald Trump says Sanders is leaving her job as press secretary at the end of June. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)Read moreEvan Vucci / AP

by Associated Press, The Associated Press

Published Jun. 13, 2019, 4:28 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON — White House press secretary Sarah Sanders will be leaving the Trump administration at the end of the month.

President Donald Trump announced the news on Twitter on Wednesday. He has not immediately named a successor and says Sanders will be returning to her home state of Arkansas.

Sanders is one of the president’s closest and most trusted White House aides and one of the few remaining who worked on his campaign.

Her tenure was marked by a breakdown in regular White House press briefings and questions about the administration’s credibility.

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation revealed that Sanders admitted to investigators that she had made an unfounded claim that “countless” FBI agents had reached out to express support for Trump’s decision to fire FBI Director James Comey in May 2017.