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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Confirms: MAGA Covington Students Invited to the White House

Tuesday afternoon Fox News’s Laura Ingraham tweeted that the students from Covington Catholic who were involved in a confrontation with a Native American elder over the weekend, have been invited to the White House.

Now White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has confirmed that.

This evening CNN’s Abby Phillip tweeted, “Sarah Sanders says that WH has reached out to the Covington Catholic kids and invited them to the WH but any meeting would take place after the shutdown.”

Trump weighed in on the controversy last night and this morning, saying the students were “smeared” by the media and that they are symbols of how “evil” the “Fake News” can be:

The student who is seen smirking at indigenous activist Nathan Phillips, Nicholas Sandmann, has given an interview to NBC where he says he has no reason apologize.

“Do you feel from this experience that you owe anybody an apology?” NBC’s Savannah Guthrie asked Sandmann, who stared down the 64-year-old Phillips on Friday as he beat a drum for the Indigenous Peoples’ March in Washington, D.C. “Do you see your own fault in any way?”

“As far as standing there, I had every right to do,” Sandmann replied. “My position is that I was not disrespectful to Mr. Phillips. I respect him, I’d like to talk to him.”

The Catholic students, who were there as a group to support the anti-abortion March for Life protest, were approached by Phillips after he and other indigenous protesters marched in-between the high schoolers and a group of aggressive Black Israelite cultists to diffuse the situation. The students can then be seen dancing, shouting in chants, and making tomahawk chop arm motions as Phillips beats away at his drum.

“In hindsight, I wish we could have walked away and avoided that whole thing,” added the high school junior, whose smirk — while donning a Make America Great Again hat — in the face of Phillips has become a viral image.

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