WASHINGTON _ President Donald Trump is too busy running the country to weigh in personally on the Stormy Daniels accusations, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters on Tuesday.
Aides aren't saying whether Trump watched Sunday's "60 Minutes" interview on CBS, in which Daniels told of a sexual encounter she had with Trump in 2006, shortly after the birth of his son, and of subsequent efforts to keep her from telling the story _ including a physical threat in Trump's name. They reiterate that Trump denies the accusations.
The president himself wasn't saying so, however. He remained uncharacteristically silent in the wake of both Daniels' much-watched interview and an earlier one on CNN of Karen McDougal, a former Playboy Playmate who described a long sexual relationship with Trump in the same year.
"I didn't say he punches back on every single topic," Sanders said during the daily White House briefing. "He also has a country to run."
As she spoke, Trump tweeted _ about a memorial to victims of the opioid epidemic to be erected on White House grounds in April.
According to his public schedule, Trump was 20 minutes into an Oval Office meeting with the Treasury secretary at the time.
