Headline Roundup • June 24th, 2018
Restaurant Refuses to Serve Sarah Sanders
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, was asked to leave the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia on Friday night. The owner of the restaurant has reportedly said that Sanders was refused due to "moral conviction." In a tweet, Sanders addressed the incident by saying the owner's actions "say far more about her than about me." Since knowledge of the incident has become widespread, people on both the Right and Left have responded by rating the restaurant on Yelp and Facebook.
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