Red Hen owners 'followed Sarah Sanders into the next restaurant to continue their harassment after they refused to serve her,' claims her father Mike Huckabee
- Mike Huckabee revealed his daughter Sarah Huckabee Sanders was harassed more than what was originally said by Virginia restaurant owners
- The former Arkansas governor made the remarks on The Laura Ingraham Show
- He said the owners heckled his daughter at the Red Hen before following her to the next restaurant
- The Christian minister added that several of his daughter's liberal in-laws were in attendance to the humiliating dinner outing
- The in-laws reportedly told the owners they were acting out and inappropriately
- Huckabee called the incident 'really tragic' and 'what the Left has been reduced to'
- Meanwhile, President Trump Monday trash-talked the 'dirty' Virginia restaurant
- The said harassment happened to the White House press secretary last Fridayts
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee revealed his daughter Sarah Huckabee Sanders was heckled even more than what was originally said by owners of a Virginia restaurant who asked her to leave because she works for the Trump administration.
The conservative politician made the remarks Monday on The Laura Ingraham Show.
Huckabee said, while speaking of the incident that took place initially at the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington on Friday: 'There's a part of that story that has not been told.'
He went on: 'Once Sarah and her family left - of course Sarah was asked to please vacate - Sarah and her husband just went home, they'd had enough. But, the rest of her family went across the street to a different restaurant.
'The owner of the Red Hen - nobody's told this - then followed them across the street, called people and organized a protest, yelling and screaming at them from outside the other restaurant and creating this scene.'
Sarah Huckabee Sanders (seen at the White House daily press briefing on June 25, 2018) was heckled even more by owners of a Virginia restaurant last Friday, her father, Mike Huckabee, revealed
Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her father appeared on ABC's 'The View' on September 6, 2017. The former Arkansas governor revealed more details on the incident from last Friday
Passersby examine the menu at the Red Hen Restaurant Saturday, June 23, 2018, in Lexington, Va. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Saturday in a tweet that she was booted from the Virginia restaurant because she works for President Trump
The Christian minister added that several of his daughter's liberal in-laws were in attendance to the humiliating dinner outing.
He said the relatives spoke out against the Red Hen owners' behavior - and said they acted out and inappropriately.
'One of them walked out and said: "Look, I don't like Trump. I'm not a supporter. I'm a far - considered liberal - but, you guys are embarrassing me and you're not helping your cause.'''
The conservative commentator called the incident 'really tragic' and 'what the Left has been reduced to' while discussing the matter on the Ingraham Show.
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump Monday trash-talked the Virginia restaurant.
In a tweet, Trump said that the Red Hen restaurant 'should focus more on cleaning its filthy canopies, doors and windows (badly needs a paint job) rather than refusing to serve a fine person like Sarah Huckabee Sanders.'
President Donald Trump (seen speaking at a rally for South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster in West Columbia, South Carolina on June 25, 2018) trash-talked the Virginia restaurant Monday
Trump said that the Red Hen restaurant 'should focus more on cleaning its filthy canopies, doors and windows (badly needs a paint job) rather than refusing to serve a fine person like Sarah Huckabee Sanders'
The White House press secretary posted this tweet Saturday morning, sharing details about the incident
Trump said: 'I always had a rule, if a restaurant is dirty on the outside, it is dirty on the inside!'
The president, an admitted germophobe, has said he prefers eating at fast food chains rather than independent eateries because he trusts them more.
Photographs of the restaurant, a three-hour drive from Washington, appear to show no evidence of serious disrepair to the red building with hunter green awnings and white doors and trim, though recent images show some awning wear.
The restaurant's most recent health inspection, reported by the local news site Patch and available online, includes no record of violations. Inspectors noted 'good food/unit temperatures,' said staff had clean uniforms and aprons, and observed 'excellent job on code-dating.'
Sanders tweeted over the weekend that she was asked to leave the restaurant by its owner Friday evening because she works for Trump.
Sanders said that she 'politely left' and that the owner's 'actions say far more about her than about me.'
Brandon Hintze, left, of Alexandria, Va., and Brian Tayback, of Shrewsbury, Pa., take a photo of the menu outside of the Red Hen Restaurant on June 23, 2018, in Lexington, where the incident happened
Passersby gather to take photos in front of the Red Hen Restaurant on June 23, 2018
This June 23, 2018 photo shows the Red Hen Restaurant in downtown Lexington where Huckabee Sanders said she was harassed by liberal owners
She told reporters at a White House briefing: 'Healthy debate on ideas and political philosophy is important... but the calls for harassment and push for any Trump supporter to avoid the public is unacceptable.'
The restaurant's co-owner, Stephanie Wilkinson, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press on Monday.
She, however, told The Washington Post that her reasons for booting Sanders included the concerns of employees who were gay and knew Sanders had defended Trump's desire to bar transgender people from serving in the military.
The restaurant's co-owner, Stephanie Wilkinson, (shown on Facebook) asked the press secretary to leave after a popular staff vote to do so
Several other Trump administration officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, have been confronted in public in recent days amid intense fury over an administration policy that led to an increase in the number of migrant children being separated from their parents after crossing the border illegally.
Nielsen cut short a working dinner at a Mexican restaurant last week after protesters shouted, 'Shame!' until she left.
Trump policy adviser Stephen Miller was accosted by someone at a different Mexican restaurant who called him 'a fascist,' according to the New York Post.
The displays of hostility have set off a fierce debate about whether politics should play a role in how administration officials are treated in public, with Sanders' father, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, denouncing his daughter's treatment as 'bigotry.'
Sarah Huckabee Sanders added: 'We are allowed to disagree, but we should be able to do so freely and without fear of harm. And this goes for all people regardless of politics.'
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