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Why owner of the Red Hen restaurant asked Donald Trump’s press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave … and would do it again

People flock to social media to take sides after Sarah Huckabee Sanders is asked to leave restaurant

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The Red Hen Restaurant in downtown Lexington, Virginia. Photo: AP

Stephanie Wilkinson was at home Friday evening - nearly 320km from the White House - when the choice presented itself.

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Her phone rang about 8pm. It was the chef at the Red Hen, the tiny farm-to-table restaurant that she co-owned just off Main Street in this small city in the western part of the state.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders had just walked in and sat down, the chef informed her.

“He said the staff is a little concerned. What should we do?” Wilkinson said.

“I said I’d be down to see if it’s true.”

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It seemed unlikely to her that US President Donald Trump’s press secretary should be dining at a 26-seat restaurant in rural Virginia.

But then, it was unlikely that her entire staff would have misidentified Sanders, who had arrived last to a table of eight booked under her husband’s name.

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