This could be fake news, but it sounds right to me based on what I heard yesterday coming from Sanders on the Stormy Daniels front:
From @Acosta: A source close to White House says Trump is upset with @PressSec Sarah Sanders over her handling of Stormy Daniels questions yesterday. “POTUS is very unhappy,” the source said. “Sarah gave the Stormy Daniels storyline steroids yesterday,” the source added.
— David Wright (@DavidWright_CNN) March 8, 2018
Business Insider reminds us of what Sanders said yesterday that might have upset Trump:
When asked during a press conference on Wednesday whether Trump approved a payment made to Daniels in October 2016 to keep her from talking about the alleged affair, Sanders deflected.
“Look, the President has addressed these [questions] directly and made very well clear that none of these allegations are true,” Sanders said. “This case has already been won in arbitration. And anything beyond that, I would refer you to the president’s outside counsel.”
Later in the press conference, when pressed on the details of the arbitration case, Sanders said it was won in the president’s favor by his personal attorneys. She referred reporters to the president’s outside counsel for more details.
It appears that Trump is upset with Sanders because, as CNN noted, her admission that Trump won an arbitration case is the first time the White House admitted that the president was involved with Daniels in any legal proceedings.
I think they are correct in their assessment. Not only do we know that Trump’s lawyer Cohen paid off Stormy Daniels (by his own admission), but now we know that Trump has actually been in legal arbitration with her. This does nothing but add credibility to the Trump/Stormy affair accusations.
If I were Trump and I had been lying about this affair, I’d be very upset too that Sanders revealed that information to the press.
So I put this report in the ‘very likely’ category.