Sarah Sanders is now refusing to answer questions about why she lied about Stormy Daniels payout

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders over the past several months has made multiple false statements about President Donald Trump's knowledge of whether attorney Michael Cohen paid off adult film star Stormy Daniels.

In the wake of Rudy Giuliani's bombshell admission that Trump personally reimbursed Cohen for the $131,000 payout to Daniels, reporters on Thursday asked Sanders why she hadn't told the truth about the deal.

Sanders, however, flatly refused to answer any questions.

"In a gaggle of reporters at the WH just now, Sarah Sanders refused to answer multiple questions about why she and the president made statements about the Daniels case that we now know to be untrue," reports CNN's Abby Phillip. "Sanders insisted she couldn't comment because of ongoing litigation."

Phillip then quoted Sanders during a press briefing in March in which she said that Trump had absolutely no knowledge of Cohen's payments to Daniels.

"I've had conversations with the president about this," Sanders said at the time. "There was no knowledge of any payments from the president and he's denied all of these allegations."