The White House is trying to deflect blame for the decision by the Interior Department to allow Americans to import the elephants they shot to death in Zimbabwe and Zambia.
The decision has been roundly condemned from animal rights groups to the Reopublican chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tried to suggest the decision is actually the responsibility of the Obama administration.
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