Pathological Liar Kayleigh McEnany Claims She Was Shocked, Simply Shocked, by Trump's Capitol Hill Insurrection as She Begins Her Fox Stint With Yet Another Lie
March 4, 2021
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By News Corpse
On Tuesday morning the newest member of the Fox News family made her debut on the conservative propaganda network. Former Donald Trump Press Secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, sat for an interview with Fox's Harris Faulkner. The segment was as jam-packed with the lies and worshipful adoration that was typical of her many prior appearances on Fox News and her infrequent, always hostile, White House press briefings.
McEnany's interview aired while FBI Director Christopher Wray was testifying before the Senate about the January 6th Capitol riots. CNN and MSNBC were airing the hearing. Fox News apparently considered McEnany's interview more newsworthy. Although the riots were a featured part of the interview:
“I think at the beginning of the day before everyone went to the rally, everyone was expecting peace. [...] And then as those events transpired, it was disbelief, shock, somber, sad, horrified by the violence. and it was a very hard, difficult day in the White House, there was no doubt. It was a, I should say, widespread feeling, synonymous feeling, completely. A feeling that everyone felt just completely condemning the actions of that day.”
If McEnany was "shocked" by the tragic events that resulted in five deaths and numerous injuries, she must have been in a self-induced coma. The FBI had issued warnings of anticipated hostilities prior to Trump's inflammatory cult rally. According to the Washington Post...
"A day before rioters stormed Congress, an FBI office in Virginia issued an explicit warning that extremists were preparing to travel to Washington to commit violence and 'war.'" [...]
"[T]he alarming Jan. 5 intelligence document was shared 'with all our law enforcement partners' through the joint terrorism task force, which includes the U.S. Capitol Police, the U.S. Park Police, D.C. police, and other federal and local agencies."
What's more, McEnany's assertion that there were "synonamous" [sic] feelings of disbelief and horror doesn't align with the reality as described at the time by former Trump aides who said that "Trump enjoyed watching the events unfold. He was 'loving watching the Capitol mob.'" Trump himself, in reluctant remarks made hours after the riots began, told the rioters that “We love you,” and that “You’re very special.” The interview continued with Faulkner asking McEnany whether she thought Trump bore any responsibility. Guess what she said:
"No, no I don't. [...] What those rioters did, you know the left says he's responsible, he's incited this - or even other Republicans - What I would say to them, well these rioters, if they were so inspired by what the President was saying - they left the speech early because reportedly they showed up at the Capitol before the end of his speech - and then they did the exact opposite of what he said. He said march peacefully and patriotically, and they did the opposite."
Of course, McEnany is highlighting a few incidental seconds in Trump's speech at the rally. She's leaving out months of Trump's incendiary rhetoric as well as his exhortation at the rally that "if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore."
McEneny went on to describe some people she met months earlier during the campaign who were nice to her, as if that excused the actions of the Trump Insurrectionists. She insisted that the violence was done by people who "do not represent our movement," despite Trump's loving embrace of them. She also lied about the focus in the White House being on maintaining peace, contrary to reports by House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy who, in a desperate and profanity-laced phone call, begged Trump for more security, but was told by Trump that the rioters cared more about the election results than McCarthy did.
For the record, McEnany is contradicting Trump, who now says that he requested 10,000 National Guard troops prior to the rally. That, of course, is also a lie. If he had done so, they would have been there. And let's not forget that McEnany is just as guilty of propagating the Big Lie about the election being "stolen" as Trump is. She also swore that the coronavirus would never come to the United States. Now she's following her Trump administration colleague, Larry Kudlow, into the Fox News bubble where they can lie with impunity and get paid big bucks for it. Never mind the harm it does politically, and even physically, as we learned on January 6th.
The one truthful statement that McEnany made in this interview was that Trump "changed the Republican Party forever." Curiously, she portrayed that in a positive light, despite his having presided over the loss of the House, the Senate, and the presidency, and being the lowest rated president in history. He even failed to impress the crowd at the Conservative Political Action Cult (CPAC), where he drew support for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination from only 55% of the attendees. And if that's the best he can do in a made-for-Trump crowd, he's looking at losing again in 2024, if he's dumb enough to run (which he is).
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