White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany held her first press briefing behind the podium on Friday, and it became an instant train wreck of lies as soon as she answered the first question.
Her predecessor, Stephanie Grisham, failed to hold a single press briefing during her tenure, preferring to lie to the American people on Fox News and Twitter.
McEnany, however, chose to lie to Americans at the podium in the press room, and did so blatantly.
For instance, a reporter asked her if she would ever lie to the press and she claimed she wouldn’t.
Here’s the video via Twitter:
“I will never lie to you. You have my word on that.” — Kayleigh McEnany during her first press briefing as press secretary (bookmark this) pic.twitter.com/PqUhRAWiun
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 1, 2020
And clearly, that was a lie because she uttered several lies throughout the rest of the briefing.
“The salacious, awful, and verifiably false allegations that were made against Justice Kavanaugh” — McEnany just lied, breaking the promise she made not to just minutes ago. The allegations against Kavanaugh were not verifiably false.
It was a good run. pic.twitter.com/XQp1yer9vt
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 1, 2020
MeEnany just lied again. She misquoted the FBI notes that Trump is hyping (misleadingly) as bombshell evidence exonerating Michael Flynn. Compare what she said with what the note actually says: https://t.co/fwS2XHsXjy pic.twitter.com/iuOPZuhLl9
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 1, 2020
McEnany’s rationale for why Trump’s denials of sexual assault are more convincing than Biden’s is that “the president has swiftly denied all of these allegations that were raised four years ago. He’s always told the truth on these issues.” pic.twitter.com/dKKcmmEDpE
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 1, 2020
McEnany lies again to close the briefing about what the Michael Flynn FBI notes say. They don’t not indicate that agents tried to get him to lie during an interview. pic.twitter.com/5HEdeeNbxn
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 1, 2020
Of course, the Internet slammed her for lying.
She promised never to lie. Then Kayleigh McEnany misquoted the FBI notes on Flynn, misstated what Trump said in a tweet, and exaggerated the cost and outcome of the Mueller investigation.
Fact check on the new press secretary’s first briefing: https://t.co/qtXkd7FZRM
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 1, 2020
McEnany claimed the Russia probe ended with “$40 million of taxpayer money being lost in a complete and total exoneration of President Trump.”
The final total was $32M, per official figures; govt. expected to recoup about $17M; Mueller report explicitly said it didn’t exonerate.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 1, 2020
The first official #PressBriefing by a Press Secretary since Sarah Slanders is being given by Kayleigh McEnany.
Unfortunately, it is just as full of lies and propaganda as TEN Sarah Suckabees. For instance, she just said “I will never lie to you.”
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) May 1, 2020
Re-upping this after Kayleigh McEnany’s comments. https://t.co/hEY5JOoJ2Z
— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) May 1, 2020
Kayleigh McEnany’s first lie as White House Press Secretary to the press was her promise to never lie to the press. #kayleighmcenany
— Clay Jones (@claytoonz) May 1, 2020
Is that a WH press secretary record? Lasting 15 minutes?
“15 minutes after pledging not to lie, Trump’s new press secretary made an obviously false claim”
At some point it’s an insult to her not to call it a LIE. McEnany knows here what she’s doing.https://t.co/Ah1QdhEkus
— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) May 1, 2020
This first performance makes it clear that McEnany is going to be just another liar, and she can’t do it very well at all. The American people are paying attention and they don’t like being lied to, but Trump wanted a press secretary who would lie for him and he found one.
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