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Harvard, and Georgetown and is a ChristianFormer White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany writes in her new memoir that she didn't lie to reporters and the public while serving in the Trump administration because she was trained at elite universities and is a Christian.
McEnany recalls being asked by the White House press corps during her first briefing as Donald Trump's fourth press secretary in May 2020 to pledge to never lie from the podium. She promised she would not and writes in, "For Such a Time As This," that she's a truthful person by nature and training.
"Of course, I would never lie," she writes. "How do you get through Oxford, Harvard, and Georgetown without sourcing? Without truthful, well-sourced, well-researched information? More importantly, as a woman of faith, a Christian, and a new mother, telling the truth was in my nature and central to my family life and faith walk."
Throughout her book, McEnany is highly critical of the press, aside from conservative outlets, and repeatedly accuses outlets of having a liberal bias and reporting unfairly about the administration. She writes that her assurance that she wouldn't lie "did not stop some in the press from spinning things wildly out of context, twisting my words, assuming the worst, and engaging in ad hominem attackslike falsely calling me a 'liar.'"
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kayleigh-mcenany-says-she-didn-t-lie-in-the-white-house-briefing-room-because-she-went-to-oxford-harvard-and-georgetown-and-is-a-christian/ar-AARp7tN
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)lies about her previous nuclear grade lying.
TFG and most of his captains had a decent education and were ever so Christian as well, so I rest my case.
cilla4progress
(24,853 posts)drop, Al!
Shermann
(7,519 posts)elleng
(131,641 posts)A Christian WHAT???
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)underpants
(183,178 posts)Clearly appearance is more important than substance to her and its a big part of why she got the job. She a natural for Fox News.
At the end she just HAD to mention that she had a 5 month old child. The way she said it was look at how perfect/better than you I am way.
I am sure Trump hated having Sarah the Uncredible Huck Huckabee being the face of his operation.
PA_jen
(1,114 posts)IcyPeas
(21,966 posts)Link to tweet
have never understood republicans reasoning by calling democrats elites because they went to Ivy League schools, when they went to the very same schools. As always, republican hypocrites the whole lot of them.
keithbvadu2
(37,145 posts)ShazzieB
(16,730 posts)Does Yale Law count?
keithbvadu2
(37,145 posts)House of Roberts
(5,208 posts)she was perfect for Trump, as he keeps lying to himself to make himself feel better, and so does she.
Sorry child, we have you recorded on video, every day you held a press conference.
Baitball Blogger
(46,828 posts)The world has changed. No one has the right to use sweeping generalities to hide behind anymore.
patphil
(6,276 posts)Well then, what were the reasons she lied? Because, we know she's a liar.
The Wizard
(12,566 posts)Thought disorders and loose associations are covered by Obamacare.
maveric
(16,451 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,138 posts)https://www.politifact.com/personalities/kayleigh-mcenany/
True 0%
Mostly True 25%
Half True 12%
Mostly False 25%
False 25%
Pants on Fire 12%
Kayleigh McEnany
stated on September 9, 2020 in a White House press briefing:
Says President Donald Trump never downplayed the virus.
ShazzieB
(16,730 posts)She's as bad as her Orange Overlord, denying lies that were recorded on video and have been seen and heard countless times since.
marble falls
(57,887 posts)2naSalit
(87,121 posts)And what?
Used the restroom?
DanieRains
(4,619 posts)I don't help wannabee dictators murder 500,000 Americans by lying with a straight face, and saying since I am a Christian I am not lying.
You are a liar, and your will be burning in hell. Forever. Sooner than later.....
Won't see ya in heaven my girl....
brush
(54,031 posts)The King of Prussia
(737 posts)Has produced a vast number of liars. Top of the list Johnson.
usaf-vet
(6,265 posts)He also went to Oxford and said 'I don't know whether to call you professor or comrade': Kennedy accuses Biden nominee of being communist
ShazzieB
(16,730 posts)Yet another nauseatingly loathsome and vile piece of trash.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)which would make her a sociopath.
I could go either way.
ShazzieB
(16,730 posts)Only a sociopath can lie with that mixture of supreme confidence and utter lack of guilt or remorse.
She might as well be wearing a sign.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)educated her in common sense. Anyone with common sense, no matter where they sat in a classroom, would have worked for Trump. You sold yourself out.
iluvtennis
(19,936 posts)Shes a con artist just like tfg
RANDYWILDMAN
(2,681 posts)it must be the libs who do all they lying then, if you say so
How does she even look at herself in the mirror when her arm is broken from patting herself on the back
If you see her memoir at any of your friend's houses, run like hell.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,510 posts)and George Osborne in the UK. The best liars, the very best!
KY......
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Kept her from working for the biggest liar to ever walk a step in the White House? She was one of the last ones to leave.
So, they dont teach dignity at Oxford?
Talitha
(6,675 posts)She knows what she is.
Johonny
(21,035 posts)she is a great example of the selfish GOP elite. People that give not a damn about anyone and will step on anyone's grave to make a buck.
We all know she's lying but she doesn't care because the suckers she's bleeding dry mean nothing to her.
Solly Mack
(90,820 posts)And lying for Trump must be part of her religion.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)He also went to Oxford and even graduated the 4th grade!
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