Kayleigh McEnany Embarrasses Herself During Public Thursday Debacle

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The White House is continuing to face pressure over President Donald Trump’s dodgy answers on white supremacy, which should not be difficult and arduous to get a condemnation for from the president of the United States and his top allies. On Thursday at a White House press conference, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany sparred with Fox News reporter John Roberts over the issue after Roberts asked McEnany for an unequivocal and straightforward on-the-record condemnation of white supremacy. In her rush to try and discredit the media, she still struggled to provide unequivocal clarity.

At the chaotic presidential debate earlier this week, moderator Chris Wallace asked Trump if he would condemn white supremacists, and he said “sure” — but then he never actually did. The next day, a reporter outside the White House asked Trump the same question, and his initial response was that he supports “law and order” — which, of course, has absolutely nothing to do with white supremacist groups.  He did eventually claim that he has consistently condemned white supremacists — but that’s not true. Sometimes, like at the debate, he’s stumbled big time on the issue.

On Thursday, after Roberts’s initial request for an unequivocal condemnation of white supremacy from McEnany, she said:

‘This has been answered, yesterday by the president himself, the day before by the president himself on the debate stage, the president was asked this, he said “sure” three times. Yesterday, he was point-blank asked, do you denounce white supremacy, and he said I’ve always denounced any form of that. I can read for you, in August 2019, “In one voice our nation must condemn racism, bigotry, white supremacy.” In August 2017: “Racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals…” I have an entire list of these quotes I can go through with you. He has condemned white supremacy more than any president in modern history.’

Why couldn’t she have just provided an unequivocal and on-the-record condemnation of white supremacy right then and there without resorting to her familiar attacks on the media? Is there no issue of national importance that the Trump administration is unwilling to subsume into their endless chaos campaigns?

Roberts noted that McEnany reading off old statements is not the same thing as a new, concrete establishment of the White House’s position on the issue. She ranted in reply:

‘[Trump’s] record on this is unmistakable, and it’s shameful the media refuses to cover it.’

Check out the debacle below: