White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Wednesday vehemently defended President Trump just hours after reports on journalist Bob Woodward’s forthcoming book “Rage” recounted Trump admission that he downplayed the risk of COVID-19 publicly.
There is a VAST difference in expressing calm and in dismissing the threat as not really all that big a deal.
“This virus has the potential to be very dangerous, but we are marshaling our resources and I have great confidence in their ability to mitigate the damage.” Expresses calm.
“Really, this is no worse than a seasonal flu and will very likely just disappear in the not too distant future.” This is downplaying the threat and flat out lying about the likely outcome.
Time for her to go. She can’t just make up s**t on the fly, no matter how practiced she is because of her position. No credibility. Call her on it and say, “next”.
She is likely paid by the lie. She is having a good financial season and is getting ready for her corporate work in the think-tank/not-for-profit sector, perhaps the neo-NRA group that rises from the ashes of the NRA.
There’s also a difference between expressing calm while you are quietly marshaling all the forces of the Federal government to address the threat, and expressing calm while you’re doing sod all about it, with no plans whatsoever.
It would be different if he had worked on keeping people calm and also worked on protecting them. He just lied. That’s all. It’s even worse when you realize that all he had to do was give an order (“Make sure we’re prepared for this”) and get out of the way. Instead, he actively impeded the process of protecting Americans.
And, BTW, Kayleigh, Fox is playing/played the tapes:
I never had those collegiate days, sadly. Entered the Service at 17 and never looked back. Eventually did the evening-class bit while working to get a degree.
Since my scene ended up being the bars and discotheques of Europe, somehow I’ve never missed not knowing the frat scene.