White House Defends Use Of Force Against Protesters: ‘No Other Choice’ | Talking Points Memo

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Wednesday defended the use of chemical agents and projectiles used by law enforcement officials to clear crowds of racial justice demonstrators in Lafayette Square on Monday — a move that was widely criticized as an excessive use of force on a peaceful protest.


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Kayleigh has certainly proved herself to be Trump’s propaganda whore. She is “all in.”

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Tide is shifting on ya, Donnie…

And not in a good way…

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“No other choice.” - J. Biden 2020

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“It’s like, look at me,” McEnany said.

"I get to stand up here and spew fascist Orwellian doublespeak from the White House press podium for a man who would have been fired from any other job in America years ago.

"You think any other president would do anything with my resume except set it on fire and throw the ashes into a dumpster? I’ll never have this opportunity again.

"So when I am asked to turn my back on my Harvard law degree and shill for Donald Trump as if I believe a single thing he has ever said …

“I have no other choice.”

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It’s almost like they don’t believe video recordings and live broadcasts of that afternoon exist.

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When do these people finally just break down and start asking her shit like 'You expect us to believe that nonsense?" and “Are you retarded?”??? Journalistic integrity be damned. The moment she said “Churchill moment” someone should have thrown a shoe at her.

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They are really pitiful. They think this is a prime time network TV show and that we are all stupid. She looks like someone sliced off a piece of KellyAnn and put a dress on her.

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Here’s one alternative: RESIGN.

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[“Among the crowds that day were families and children, rushing from the scene to make way for a moment that McEnany declared will be Trump’s very own “Churchill” moment — holding a Bible in front of a church at a time of national distress — much like a wartime president who assessed damage after World War II.”]

Spinning in one’s Grave is too little a metaphor.

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Didn’t watch, but did she mention “The Battle of Bunker Hole”?

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Oh, but he was just inspecting…

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Among the crowds that day were families and children, rushing from the scene to make way for a moment that McEnany declared will be Trump’s very own “Churchill” moment

What a colossal insult to Churchill! . . . . and for that matter, an insult to everyone who served in WWII.

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She even has that porn star look common to all Fox News’ female “talent”

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“No other choice.”

This is infuriating. To the extent that that statement is true, it’s true only because the combination of Trump’s insistence on a photo-op in front of St. John’s, his desire to project power, and his cowardice made the police’s actions inevitable. But to pretend that all of this was fated long before the cosmos was formed is insulting in the utmost.

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“Just asked Nancy Pelosi about the WH comparing the church stop to Bush after 9/11 and Churchill in WWII. “I think they’re hallucinating,” she said”

https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1268263717571043328?s=20

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That’s why she’s Speaker. Dismissive, in addition to scornful.

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Nancy is being way to kind.

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Churchill is spinning in his grave. What happened on Monday was not akin to WWII. It looked more like Tiananmen Square to me.

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I have never seen Ms. McEnany and Baghdad Bob in the same room, so have no other choice but to conclude they are the same person.

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