Kayleigh McEnany Says Her Faith Stopped Her From Lying While Working For Trump

Former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said recently that she "never lied" during her time in the Trump administration because her belief in God prevented her from doing that. Her lies during her short time in office are well documented, but claims like this help fuel the Republican base into thinking their leaders are infallible. Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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This past weekend, while speaking at a turning point, USA, a young women's leadership summit, former white house press secretary turned Fox news personality. Kayleigh McEnany told a story about how she never lied during her time as Donald Trump's press secretary. Uh, she recalled that someone had asked her, you know, are you going to lie if you take this job? And here's what she said. She said, and I said, without hesitation, no. And I never did as a woman of faith as a mother of baby Blake, as a person who meticulous meticulously prepared at some of the world's hardest institutes emotions, I never lied. I sourced my information.

So because you're a woman of faith and B, because you're baby Blake, um, you never lied really. Now, listen, we could spend a ton of time here going over all the lies that Kayleigh McEnany told those are well-documented, um, you know, uh, you can find plenty of websites that actually have lists of all the things she lied about. And then they fact check and tell the truth here. Some of the ones obviously include lying about COVID lying about the economy, um, lying about everything that Donald Trump was lying about. You know, saying that everything was fine. The COVID is no big deal. Yada, yada, yada, the economy's bouncing back. It's roaring all this crap and many, many, many there things, but here's the thing. It's not just the fact that she lied and she lied about lying. Okay, we get that. What it is is her excuse.

She is trying to use her faith and the fact that she gave birth as some kind of a shield from any and all criticism. So from this point forward, anyone who goes forward and says, Kaylee McEnany lied. It's oh, you're attacking a woman of faith. You're attacking her because she's a mother. That's what she's doing here. And it annoys me that those idiots and that little turning point USA crowd were too stupid to understand what was actually happening here. Lying is essentially what the press secretary does. Their, their job is to propagandize, whatever the administration they work for is doing. We've seen it happening today, not in the, you know, today

Sense of today, but with the Saki,

She's not perfect. I know a lot of liberals are putting her up on a pedestal for some reason, but, but they lie because they have to lie. I mean, that really is part of the job. So to pretend otherwise is to once again, lie to the American public, or if you're pretending, otherwise you're lying to your self Kaley. McEnany can not use her faith as a shield and all too often, that is what Republicans do. They try to drape their worst characteristics in the Bible. And that's the point of this story? It's not that, oh, she lied about lying. It's that she did the typical Republican tactic of saying I can't lie because I believe in God, like Marjorie Taylor green last week saying I can't believe in evolution because I believe in God, that is one of the lowest forms of pandering that the Republicans have to offer because people like McEnany claimed to be guided by their faith guided by my empathy as a, as a mother.

Oh, I can't believe in evolution says Marjorie Taylor green. Cause I believe in God, y'all, aren't doing a single thing that God would actually approve of y'all aren't out there helping the poor y'all aren't out there curing the sick or giving them treatment. You're not out there clothing, the naked and feeding the hungry you're out there doing whatever you can to further your own career. And by the way, you're doing it in a blasphemous way by trying to shroud yourself in that Bible, which yeah. Is a sin, but y'all don't care because as long as you can hoodwink the base, as long as you can convince these low information voters, that you're a person of faith, you can get away with anything. And the Republican party has been doing that for decades.