Kayleigh McEnany came loaded for bear. She had to know that the media would want to review the debate and many of Trump’s statements coming out of the most significant night of the campaign.

The media had legitimate questions about how the White House has handled the criticism since the debate about Trump’s failure to condemn white supremacist groups. Kayleigh was ready, except she wasn’t exactly ready to unequivocally condemn white supremacist groups:

Kayleigh McEnany dances around a question from Fox News asking her to categorically condemn white supremacists. Very bizarre. pic.twitter.com/7xoyMHPTxa

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 1, 2020

She just could NOT say: “Trump condemns white supremacists!”

Kayleigh then spent a significant amount of time attacking CNN for a tweet by a CNN reporter (it was difficult to discern to whom she was referring), but her argument earned quite the clapback from Kaitlan Collins at CNN who tweeted this during the presser:

If the far-right group that espouses misogynistic, anti-Semitic and Islamophobic views celebrates what you said about them and prints it on t-shirts, you didn’t denounce them.

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) October 1, 2020

Reporters wanted to know how it is that Trump can continue to have rallies with so many people bunched together without masks – in other words, super spreaders – and because there is no good answer, Kayleigh went with her bad answer:

"The president believes that people have a first amendment right to political speech. He is having a rally. People can choose whether or not to come."– McEnany defends Trump's pandemic political rallies pic.twitter.com/HABHlTRQuY

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 1, 2020

As everyone is used to by now, Kayleigh then started her daily lecture and furious chastisement of the media. She aggressively chewed out the media for not paying near enough attention to Antifa. She then took it upon herself to read a litany of injuries to people at the hands of “Antifa.” Kayleigh says that since the journalists in the room won’t report on the facts, she would have to do it for them. She discussed the cases of three different people hurt by Antifa members, and as her anger built to a crescendo, she packed up her folder and huffed off the stage as she always does. The angry principal about to cancel the pep-assembly. She always treats reporters like children and she is their better.

At the close of the presser, as Fox News threw their coverage to reporter John Roberts, to his credit, he said that he cannot understand why it is that no one in the White House can bring themselves to simply say “We condemn white supremacy” (because they still have not). The answer is clear.

They don’t. They just want to get the question behind them.

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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