It looks like there is one question former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany
will never forget being asked from her time representing former President Donald Trump.
While speaking in front of conservative group Turning Point USA at their Young Women's Leadership
Summit on June 13, she recalled an inquiry she received during a May 2020 press conference
in which a journalist asked,
"Will you pledge never to lie to us from that podium?"
McEnany promptly replied,
"I will never lie to you. You have my word on that."
And although critics were quick to slam her remark at the time, it seems like she still
stands by her words. Reiterating her previous assertion for Sunday's conservative audience,
McEnany explained,
"And I said without hesitation, 'No.' And I never did."
She continued,
"As a woman of faith, as a mother of baby Blake, as a person who meticulously prepared
at some of the world's hardest institutions, I never lied. I sourced my information."
While speaking about her time behind the podium representing former President Donald Trump,
Kayleigh McEnany said she was unjustly classified as a "liar" by the news media despite her
qualifications for the role and her commitment to her faith. As she said to the crowd at
Turning Point USA's Young Women's Leadership Summit,
"But that will never stop the press from calling you a liar."
She continued to claim,
"Our motto was this: 'Offense only.' Because I knew what we were up against. Republicans
always get the bad headlines, always get the false stories, always get the lies — if
I can use that word — told by the press. There is one standard for Democrats and another
for Republicans. And we must be on offense. Confident, bold, and willing to call it out.
We cannot be silent."
But although McEnany professed her supposed respect for the truth, many people took to
Twitter to state otherwise. One person tweeted,
"#KayleighMcEnany never told a lie? She is consistent. When up is down and right is wrong
and real is fake. In this Wonderland she is truth personified."
Another person tweeted,
"Wow [...] she lies about lying by saying she could never lie because of her faith.
Unbelievable."
However, it looks like the former Press Secretary expected the criticism, and later tweeted,
"Haters will hate!" Her rebuttal prompted a slew of tweets reading, "And liars will
lie." One Twitter user let her have it, writing,
"Yep, Kayleigh McEnany never lied. And I'm a 6'2, size 4, natural blonde Rhodes Scholar
virgin, who never f---ing swears, invented pasta, won the Preakness (as a horse), wrote
the screenplay for The Graduate, and can beat The Rock in an arm wrestling competition,
with my LEFT arm."
Another Twitter user wasn't letting McEnany off the hook either, writing,
"As a Christian and a mother, I have never, ever jaywalked. God made me use the crosswalks.
Like Kayleigh McEnany, everything I just typed is a lie."
On the other side of things, at least one Twitter user thanked McEnany, writing,
"It's beyond evident that the media & leftist Twitter don't like someone who consistently
told the truth, called out the bias, and fought for transparency [...] Kayleigh will forever
be one of, if not the best, White House Press Secretaries."
"I know the person I am and what I stand for."
Fact-checkers also aren't buying Kayleigh McEnany's claims that she never lied. One
month before she became former President Trump's press secretary, she said, per The Washington
Post,
"We will not see diseases like the coronavirus come here."
Obviously, she was incorrect. However, in September 2020, McEnany appeared to backtrack
when she said in a White House briefing,
"[President Trump] never downplayed the virus."
She also suggested that Trump didn't downplay the risk COVID-19 presented to the U.S. The
same month, she also said that Trump's health care plan to replace the Affordable Care Act
would be released "in the next week or so." However, that plan wasn't ever released while
he was in office or since.
At her first press conference in her role as press secretary, McEnany also said of Robert
Mueller's report on the investigation into Trump's potential involvement with Russian
officials,
"[T]here was a whole lot of speculation about 'Russia, Russia, Russia' culminating in $40
million of taxpayer money being lost and the complete and total exoneration of President
Trump."
Her statement was not true. The report actually said, per The New York Times,
"While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does
not exonerate him."
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