Did you hear that? It was the sound of everyone’s eyeballs rolling so far back that they fell out of their heads after Kayleigh McEnany‘s latest claims about being an honest and honorable woman.
Speaking at an event held by the conservative group Turning Point USA, McEnany spoke about her time as the fourth and final press secretary in the Trump White House White House, during which she would constantly get into mean verbal spats with reporters that often turned personal.
“And then there was the question, ‘Will you ever lie to us?’ And I said without hesitation, ‘No’, and I never did,” the Harvard Law grad told the crowd.
“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, but that will never stop the press from calling me a liar.”
This, of course, is a lie.
McEnany lied constantly during her time as White House press secretary.
Like the time she claimed Robert Mueller’s report about Trump’s ties to Russian ended with “the complete and total exoneration of President Trump” even though it didn’t.
Or the time she promised Trump would unveil his new health care proposal in “about two weeks” and then never did.
Or that other time she said Trump “never downplayed the virus” despite audio recording of him telling journalist Bob Woodward, “I wanted to always play it down, I still like playing it down.”
Or that other other time when she accused Democrats of “welcoming fraud” and “welcoming illegal voting” after the 2020 election without offering a single shred of evidence
Speaking at the Turning Point USA event, McEnany went on to say that she developed an “offense only” strategy when dealing with reporters because “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.”
“We must be on offense,” she told the crowd.
Or they could just, ya know, tell the truth.
Here’s what folx are saying about her “I never lied!” remarks on Twitter…
Kayleigh McEnany just said she never lied, which is another lie.
— Pebs 2.0 ?????? (@RubyWaves_) June 14, 2021
Kayleigh McEnany:I swear on my Christian faith I never lied.
Jesus: pic.twitter.com/LLSx2VLa5L
— Luvn_it8/6??…Openly Black (@Luvn_it86) June 14, 2021
Kayleigh McEnany has realized that lying to the entire country looks terrible on the resume.
— Mr. Newberger (@jeremynewberger) June 14, 2021
Kayleigh McEnany: “I never lied…. I lieghd.”
— Josh Simon ? (@JoshuaSimonSays) June 14, 2021
Kayleigh McEnany lied today when she said she's never lied. pic.twitter.com/hwP3bkr7Lu
— Pin Young ???????? (@PinYoungActress) June 14, 2021
Do you remember Kayleigh McEnany’s first press conference when she said, “I will never lie to you?” She lied to you.
— Political Poet (@mdnij34) June 14, 2021
Kayleigh McEnany: I never lied.
Pinocchio: Me neither, it's just morning wood.— Mr. Newberger (@jeremynewberger) June 14, 2021
Kayleigh McEnany lied??? Hold on, my cat is barking. pic.twitter.com/thzPlqDPX7
— Lory Farmer (@lory_farmer) June 14, 2021
It was very cool of Dairy Queen to give Kayleigh McEnany the day off, so she could spend it lying to Newsweek about not lying to us
— connectpoliticditto. (@cpoliticditto) June 14, 2021
Propagandist Kayleigh McEnany McEnazi lied again today that she never lied whilst lying to cover up the lies she told to distract from other lies told after lying about more lies that were lied about. She’s literally one of the most prolific liars in all US history.
— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) June 14, 2021
According to Politifact, almost everything McEnany said as press secretary was not true. The fact checking site evaluated her statements as “Mostly False,” “False,” or “Pants on Fire” 56 percent of the time. She earned “Half True” 14 percent of the time and “Mostly True” 28 percent of the time. And she earned “True” zero percent of the time.
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
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ggontarek
So “christian” of her. LOL!
BoomerMyles
So Politifact said 7 out of 10 statements were lies.
Mac-a-Ninny is nothing but a moist airhole.
cuteguy
First Ted Cruz. Now this mess. Harvard is looking more and more like a second rate school. Smh poor Karen
Jim
Harvard (or any “prestigious” school) is so for their cachet and reputation. Not their ability to educate their students.
BaltoSteve
@Jim, However, part of their reputation is tied to the people who have passed through their halls and snagged that sheepskin. After all, what does it say about the school’s standards by having, not only, admitted but graduated such? If you are seen as a school with ecru non-recyclables as graduates, you will at some point be viewed as a school of non-recyclables.
Matthewnow
She gives white trash a bad name.
Tombear
Ya know, Evangelical Christians are like that.
Kangol2
Like Kid Rock and quite a few others, she is from a wealthy White family. Her daddy owned a commercial roofing company. She attended elite Catholic private schools, Georgetown University, Oxford University (in the UK), the University of Miami, and Harvard Law School. She is many things, but this presumption that she is an uneducated, working class White woman is off. She’s quite privileged. Clearly she learned zilch in all of her schooling, and lies as readily as most people breathe, just like her former boss, Don the Con, a racist, pathological, treasonous psycho!
wikidBSTN
What is up with HARVARD? That loon went to Harvard? Tom Cotton and Ted Cruz too? The Director of Admissions at Harvard needs to be sacked!
Leash
“What, like it’s hard?” I guess she’s a big Legally Blonde fan and made her daddy buy her a degree.
okiloki
Alan Dershowitz, who defended/hung around with OJ, Epstein, Trump and who is himself accused of pedophilia and child sex trafficking also was a Harvard law professor. Harvard used to be considered the best of the best but not anymore. Their brand of teaching seems to be toxic.
Kangol2
Actually Harvard is a compilation of schools, each with separate admissions criteria. Cotton was a Harvard undergrad, and graduated with highest honors. Clearly smart, but nevertheless a right-wing religious and political fanatic. (Harvard clearly does admit and graduate extremely right-wing students.) Ted Cruz went to Princeton and then Harvard Law School, like McEnany. They are not stupid people. They express astoundingly stupid beliefs at times, but Cruz was an honors graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law, so he does have a brain, whether he chooses to use it or not. But politics will make people say and do very inane, sometimes dangerous things.
Leash
Guys, she cannot possibly lie, she is a christian and a mother!! :O
Mehki
You know someone is lying when they feel the need to drag in their status as a parent, their kids, their religion, and poor Jesus Christ, who if he ever, existed would claim none of these wretched, lying hypocrites.
If only the people who claim to be Christians actually were.
Of course she lied and then lied about lying.
Mister P
It’s easy to know she is lying. Her lips move.
Mack
I think that applies to all Republicans.