{"id":46831,"date":"2020-09-22T14:04:01","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T21:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46831"},"modified":"2020-09-22T14:25:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T21:25:49","slug":"kayleigh-mcenanys-lame-attempt-to-whitewash-trumps-blame-for-200000-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46831","title":{"rendered":"Kayleigh McEnany’s Lame Attempt to Whitewash Trump’s Blame for 200,000 Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week the United States achieved another milestone under the “leadership”<\/em> of Donald Trump. More than 200,000 Americans have died as a result of his negligence, incompetence, and deliberate malfeasance in responding to the coronavirus pandemic. Add to that the 6.7 million people who contracted the disease, many of whom will suffer permanent, debilitating disabilities.<\/p>\n

\"Kayleigh<\/p>\n

This is unarguably a record of abject failure that translates into tragedy for millions of people. Yet somehow Trump gives himself a A+ for ranking near the bottom worldwide for managing this crisis. The only area that he concedes falling short is in public relations, for which he gives himself a D.<\/p>\n

Trump deserves some credit for recognizing how terrible his White House communications operations are. For the most part they have ignored the traditional duties of conveying important information to the American people, choosing instead to conduct itself as an arm of Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign<\/a><\/strong>. And he has repeatedly been at odds with the medical experts on his Coronavirus Task Force. No wonder the cases and fatalities stack up even as other countries are returning to relative normality.<\/p>\n

At the helm of Trump’s communications team is his press Secretary, Kayleigh McEnany. She’s an accomplished liar who is ably filling the shoes of her weasley predecessors Sean Spicer, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and “alternative facts”<\/em> spinner, Kellyanne Conway. As evidence of McEnany’s prowess for falsehoods, observe this response to a question from CNN’s Jim Acosta:<\/p>\n

Acosta:<\/strong> The country has had over 200,000 deaths from coronavirus. What do you say to Americans who are outraged over this and blame this administration for so many lives lost in this country?
\nMcEnany:<\/strong> Well, as you’ve heard several doctors on the task force note from this podium, we were looking at the prospect of two million people perishing from the coronavirus in this country. We grieve when even one life is lost, but the fact that we have come nowhere near that number is a testament to this president taking immediate action. After shutting down travel from China, when the other party, Democrats were saying that was xenophobic; for shutting down travel for Europe; for developing landmark therapeutics that are working, like Remdesivir.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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.@acosta<\/a>: What do you say to Americans who blame this administration for 200,000 Covid deaths?<\/p>\n

McENANY: The fact that we have come nowhere near 2 million deaths is a testament to this president taking immediate action pic.twitter.com\/Y5rHBLanG6<\/a><\/p>\n

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 22, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n