Kayleigh McEnany, Trump's new press secretary, has suggested Americans should turn to Trump for coronavirus guidance rather than public health officials. She has also made false claims about voter fraud and promoted racist fictions about President Obama.
required to take insupportable claims from almost the moment he stepped into the White House position
, insisting that Trump's inauguration had attracted record crowds, when the evidence clearly showed otherwise. "What President Trump and his staff have never fully embraced is that when you take the podium at the White House, you're speaking on behalf of the entire nation, not just one person," former Obama White House spokesman Bill Burton told NPR."To speak on behalf of this president, one is required to have fierce loyalty to him and no fidelity to the truth. Given [McEnany's] work for him so far, I think she'll fit right in.
McEnany worked on Capitol Hill for congressional Republicans and interned in the communications office of President George W. Bush. She foreshadowed her allegiance to Trump withObama was born in Kenya and defended Trump calling Obama the founder of the radical Islamic terrorist group ISIS . Such comments are unlikely to be counted against her by administration officials. Trump's new chief of staff, former U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows, made similar claims about Obama's origins on the campaign trail though Meadows more recently said
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