Kayleigh McEnany Cooks Up Most Outrageous Claim Yet To Explain Her Lies
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Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany insists she never lied when she worked for then-president Donald Trump and suggested she can’t because of her faith.
In comments made at a Sunday event that were posted online by Raw Story, she said:
“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 you a liar.”
McEnany took the job in April 2020 with her now-infamous vow to never lie. However, she had such a long and extensive history of falsehoods that CNN’s Jake Tapper refused to have her on his show, saying McEnany “lies the way that most people breathe” and “can’t acknowledge reality.”
Out of seven McEnany claims reviewed by PolitiFact, just three were rated as “mostly true.” The rest were listed as either “half true,” “mostly false,” “false” or “pants on fire.” Last year, for example, she claimed Trump “never downplayed the virus” despite audio of him admitting to doing exactly that, in those exact words.
“I wanted to always play it down,” Trump told Bob Woodward.
McEnany’s new claim that she had never lied caused her name to trend on Twitter, mostly due to disbelief:
Dear @kayleighmcenany
You're now even lying about God.
'I never lied': Kayleigh McEnany says God made her tell the truth in White House https://t.co/aZoBXt4qfs— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) June 13, 2021
About a year and 470,000 deaths ago, Kayleigh McEnany described the raging COVID pandemic as “embers” that they expected to happen https://t.co/VsFTm47Rlo
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) June 14, 2021
That's a Lie.
Fact: @kayleighmcenany rarely told us the truth. https://t.co/pfA55ueZ1X— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) June 14, 2021
Kayleigh McEnany: “I never lied.”
Also Kayleigh: pic.twitter.com/sMSyOJePAr— MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) June 14, 2021
If lies were vaccine shots, Kayleigh McEnany could vaccinate the rest of the United States and have enough left over for Canada & Mexico.
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) June 13, 2021
Fact-check: Kayleigh McEnany lied every time she took the podium. https://t.co/QYkGNRGRyp
— Ahmed Baba (@AhmedBaba_) June 13, 2021
Kayleigh McEnany saying she never lied is like me tweeting that I never tweeted.
— Steve Hofstetter (@SteveHofstetter) June 13, 2021
It's hilarious that @kayleighmcenany claims to never lie because of her "faith," because every other word out of her mouth is a lie, as if she has some weird syndrome. I feel sorry for her daughter, who will have to grow up knowing her mother was a liar. https://t.co/JzW1fB86v4
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) June 14, 2021
When you lie about lying because you are lying for a liar. https://t.co/pUbthoLlkW
— Barbara Malmet (@B52Malmet) June 14, 2021
"I never lied" - Kayleigh McEnany, lady with fingers crossed behind her back.
— Mr. Newberger (@jeremynewberger) June 13, 2021
This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.