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kpete

(72,037 posts)
Thu Dec 29, 2022, 11:01 PM Dec 2022

Kayleigh, a "liar and opportunist" - shocker.

Former Top Trump Aide: Republicans Thought Lying About 2020 Would Help Careers

Griffin named several top Republican professionals as deliberately promoting falsehoods, particularly Kayleigh McEnany, who was serving as the White House Press Secretary at the time but subsequently landed a job as a co-host of “Outnumbered,” a daily political discussion show on Fox.

“Kayleigh is a liar and an opportunist,” Griffin told the committee. “She’s a smart woman. She’s a Harvard law grad. This is not an idiot. She knew we lost the election, but she made a calculation that she wanted to have a certain life post-Trump that required staying in his good graces. And that was more important to her than telling the truth to the American public.”

According to Griffin, McEnany decided that even though she knew Trump had lost, supporting his deception campaign to illegally remain in office would be good for her career:

“I think she saw that as a moment to kind of, like, if I do this one last public-facing stand for Trump, I’m going to be set. This is going to work out for me. And, I mean, it did. She got her FOX News gig. She — it worked out precisely how she’d always planned for it to, but she knew better.”


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Kayleigh, a "liar and opportunist" - shocker. (Original Post) kpete Dec 2022 OP
May her career burn like a meth lab. The Unmitigated Gall Dec 2022 #1
Griffin's cashin', huh? czarjak Dec 2022 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Dec 2022 #3
I truly hope... 2naSalit Dec 2022 #4
it will forever boggle my mind Skittles Dec 2022 #5
They thought they were hitching their wagons to a star Demobrat Dec 2022 #8
but he's such a fucking VILE POS Skittles Dec 2022 #9
What do they care? Demobrat Dec 2022 #10
Yeah.. lots of people are Cha Dec 2022 #6
She got accepted into Harvard after she appeared on CNN JI7 Dec 2022 #7
Who knew? GoodRaisin Dec 2022 #11
Which is worse? Martin Eden Dec 2022 #12
The latter. Without the latter, we wouldn't have the former. Pobeka Dec 2022 #14
Excellent point! Martin Eden Dec 2022 #15
Yep. She's a shameless Machiavellian christofascist pathological liar and grifter. Roisin Ni Fiachra Dec 2022 #13
What I remember is that McEnany was mostly silent after the election FakeNoose Dec 2022 #16
She never told the truth to the American people iemanja Dec 2022 #17

Response to kpete (Original post)

Skittles

(153,258 posts)
5. it will forever boggle my mind
Fri Dec 30, 2022, 12:07 AM
Dec 2022

how many people were willing to trash their reputations for that orange buffoon

Demobrat

(9,019 posts)
8. They thought they were hitching their wagons to a star
Fri Dec 30, 2022, 02:08 AM
Dec 2022

and the payoff for doing his bidding would be wealth and power for life. And if he had managed to stay in power they would have been right.

But he wasn’t a star. They hitched their wagons to a fat old mule that farted in their faces right before it dropped dead in the road.

Cha

(297,911 posts)
6. Yeah.. lots of people are
Fri Dec 30, 2022, 01:54 AM
Dec 2022

smart in some areas like Dr Ben Carson and Dumb as Shit in others.. opportunists and Sociopaths that completely WIPE OUT anything else they've accomplished.

And, that Alan Dershowitz . among many more.

JI7

(89,282 posts)
7. She got accepted into Harvard after she appeared on CNN
Fri Dec 30, 2022, 02:06 AM
Dec 2022

And she did something similar before when she was actually critical of Trump but then started supporting him. I believe that was a career move also. And even then it worked out for her as she got into Harvard after appearing on CNN supporting Trump and she got the White House Job .

Martin Eden

(12,881 posts)
12. Which is worse?
Fri Dec 30, 2022, 08:49 AM
Dec 2022

There are thousands of Republican operatives, media mothpieces, and officeholders who spout the Trumpian lies, and they basically fall in two categories:

Those who are stupid or crazy enough to believe the lies.

Those who know they're telling lies but do so to advance their careers.

Which is worse?

Martin Eden

(12,881 posts)
15. Excellent point!
Fri Dec 30, 2022, 12:31 PM
Dec 2022

Morally, knowing lars are far worse than those they deceive.

Zealots who believe the lies can be more dangerous, but there would be far fewer crazies if not for the liars.

Roisin Ni Fiachra

(2,574 posts)
13. Yep. She's a shameless Machiavellian christofascist pathological liar and grifter.
Fri Dec 30, 2022, 09:23 AM
Dec 2022

A creep, and a phony, to the very core of her being.

The poster child for modern christofascism.

Ugh

FakeNoose

(32,849 posts)
16. What I remember is that McEnany was mostly silent after the election
Fri Dec 30, 2022, 12:49 PM
Dec 2022

I'm not even sure if she showed up for work at the White House after the November election. A lot of them didn't - they were looking for other jobs. If she was there, she didn't have much to do. The press stopped paying attention to her. The story quickly became Rudy Giuliani, and the other crazy lawyers of "Stop the Steal" fame. Chump wouldn't stop tweeting about rigged elections or having his secret conspiracy meetings. I'm sure Kayleigh was excluded from all of that.

After the election, the White House's everyday business ceased to function. I remember reading news stories that a lot of White House staffers were out sick with Covid, which may have been true. But the employees who wanted no part of the coup needed a good reason for not coming to work, and Covid became a convenient excuse.

Maybe McEnany made a few half-hearted attempts at running lame press conferences, but how many paid attention?

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