Posted on 07/17/2020 2:03:23 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
A Reuters photograph of White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnanys vast briefing binder offered a peek behind the curtain of the Trump administrations messaging priorities.
Taken from the side of the White House briefing room podium, the photograph catches McEnany opening the book, exposing dozens of alphabetized tabs with short category names. During her tenure, McEnany has developed a reputation for flipping open her briefing book after a particularly confrontational question and reading verbatim from pre-written responses, which often included canned attacks on the press or praise from allies.
In the photo taken at Thursdays White House briefing, McEnanys tabs include a number evergreen topics, but several recent ones as well. Covid and Test as well as PPE, Masks, CDC, and Cases suggest a healthy amount of prepared remarks on the raging pandemic. But also included in the binder were more ephemeral topics, like Goya about the controversy over the Trump-led counter-backlash to a liberal boycott of the food company, Mary which, presumably, refers to the presidents niece and her damning tell-all book, and Hogan, which likely alluded to Maryland Gov. Larry Hogans scathing Washington Post essay condemning Trumps pandemic response. Also included were notable files on former President Barack Obama, as well as subjects used to frequently criticize Trump like Golf, Russia, Hate, and a misspelled Meuller.
But many of the tabs spoke to this White Houses favorite boogeymen, with categories such as Media, Lies, China, BLM, Privil suggesting white privilege, and one simply labeled Absurd. Statues was also included as was LGBT. Notably, one tab was labeled Karl, which might be an oppo brief against ABC News White House correspondent Jon Karl, who has frequently clashed with Trump at press conferences.
Finally, in what appeared to be the last tab, at the bottom of the book, was one labeled Wins.
It also demonstrates how predictable they are in their vile underhandedness. It’s like she is saying “thank you for the stupid question we knew some moron would ask. “
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