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There is no defense for Trump's attack on Kayleigh ‘Milktoast' McEnany
Hot Air ^ | May 31, 2023 | Karen Townsend

Posted on 05/31/2023 11:29:34 AM PDT by Timber Rattler

Kayleigh McEnany came under attack by her former boss on Truth Social last night. His very thin skin was pierced by the former White House press secretary, now a Fox News host and contributor. Kayleigh quoted a poll number Trump disagreed with and he went full force against her on his social media platform.

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Kayleigh was hired by Trump to replace Sarah Huckabee Sanders. I really liked Sarah in the job, too. Both women had the ability to stand firm against the daily attacks by the press corps and defend Trump. They didn’t back down when the dialogue heated up, which it frequently did. Kayleigh was poised and very matter-of-fact in her answers, as a Harvard law school graduate, her training showed. She was a regular on CNN, the epicenter of Trump Derangement Syndrome, and would defend Trump as she sat for panel discussions. The panel was always Democrat-heavy because it was CNN, after all. She was a champ.

So, Kayleigh landed at Fox after her time at the White House came to an end. There is no doubt in my mind that Trump would have kept her as his press secretary if he served a second term. He praised her and her tenacity in defending her. Now that she sometimes speaks favorably of Ron DeSantis – she is a Florida resident and he is her governor – she is on Trump’s disloyal list. Loyalty goes only one way for Trump.

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No one worked harder for Trump than Kayleigh. Trump’s reaction to her appearance on the Watters show is indefensible. He is an old and bitter man, obsessed with avenging his election loss in 2020. He acts as though he will remain 30 or more points ahead in the polls. That isn’t realistic.

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To: Timber Rattler

Kayleigh does what Rupert says or she is gone. Both of them know that. She is on another team now.


141 posted on 05/31/2023 2:58:06 PM PDT by dforest (Get kiryandil back on FR.)
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To: Timber Rattler

The word is “milquetoast” and serves as either noun or adjective. Doesn’t apply to McEnany as a person in any case, but might apply to something she said of late. Let the buffalo chips fall where they may.


142 posted on 05/31/2023 3:00:32 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (/s)
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To: Timber Rattler

So, Trump attacks conservatives like DeSantis and Mcenany...

Next thing you know he’ll attack Lord Fauci. Oh, wait...he was afraid to go after Fauci.

Enter great Trump picks, Tillerson, Esper and Wray at FBI.


143 posted on 05/31/2023 3:01:36 PM PDT by rbmillerjr
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To: Timber Rattler
April 2024 approaches on stealthy feet.

Of course, the way Ron DeMitchsChoice and The Ukraine are doing, you might exit sooner than that...       

144 posted on 05/31/2023 3:20:29 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Timber Rattler
Looks like someone finally identified the exact Iowa poll that Kayleigh was referencing last night, and the numbers she cited were 100% correct:

There's an article up by someone else confirming it now too:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/31/trump-mcenany-polls-desantis-iowa/

So it appears TRUMP WAS FULL OF IT.

Of course many of us expected that all along.

145 posted on 05/31/2023 3:20:30 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Do you really believe Trump when he says Cuomo did better, and DeSantis will raise taxes by 23%? )
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To: Kazan
April 2024 is coming.   
146 posted on 05/31/2023 3:21:45 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Golden Eagle

Trump tends to make shit up


147 posted on 05/31/2023 3:22:44 PM PDT by rbmillerjr
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To: Falconspeed

Other reply to you is correct.

But the other part is that Trump dishes it out constantly. He is an easy target for those “hate” attacks on him. He begs for it. But dishes it out and can’t take it (or at least his lovers can’t take it).

As other poster replied, Palin was not attacking - childishly - other Republicans ever.


148 posted on 05/31/2023 3:25:19 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV.e)
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To: Timber Rattler

“Milktoast” McEnany, Ron “DeSanctimonious”, hmmm?

It appears that ol’ Lockdown Don has contempt for people that exhibit self-control, marital fidelity, and other Christian virtues. I guess it shouldn’t be a surprise he holds this disrespect since he reveres those famous elites, Andrew Cuomo and Gavin Newsom, that share the same contempt.


149 posted on 05/31/2023 3:33:28 PM PDT by chickenlips (Trump gave you pep rallies, merch and Fauci, DeSantis gives you results)
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To: rbmillerjr

All those who have been calling for Kayleigh to apologize, for misquoting the poll, obviously now need to call on Trump to apologize, instead. I’ll be shocked if I see a single one do it, however. He’s such a victim, you know LOL.


150 posted on 05/31/2023 3:35:10 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Do you really believe Trump when he says Cuomo did better, and DeSantis will raise taxes by 23%? )
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To: kiryandil
So remind me again what is supposed to happen in April 2024?


151 posted on 05/31/2023 3:45:30 PM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: Timber Rattler
It's actually looking like March 2024.

Tick-tock.

152 posted on 05/31/2023 3:50:19 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: chickenlips; StAnDeliver
You're still angry about Trump crushing Ted and his Tedlim army on Free Republic in 2016.

Amazing.

Hey, StAnDeliver - get a load of this Pacific island jungle holdout of the Tedlim Imperial Primary Army of 2016.      

153 posted on 05/31/2023 3:52:45 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Timber Rattler

PDJT has been maligned, impeached, unjustly arrested, called every name in the book, had treasonous politicians try and put him in jail……you all should just be quiet on this one. If someone switches sides after gaining fame because they worked in Trumps admin then………SHAME on them. He has a perfect right to lay them out.


154 posted on 05/31/2023 4:29:51 PM PDT by Greenidgypsy (I loathe the MSM.)
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To: Golden Eagle
And you know Trump wasn't referring to this, the latest poll, how? Unnamed sources and the Washington Post?

InteractivePolls @IAPolls2022 · 5h
🚨 National Poll by @wearebigvillage (B-), May 26-28

GOP PRES:
Trump — 58%(+34)
DeSantis — 24%
Scott — 5%
Haley — 5%
Ramaswamy — 3%
Hutchinson — 1%

Link

So it appears TRUMP WAS FULL OF IT. Of course many of us expected that all along.

Who's full of it?

155 posted on 05/31/2023 6:01:03 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: ConservativeInPA

Funny how virtually every single Trump hire turns out to be a total piece of shit. Amazing, actually.


156 posted on 05/31/2023 6:03:43 PM PDT by Tea Party Terrorist (Eat the Rich)
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To: EnquiringMind

‘We all do’

Uh, no we don’t……not since he corrupted the hard work by volunteers efforts to restore him as governor, knowing full well he was going to run out on us


157 posted on 05/31/2023 6:08:05 PM PDT by Guenevere (“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”)
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To: fightin kentuckian

The vast majority aren’t going to allow a literal Karen to tell us what to do.

Hot Air is for RINOs.


158 posted on 05/31/2023 6:11:18 PM PDT by GulliverSwift
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To: FreeReign
And you know Trump wasn't referring to this, the latest poll, how?

Rather obviously, because Kayleigh identified the poll in question is a poll from IOWA, not a national poll, as you linked.

The Iowa poll in question also shows the exact numbers Kayleigh referenced, a drop for Trump from 34 to 25.

Your poll is not a poll from Iowa, is it?

Who's full of it?

Not Kayleigh, it doesn't appear.

159 posted on 05/31/2023 6:13:16 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Do you really believe Trump when he says Cuomo did better, and DeSantis will raise taxes by 23%? )
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To: Golden Eagle
And you know Trump wasn't referring to this, the latest poll, how? Rather obviously, because Kayleigh identified the poll in question is a poll from IOWA, not a national poll, as you linked.

Okay, you're right. I was looking at the twitter handle from an "IA" user. But yes I see now it was a "national poll".

Not Kayleigh, it doesn't appear.

I was thinking it was The Washington Post. And I couldn't get past the WP paywall.

160 posted on 05/31/2023 6:26:15 PM PDT by FreeReign
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