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Kayleigh McEnany in 2015: Illegal Aliens ‘Here to Stay’, Deportation ‘Not the American Way’
National File ^ | May 31, 2023 | FRANKIE STOCKES

Posted on 06/01/2023 9:45:21 AM PDT by SoConPubbie

Kayleigh McEnany was a Never Trumper and open borders supporter during her time working for CNN.

Former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany backed open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens on CNN in 2015, telling Don Lemon that illegals are “here to stay” and that deportation is “not the American way” as she bashed the border hawk policies of then-candidate Donald Trump.

Kayleigh McEnany served as a token Republican on CNN before her time with the Trump White House and took up the mantle of Never Trumpism and Koch Brothers-style open borders during her time on air. Now, a video compilation has emerged documenting some of McEnany’s worst CNN moments, going viral on Twitter in the aftermath of her falling out with President Trump; which comes after McEnany, now with Fox News and apparently trying to nudge along the DeSantis campaign, minimized Trump’s lead over DeSantis in the 2024 primary polls.

“The mainstream Republican does not want to send the illegal immigrants back to Mexico,” McEnany told Don Lemon in 2015. “I think that they’re here to stay, that’s not the American way. We’re not going to ship people across the border. There has to be some path to citizenship.”

“Donald Trump has shown himself to be a showman,” McEnany added later in the same Lemon appearance.

“I don’t think he’s a serious candidate.”

In another CNN appearance in a Lemon-led panel discussion, McEnany slammed Trump as a “progressive” and said that she doesn’t “want to claim this guy” as a Republican.

Hilariously, the panel was discussing a CNN GOP Primary poll conducted between June 18th and 24th, 2015, which showed Jeb Bush leading the entire GOP field and future President Trump in second place.

“This is not a true Republican candidate,” McEnany said of Trump. “And the fact that he’s being portrayed as such in media is troublesome and not accurate.”

Watch the video below:

“Trump shouldn’t be so mean to Kayleigh!”

Also Kayleigh McEnany:

“People in New Hampshire are very sick, especially when they see that Donald Trump is No. 2 and doesn’t deserve to be there.”

“Donald Trump is the last person going to bring voters into the tent.”

“Mainstream… pic.twitter.com/vYZfT2E1gS

— Leskov Brandonovic (@fjb4587) May 31, 2023

McEnany’s transformation from an open-borders Never Trumper at CNN to a Trump White House Press Secretary to a pro-DeSantis anchor at Fox News could be compared to the evolution of another young female news anchor, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins.

In 2015, when McEnany worked as CNN’s token Republican panelist, Collins was working at The Daily Caller and joined a Fox News program to spout off anti-Soros talking points, warning that Soros was using open borders to replace Western populations.

Like McEnany, Collins has since made a major transformation and is now one of pro-Soros CNN’s most visible anchors.

Related 2015 Video: Kaitlan Collins Spouts Anti-Soros, White Replacement Talking Points on Fox News



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To: SoConPubbie

Should we hold her to her views from eight years ago, before she worked for Trump, when we saw her articulate and defend Trump between then and now as White House press secretary? No of course not. Trump is upset she said his commanding lead wasn’t quite as big as he said it was. Big deal. That’s on Trump and why the people who endear themselves to him and get appointed tend to be problems. Reasonable people, for the most part, don’t want the headache or to be tainted by association. He’s so thin skinned and disloyal it’s frustrating. It’s one of the reasons he can’t win a 2024 general election. Too many are tired of it.


21 posted on 06/01/2023 9:58:07 AM PDT by newzjunkey (We need a better Trump than Trump in 2024)
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To: Responsibility2nd

To keep up with his horrible record of hiring incompetent people.

But of course his next administration will be completely different. 🙄

********

You won’t have to worry about who Trump hires.

According to Trump critics on Free Republic, he’s unelectable.


22 posted on 06/01/2023 10:00:25 AM PDT by unclebankster ( Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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To: SoConPubbie
I looked it up and ‘holy’ Kayleigh is Catholic. She and the rest have demonstrated their intent to give away US to their poor brethren south of US ...

I can only imagine the celebrations when godfather Joey stole another US presidential election ... the locust are upon US. got to serve Rome ..

23 posted on 06/01/2023 10:00:54 AM PDT by Just mythoughts (Psalm 2. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
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To: GrootheWanderer
He seems to be a very poor judge of potential personnel.

I don’t think it matters. Whoever is available to hire in political circles did not achieve prominence through their astounding moral character - the competent and incompetent will all turn on the boss when they get a better offer.

24 posted on 06/01/2023 10:01:21 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Fury

“Then why did President Trump hire her?”

They both supported amnesty?


25 posted on 06/01/2023 10:05:11 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Fury

She did a good job.

The make up and gaudy false eyelashes were distracting.

Clearly she is a careerist and opportunist.


26 posted on 06/01/2023 10:07:27 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to se)
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To: Fury
Then why did President Trump hire her?

It was a mistake, much like his supporting and then pulling Gov Meatball over the Florida finish line in 2018.

27 posted on 06/01/2023 10:07:29 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: SoConPubbie

“Meanwhile, nary a peep where DeSanctimonious Campaign staff and Donators, and Endorsers are concerned even though they are part of the GOP-E / Globalist Cabal.”


On abortion, DeSantis defended Florida’s newly enacted six-week abortion ban against Trump criticism that it was “too harsh” and that DeSantis didn’t know what he was doing.

“He’s running to the left,” DeSantis said. But he also stopped short of endorsing the national abortion ban favored by other Republican candidates. “I think at the end of the day, we’re going to save more lives with a bottom-up approach,” he told conservative talk radio host Dana Loesch.

On immigration, DeSantis accused Trump of supporting amnesty for undocumented immigrants as part of a 2018 immigration bill. “To hit me for taking the America First position I think is pretty strange,” DeSantis said.

The Trump campaign responded that as a congressman, DeSantis voted for a bill that gave legal status to some undocumented minors as part of a package of tougher immigration restrictions, before opposing a similar plan.

On crime, DeSantis criticized the First Step Act, Trump’s signature criminal justice bill, telling conservative podcaster Ben Shapiro Friday that it was “basically a jailbreak bill.” DeSantis voted for an early version of the bill but resigned from Congress before the final bill passed the House.

https://fortune.com/2023/05/27/desantis-attacks-trump-presidential-candidate-gop/


28 posted on 06/01/2023 10:07:58 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: SoConPubbie
I liked the job Kayleigh did as Press Secretary for Trump, but I never knew she was a big NeverTrumper and Jeb Bush supporter back in the day. I did not know that.

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“Trump shouldn’t be so mean to Kayleigh!”

Also Kayleigh McEnany:

“People in New Hampshire are very sick, especially when they see that Donald Trump is No. 2 and doesn’t deserve to be there.”

“Donald Trump is the last person going to bring voters into the tent.”

“Mainstream Republicans don’t want to send illegal immigrants back to Mexico. That’s not the American way. There has to be some path to citizenship.”

“Donald Trump has shown himself to be a showman. I don’t think he’s a serious candidate.”

“I don’t want to claim Trump. He’s a progressive. He’s not a true Republican candidate.”

Wait until you find out who she’s gonna endorse this time. pic.twitter.com/vYZfT2E1gS— Leskov Brandonovic (@fjb4587) May 31, 2023


29 posted on 06/01/2023 10:08:06 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: SoConPubbie

Her daily press briefings, like Sanders’, were must-see-tv.
I saw nothing that resembled a NeverTrumper then.


30 posted on 06/01/2023 10:08:16 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: GrootheWanderer
She was an excellent Press Secretary.

If she now thinks illegal aliens are here to stay, she's gone off the deep end. That's not Trump's fault.

31 posted on 06/01/2023 10:08:26 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (See my FR homepage for a link to the entire Bible narrated by David Suchet on youtube. FREE!)
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To: Mr. N. Wolfe

tony snow


32 posted on 06/01/2023 10:08:52 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: SoConPubbie
Ya, let's keep attacking Kayleigh in an effort to justify Trump's attack critical that her poll number citations were understated....

This is how we're going to win?

There is the entire corrupt Biden Administration record out there to focus on, and we're wasting time slamming people deemed insufficiently enthusiastic for Trump.....????

33 posted on 06/01/2023 10:09:02 AM PDT by G Larry (It is RACIST to impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants by importing Cheap ILLEGAL Labor!)
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To: conservative98
Then there's:

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The day after the 2022 midterms, Kayleigh McEnany said Trump shouldn’t visit Georgia to rally for Herschel Walker, but Desantis should

She willfully fired off Paul Ryan talking points in an attempt to damage her former boss pic.twitter.com/3BfnE7jJIt— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) May 31, 2023


34 posted on 06/01/2023 10:09:45 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: GrootheWanderer

Seems to me that when he was president, that Trump did an incredible job with what he had to work with & with the resistance he had to put up with.


35 posted on 06/01/2023 10:10:05 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: Fury
Then why did President Trump hire her?

She performed her job very well.

Outside of that job she seems to have some issues.

36 posted on 06/01/2023 10:10:51 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: conservative98; SoConPubbie

Kayleigh McEnany has an obsessive love for the Bush family and Paul Ryan, just like the one she’s rooting for in the presidential primary. pic.twitter.com/CKTsSGjsEO— Leskov Brandonovic (@fjb4587) May 31, 2023

Kayleigh is not who I thought she was.

37 posted on 06/01/2023 10:11:08 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: SoConPubbie

“Not the American way”? We’ve always had immigration laws. We’ve always deported people for a variety of reasons. Now I guess she wants open borders? I hope this little twit has no doors or locks on her house.

Trump, Trump, Trump. Why did you hire so many backstabbing idiots?


38 posted on 06/01/2023 10:13:01 AM PDT by Nea Wood (Screw diversity. Celebrate excellence. )
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To: GrootheWanderer

Or it was a lack of available talent that shared his concern for the common American. We can see that the upper echalon of society’s main concern is how much money they can save by hiring illegals whenever they can.


39 posted on 06/01/2023 10:14:33 AM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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To: Jonty30

Good people, who have kick-ass professional lives in the private sector, don’t want to get in the mud, that is modern politics. Can’t say I blame them.


40 posted on 06/01/2023 10:16:01 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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