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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

Excellent post. McEnany is yet another fake conservative who is trotted forward by globalists to manipulate the public. These people are all liars who just recite whatever words will make them money in the moment. They don’t have principles. They’re in it entirely for the cash. They don’t care about this country or its people. And Rupert Moloch is their god.


61 posted on 06/01/2023 11:28:09 AM PDT by GulliverSwift
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To: SoConPubbie

Trump likely had no idea when KM was hired as a low-level press flack. He was in charge of a bureaucracy with millions of employees.

And he was also saddled with establishment RINOs like Mike Pence and his band of fake Christian globalists who surely recommended KM very highly. This sort of thing was Trump’s biggest weakness when he first came into office. There was no “America First” infrastructure at the time. But now there is.


62 posted on 06/01/2023 11:30:43 AM PDT by GulliverSwift
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To: SoConPubbie

Wow. Eight years ago she said something? Anyone ask her about this when she worked for DJT?

gimme a break.


63 posted on 06/01/2023 12:08:03 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Fury

Exactly... Folks will dig up what’s needed to support Trump no matter what. Trump went off on Kayleigh so everyone needs to go off on Kayleigh.


64 posted on 06/01/2023 12:11:31 PM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: FreeReign
Outside of that job she seems to have some issues.

It would seem to me that her positions on current event issues would need to align with the President for whom she works?

65 posted on 06/01/2023 12:19:55 PM PDT by Fury
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To: SoConPubbie
Somehow, President Trump is supposed to know everything about everyone, and even if those in his innermost circle are giving him bad advice about Nominees or Cabinent Members, he is supposed to always get it right.

The Press Secretary IS in his innermost circle.

66 posted on 06/01/2023 12:20:57 PM PDT by Fury
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To: Fury
It would seem to me that her positions on current event issues would need to align with the President for whom she works?

She preformed well for President Trump. Now she preforms "well" for Murdoch and Ryan.

67 posted on 06/01/2023 12:28:20 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign

yikes *performed*


68 posted on 06/01/2023 12:33:47 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: SoConPubbie

Some Trump picks tried to undercut him right out of the gate or at some point in his term. Others. like McEnany actually did a good job while working for him. But obviously there was no personal loyalty involved.

She’s part of the consultant/media class. And almost all of them have political leanings that are left of center, or else they believe in nothing at all and are only loyal to whoever writes them the biggest paycheck.


69 posted on 06/01/2023 12:35:01 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: SoConPubbie

telling Don Lemon that illegals are “here to stay”

That’s been the case for 30 years. Reality sometimes sux. Her performance as press secretary was exceptionally good.


70 posted on 06/01/2023 1:11:39 PM PDT by e_castillo
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To: GulliverSwift

“McEnany is yet another fake conservative who is trotted forward by globalists to manipulate the public.”

Trump trotted her out as his spokesperson.


71 posted on 06/01/2023 1:31:48 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: SoConPubbie
Even with the dated reference, this should clear-up in some people's minds where McEnany is coming from.

So pretty much identical to the things to Donald Trump himself was saying in the exact same time frame and had been saying for some time. He was calling for path to citizenship, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxZkg0rOWI4&t=120s

He also previously attacked Romney for what he said was being being too tough on the immigration issue and blamed his loss on it. https://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Donald-Trump-Ronald-Kessler/2012/11/26/id/465363/

#Reality

72 posted on 06/01/2023 3:15:42 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: srmanuel; Fury
"If we are going to hold her to those standards shouldn’t we hold Trump to the same standards??"

Of course not - since her views on the issue at the time she said them in this article were the same as Trump's own views at that time they are raking her over the coals for. There is no reality with these people.

https://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Donald-Trump-Ronald-Kessler/2012/11/26/id/465363/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxZkg0rOWI4&t=120s

73 posted on 06/01/2023 3:24:16 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: GulliverSwift
Excellent post. McEnany is yet another fake conservative who is trotted forward by globalists to manipulate the public. These people are all liars who just recite whatever words will make them money in the moment. They don’t have principles. They’re in it entirely for the cash. They don’t care about this country or its people. And Rupert Moloch is their god. Trump likely had no idea when KM was hired as a low-level press flack. He was in charge of a bureaucracy with millions of employees. And he was also saddled with establishment RINOs like Mike Pence and his band of fake Christian globalists who surely recommended KM very highly. This sort of thing was Trump’s biggest weakness when he first came into office. There was no “America First” infrastructure at the time. But now there is.

So you say it is valid to claim someone supposedly has no principles and they are a fake conservative based on a statement made in 2015 you find objectionable, when the person you are championing in your above remarks was taking precisely the same position on this issue in the same time period. How does that make sense?

https://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Donald-Trump-Ronald-Kessler/2012/11/26/id/465363/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxZkg0rOWI4&t=120s

74 posted on 06/01/2023 3:34:26 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

Trump actually changed his mind. That’s the difference. McEnany and almost all the NeverTrumpers who cash the big fat paychecks were just playing along.

And you can see that by the migration of so many of them to support Rob DeSaster, a candidate they know is supported by the globalist libertarian billionaires.


75 posted on 06/01/2023 4:35:00 PM PDT by GulliverSwift
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