"The president has never lied to the American public on Covid" -- Kaleigh McEnany (Trump in fact said coronavirus would go away on its own without anyone dying 190,000 deaths ago)
. @GeoffRBennett: POTUS by his own admission acknowledged the depth of this crisis, and yet told the American people something very different. How is that not an abject betrayal of the public trust?
McENANY: Your referencing something he allegedly said
BENNETT: It's on tape
McENANY: Your referencing something he allegedly said
BENNETT: It's on tape
"One day [coronavirus] will go away. That's a fact" -- it's also a fact we're all gonna die but that doesn't mean we should just ignore public health threats
Q: Why did Trump have thousands of people at a rally last night, in violation of his own administration's guidance?
McENANY: People have a first amendment right to peaceful protest
Q: Doesn't he have a responsibility to keep people safe?
McENANY: *moves on immediately*
McENANY: People have a first amendment right to peaceful protest
Q: Doesn't he have a responsibility to keep people safe?
McENANY: *moves on immediately*
Trump's tax returns could not be reached for comment
Q: How is it not misleading for Trump's advisors to tell him and compare this virus to the Spanish flu of 1918, but for the president to say publicly that this could disappear by April?
McENANY: The president was expressing calm.
McENANY: The president was expressing calm.
"Kayleigh, if he's not lying, why did he call it a hoax?" -- @BrianKarem to Kayleigh McEnany as she walks away from the podium