‘What Christ would want me to do’: Ex-White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany says her faith moved her to defend Trump after Capitol riot
What would Kayleigh McEnany would do? The same thing all over again.
The former White House spokeswoman said Tuesday that she was moved by “Christ” to defend President Trump’s administration after his supporters stormed the Capitol.
McEnany spent her first extensive interview since leaving the White House offering an odd spiritual explanation for her controversial two-minute statement the day after the Jan. 6 riot.
“I knew I needed to go to the podium,” McEnany said on Fox News. “I knew that’s what Christ would want me to do. I knew it’s what, as a woman of faith, I needed to do.”
McEnany refused to take questions at the briefing, which came as Trump himself stayed out of sight just hours after the mob broke into the Capitol building.
The ex-White House press secretary also moaned that the attempted siege, which led to Trump’s impeachment for inciting the mob, prevented her from carrying out a swan song briefing.
“I wanted to do a press briefing on the way out about all the great achievements of this administration, and all the good that I felt that the president had done,” McEnany said. “Obviously [after] Jan. 6, it just was something that was not tenable.”
McEnany did not elaborate why it was “not tenable” to answer reporters’ questions during Trump’s final days in office. The lightning-rod White House spokeswoman, who had a rocky relationship with the press corps, simply noted that the final days were “sad.”
“We were packing boxes, and we were sad that this was one of the last events that happened on the way out the door,” she said. “It was a somber time.”
