Kayleigh McEnany gave her first briefing as the new White House press secretary, and we may have CNN to thank for making such a great bulldog of an advocate for President Trump.
Washington Times reporter Tiana Lowe says CNN’s Jeff Zucker inadvertently made McEnany a rising star in the Trump universe by making her one of his “diverse range of principled conservatives in 2016.”
The New York Times Magazine wrote in 2017, “As Zucker sees it, his pro-Trump panelists are … ‘characters in a drama,’ members of CNN’s extended ensemble cast. ‘Everybody says, ‘Oh, I can’t believe you have Jeffrey Lord or Kayleigh McEnany,’ but you know what?’ Zucker told me with some satisfaction. ‘They know who Jeffrey Lord and Kayleigh McEnany are.’”
While former FOX News reporter and Current State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus was encouraged to be “fair and balanced” as the network’s national security contributor, CNN was grooming McEnany to express her innate allegiance to the President.
As Lowe reports, it wasn’t as though Fox News groomed Morgan Ortagus to “worship” Trump, but CNN accomplished that mission for Kayleigh McEnany all the way back in 2016.
Perhaps conservatives should thank CNN for making Trump’s new press secretary a superstar and a valued member of his administration.
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