Speaking on behalf of the entire White House for a total of two minutes, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany tried to rewrite history Thursday afternoon by denying full responsibility for Trump’s deadly riot at the Capitol of the United States. United States the day before.
“Let me be clear,” McEnany began. “The violence we saw yesterday at the Capitol of our nation was horrible, reprehensible and antithetical in the American way. We condemn it, the president and this administration, in the strongest possible terms. It is unacceptable, and those who broke the law should be prosecuted to the extent of the law.
Then, after equating the pro-Trump crowd occupying the congressional chamber with Black Lives Matter protesters who allegedly lit a small fire in the basement of a church last summer, McEnany falsely claimed, “Those who they violently besieged our Capitol are the opposite of all this administration means. “
You could hear reporters shouting, “Where’s the president ?!” while McEnany fled the podium and left the press room.