06/22/20: Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Holds a Press Briefing

Hello everyone, this past Father's Day weekend we saw violence across the country, but we saw little media coverage of this violence. Let's be clear: these states are responsible for policing their streets, the governors, the mayors are responsible for ensuring that our streets are safe, that the American people are protected and what we have seen is that in too many states and cities governed by Democrats we have seen violence and chaos and nothing like the law and order we saw here in DC when President Trump intervened and increased the National Guard. In Chicago, for example, we saw more than 100 people shot and 14 tragically killed, including a three-year-old child among the victims, and a local media outlet tragically reported that several teenagers were murdered in Chicago this weekend and in Minneapolis, eleven people were shot and one person killed an individual was a father of two who worked as a barber and our hearts break for this family also in New York City from Democrat Ron we saw that the New York Post reported that there was a hourly shooting this Saturday absolutely inexcusable with 24 people shot on Saturday alone and then a Democrat governed in Seattle.

We have seen the autonomous zone also known as chop CH or pee. One person was shot to death in this autonomous zone governed by radical anarchists and we also saw another shooting there yesterday as well and the Democrats. the mayor of the city called chop to quote the summer of love but it has clearly been nothing of this kind with two individuals shot one person shot dead it is the governor's responsibility to protect their states to police their streets the power of the police falls to the state level and we expect the mayors to step up and do their jobs and the governors to step up and do their jobs in the mold of President Trump, who secured DC after a night of lawlessness two weeks ago, finally the defund police movement is wrong, it will only do harm.

Vulnerable citizens of American cities are the saddest and most shameful, and with that I'll take a daily yes, thank you, as the president actually ordered officials to slow down coronavirus testing. No, he had not ordered that and in fact he would. Keep in mind that, first of all, we are still testing about 500,000 people a day, about half a million people a day. $1.8 billion invested in NIH to find new testing capabilities. Any suggestion that the evidence has been reduced has no basis in fact and yes, I would just like to point out the extraordinary. The efforts of this administration are more than me right now twenty-six point seven million tests and we should be north of Tony when he said on Saturday he told us people to slow down what do you mean the president was trying to expose what that what the media often does is ignore the fact that the United States has more cases because we have more testing, we are leading the world in testing and he was pointing out that it is a fact that the media easily ignores and says notify people who slow down testing. not true it was a comment he made and jokingly it's a comment he made in passing specifically regarding media coverage and pointing out the fact that the media never acknowledges that we have more cases because when you test more people you find more cases appropriate to joke about the borona virus when 120,000 people have died and he wasn't joking about the coronavirus.

I just said he was joking about the media and his inability to understand the fact that when you do more testing you also find more cases, that's all. There's a lot to follow up on that, has the president ever delayed allocating all the funds that have already been dedicated to national testing? No, on the contrary, the president has led the way to make us the leading country in the world in testing; In fact, the FDA has authorized 144 tests under the EU emergency use authorization, these include 122 molecular tests 21 antibody tests an antigen test and the president has led the way in making us the world leader when it comes to to the administration that has about 14 billion dollars of funds that have been approved but not yet allocated.

I just mentioned the 1.8 billion at the NIH that are there and we are exploring new tests, we are leading the world and the tests and we will continue to do so yes, I stood alone last July, President Trump declared himself the least racist person anywhere in the world why does he use racist phrases like completely? Well, the president doesn't. What the president does is point out the fact that the origin of the virus is China. It's fair to point it out. China is trying to ridiculously rewrite history ridiculously claiming the coronavirus from American soldiers this is what China is trying to do what President Trump says not China I will label this virus by its place of origin using the racist phrase Kong flu that I used to call it It's linking to where you're from, Asian Americans who are deeply offended and concerned that its use will lead to more attacks of discrimination, so the president has said very clearly that it's important that we fully protect our Asian community in the US.

USA and around the world. They are incredible. the people and the spread of the virus is not their fault in any way they are working closely with us to get rid of it we will prevail together it is very important so it is not a discussion about Asian Americans whom the president values and value. as citizens of this great country, it is an indictment of China for allowing this virus to get here and I would also point out that the media blames President Trump for using the terms China virus and Wuhan virus when they themselves have used these same terms in New York.

Times called it the Chinese coronavirus Reuters the Chinese virus CNN the Chinese coronavirus January 20 The Washington Post January 21 The Chinese coronavirus and I have more than and other examples categorically the language flu is extremely offensive to many people in the Asian community -American to be clear, is that you? saying that the White House doesn't think it's racist to be clear, I think the media is trying to play with the terminology of this virus where the focus should be on the fact that China let this out of their country, the same phrase that the media now condemns outright it has been used by the media I can give more examples Wuhan virus CNN said January 22nd and we can go on and on and on while the media wants to focus on nomenclature the president will focus on action yes, okay , the President and the Attorney General offered different explanations over the weekend behind the firing of Jeffrey Berman.

Can the US Attorney for New York now clarify why Berman was fired and whether it was at the President's request? Well, I think they were very in sync this weekend. about the Attorney General and the president and this is what happened: the president retained mr. Clayton, in very high regard, wanted to nominate him for this position and SDN why keep him in government when he returns to the New York Bar was working on a smooth transition and when Berman decided to respond the way he did, it came to the president and the president agreed and fired this individual, mr.

Berman as mr. Clayton will now eventually reach that position, mr. Furman was fired in the first place because mr. Clayton wanted to return to New York City, we wanted to keep him in government and that's why they gave him the job in St. NY, but why the president? I have two questions, but why did the president say that he was involved in the firing of Jeff Berman when the Attorney General said that he was the president who fired them because the Attorney General was taking the lead in this matter and he went to the president and told him reported when mr.

Berman decided not to leave and that is when the president agreed with the Attorney General's decision to fire the man. Berman and promote mr. Clay, although he was involved in it, who was involved in the appropriation capacity, he was not AG, the bar was leading the way, but in an approval capacity, yes, the president was, so my second question about the evidence en: you said the president made that comment. and about making people slow down testing, the vice president only said it was done in passing, it seems Navarro said it was ironic, but when a reporter asked the president himself about an hour ago, he didn't say he was just joking when he said who told officials to slow down testing, the president took that opportunity to extol the fact that we've done over 25 million tests and we're finding more people because we're doing more testing and I would like to point out that what the vice president said in Peter Navarro, whether ingest and pass or ironically, they are all synonyms and I know that volvo-bg.

No, you don't even have to answer this. the media has never called it coming flu calling it Chinese cars and calling it coming flu are very different media the media and their networks specifically called it the media and their networks specifically have repeatedly used the term China virus and Wuhan virus and then went on to derive that the president somehow used a term that day that they themselves had never used so that we could review Mr. CNN. Haly, I would be more than happy to review the story for CNN on February 9th. You talked about the Wuhan coronavirus on January 23.

You talked about the Wuhan coronavirus on January 22. The Wuhan virus. I can write it all down for you, calling it that. detail for a few minutes you know, hailey, yes, just admit that it's not the same as conduct, yes, Justin loop, our first is to follow what you're talking about with Berman, so obviously the president made the decision to equate himself with work and that. Ledge deferred a brouhaha that we saw over the weekend, but there is a decision to remove Berman's points before Clayton was nominated or before Clayton was nominated or, more importantly, confirmed, so I think the question is why he removed the acting federal prosecutor. of this job before there was a Senate confirmable spot because there is an intention to put Clayton there and therefore there will be an interim individual and an interim attorney while we work to get Mr.

Clayton in that position, yeah, I guess the question is why didn't he continue in his position with the full question because we're hopeful that Clayton is confirmed, we're not going to leave him there, we're going to put an interim person in his place, I don't know. will carry out any investigation. The effect will be affected by this, as Attorney General Barr, the president of the weekends, made it clear that the heat did not impose sanctions on China for the weaker internment camps because he was concerned about its ability to negotiate the agreement commercial, but from the commercial agreement. was signed in January, China, as you mentioned earlier, has not only acted in ways that frustrated you regarding the coronavirus, but the president announced our behavior in Hong Kong and fell short of many other tenants of the trade agreement by Same time. the president signed a nationwide executive order with Liberty, so I wonder when the president will actually sanction Chinese officials under the original legislation or the legislation he signed last week. that, but what I will say so far is that you took note of this and your question that he signed legislation to hold China accountable for the treatment of weavers and other minorities in China, but previously also imposed visa restrictions on Chinese officials over China's treatment of League members and other minorities, has blacklisted companies that were complicit in China's treatment, has cracked down, but I will tell you that the president was very satisfied with the demonstration I was at with him and I just have to say these media reports that he was somehow furious on the plane, there is no basis, in fact I was with him on Marine One on the way there in Marine One after he was very, very pleased with how the demonstration went and the media reported on This prompted me to ask some of my colleagues if they had seen anything different and I spoke to Dan's Covino, who was on the Beast with the president right after the rally and today he was very energized from being around the American people, so I, he, he.

He was quite satisfied with the development of the demonstration and even a political expert wrote to him that it was one of the best speeches of all time that they had heard. We saw him expose his own humanity when he described the wonderful history of West Point that the speech turned into his message so clear and compelling that no one could have missed it and it was great to be out of the swamp and in the country and those comments are how the president feels Also, if any changes are made to these events, like having more outdoor events where people gather or what has been accomplished, so let me noteabout future demonstrations.

I would recommend you to the campaign. Yes, thank you very much. I wanted to ask you about the Koran virus, who is the highest ranking person at the moment and who is completely focused. time on the coronavirus with no other tasks, just coronavirus, who would that person be and what kind of authority does this person have to spend US resources, so in the Trump administration we are pretty good at doing two things at once , expected to do many things at the same time, the vice president continues to lead the task force that meets periodically dr. Falchi is there dr.

Burks, is dr. Redfield is there speaking regularly with the governor, they had a call from the governor today, the president is regularly briefed on the status of the coronavirus and is regularly involved in the decision making as we move forward, to see if there is a specific person who is focused on this. full time with no other tasks, many people focus on this high level person, dr. Dr. Dr. Redfield. Dr. Burks. Fauci, all of our experts are involved, the vice president leaves the task force every day, but we do a lot of things at once in this administration and we've done a pretty good job with the coronavirus and we're pleased to see it's a tragedy every time. a life lost to the coronavirus, but we are pleased to see that yesterday for the first time there were less than 300 deaths, so we are going in the right direction, we are aware when there are increases here and there and those embers we are prepared to handle to put out and save as many lives as possible and thanks to President Trump we could have lost three million lives, but we lost a lot less because President Trump took early action in Venezuela, but first I just wanted to follow up very quickly on what we just questioned. and Caitlyn's partner, does the president regret using the term?, concludes regardless of the fact that media organizations, including mine, had from the beginning described the virus as the women's virus, which is eight different things and the same thing is released.

Does the president regret having used that term? He regrets putting the blame back on China, pointing out that China is responsible for this and in the process defending US troops whom China blames and a disinformation campaign and it's Venezuela whom the president considers the legitimate leader. of Venezuela and is he still interested in some way of meeting with President Nicolás Maduro? Yes, I'm really glad you asked this question. The president tweeted today that, unlike the radical left, I will always be against socialism and with the people of Venezuela my administration has always stood firm. on the side of freedom and against the op

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ive Maduro regime nothing has changed he continues to recognize Juan Glide oh how the leader of Venezuela John Bolton has completely discredited him himself multiple senior administration officials are on the record exposing his lies and even The media seems to have taken notice of John Bolton, I mean how ridiculous some of the things he said and the criticism his book received have been.

I've been right in the media, the media has said that this book is extremely tedious and a little unhinged and bloated. with personal importance, that was the New York Times. The New Yorker said he has an inflated view of himself and is willing to blame others for almost everything the Federalists said and the numerous serious factual errors Pompeo has highlighted as false. hyzer and others who have come out and said that this book is full of erroneous truths about themselves and others in this administration and certainly about the president, do you claim that was not true?

Yes it's all right, thank you very much. Did he want to go? Back at the SP, my and and the bourbon was Jeffrey bourbon fire because of the investigations he had supervised into President Trump's associates, including the route to Giuliani and Michael Cohen, which he fired because he had supervised those investigations, no he wasn't and, as I noted previously and Attorney General Barr noted, this will not disrupt the case being handled by the district, which will proceed as normal. The president of the White House is not at least concerned about the appearance of irregularity in the dismissal, given that those cases were handled in his office.

The administration has explained very clearly the reason why he is leaving and it is because Mr. Clayton will take on that role Morgan, thanks Kaylee. It's the way I was concerned about the fact that foreign virus cases are now declining nationally after having plateaued and that requires something new. I think it is a very important question. I'm asking and what would you notice about the death numbers and we're glad to see that number going down. I would also point out that dr. Burks told me that more of these cases are less serious positive cases than at the beginning of this pandemic because what is happening is that thanks to our extraordinary work with testing we are able to identify cases in the community before they develop symptoms and are in a hospital, so instead of identifying cases in hospitals, we are identifying them in the community, which is a really good and positive development and we are equipped to handle when we see these embers that tricks have occurred.

I think we have two quick questions: The first is that the president has attacked the move to remove Confederate statues across the country. He said there was an assault on our heritage. What do the White House and the president say to Americans who find it offensive to glorify people owned by others? Americans, including enslaved African Americans, I would like to point out about the statues that what we're seeing across the country is actually quite confusing because you're seeing statues facing each other like the Gandhi statue and the Ulysses Grant statues and the Mathias Baldwin abolitionist statute. .

At the same time they tell us that the statue of George Washington should come down and the statue of Thomas Jefferson should come down. Where is the line drawn that you know from Gandhi to George Washington and it seems that the American people are very attracted to it? I agree with the President on this, I am not going to tear down these statues. Less than a third of those surveyed, according to the morning poll, believe that these statues should be torn down. 61 percent are opposed, according to Maris. 62 percent, according to Maris. So I would point out that And I would say that when people look at the statue to face the mints and the beheading of some of these statues like Christopher Columbus, where do you draw the line because apparently the line goes all the way to Gandhi, so this was my second ask?

On the subject of kung-fu I spoke with Kelly about Conway when in March he said it was very offensive and wrong to use that tense, does the president agree with Kelly at all? Where he's now saying that term isn't very offensive and I'm wrong because I can, that's what Kelly said in the comics. I think who is wrong. The president doesn't think it's offensive to point out that this virus came from China and defend an American military that China is making an active effort to completely smear and that's it. unacceptable to the president, well again Kellyanne Conway said it was wrong and offensive, are you saying he was wrong to say Chanel, it was probably John Bolton and his book, if he continues to be prosecuted as the raishin feels this would establish o He is not afraid that this will set a precedent or embolden public servants to violate their oaths to this nation for political purposes.

That is absolutely worrying. Look at the information in John Bolton's book was classified information confirmed by the highest national security and intelligence officials and look. has NSA Director Nakasone saying this could cause the permanent loss of a valuable intelligence source and damage to the US intelligence system. DNI Radcliffe says much the same thing. You have another government official saying that the unauthorized release of this information could reasonably be expected to enable foreign threat actors, this is how seriously we look at this book and the NSC looks at this book as they scan it for classified information, there is real damage that can be done and for what, for the self-promotion and publicity of a failed NSA director in the news.

Where, yes, I could ask about Maduro and well, why does President Trump seem to have lost confidence somehow? No, he hasn't lost confidence at all and the tweets I read to you say very clearly what the president posted this morning. with the Venezuelan people and their fight for freedom and I would also like to point out how hard this president has been with Maduro in recognizing wongu I accept and when you compare that to the Obama-Biden administration, there was former Vice President Joe Biden, who in fact met with Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and accessorized his hair according to Yahoo News If I had your hair I would be president of the United States, the former vice president said and Obama's State Department helped stabilize the Maduro regime by blocking sanctions according to a report 2017.

Miami Herald report, so when you compare the actions of this president, we have opposed socialism and we are on the side of freedom and finally, one thing I just want to point out that was handed to me. Wow, a whopping seven point seven million total viewers come back. They tuned into Fox News to watch the rally about Saturday night's big numbers. Thank you so much guys.