by Frank Holmes, reporter
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany has made the Fake News media’s life a living hell—but she believes defending the truth is a job given to her from heaven.
“I believe God put me in this place for a purpose and for a reason, like He does with each and every life,” she says. “We’re all here for a reason.”
McEnany hasn’t been on the job for two months yet, but she makes the mainstream media squirm as she corrects their biased reporting every single day.
She went viral when she recognized Reuters correspondent Jeff Mason, who wanted her to criticize her boss’ handling of the Wuhan flu.
Mason asked if she would like to retract a statement she made in February on Fox Business Channel that “President Trump will not allow the coronavirus to come to this country.” No one knew then that the first U.S. case of the Chinese flu had already infected a 35-year-old man. President Donald Trump’s travel ban to China—which the media called racist—saved lives.
McEnany didn’t apologize or backtrack.
She unloaded.
She recited a list of media lies about COVID-19 for all the country to see.
“Does Vox want to take back that they proclaim the coronavirus would not be a deadly pandemic? Does The Washington Post want to take back that they told Americans to get a grip, that the flu is bigger than the coronavirus?” she asked.
She rattled off even more examples from The New York Times and taxpayer-funded NPR, asking if each outlet wanted to take back its phony reporting.
“I’ll leave you with those questions and maybe you’ll have some answers in a few days,” she said in what the conservative Media Research Center called a scorching, “mic drop” moment.
Rocked back on his heels, Mason could only say, “You were prepared for that ask!”
But McEnany relied on more than a fat print out of media lies. She says she leans on the power of prayer to get her through the media’s circus-like atmosphere.
She says she was so nervous before her first daily press briefing that “I called my mom and on speakerphone, my family and we all prayed together.” “All of a sudden I took a deep breath and after those prayers…I felt such strength,” she tells CBN News.
After that, she “walked out and did the job that only could be done if God was there helping you along the way.”
McEnany is a born again Southern Baptist who went to Catholic schools in Florida. She helped get the message out as producer of The Mike Huckabee Show for three years. The former Arkansas governor and two-time Republican presidential candidate called McEnany a “meticulous researcher.”
She graduated from Harvard Law School but used the debate tactics she learned there against the elites as a GOP national spokesperson. But she really learned the art of verbal combat as a conservative panelist on CNN, where she was often outnumbered two-, three-, or four-to-one…not counting the host.
Now, she pays her old network back at often as possible. Twitter slapped a “fact check” on one of President Trump’s tweets warning that mail-in ballots had a high potential for voter fraud. Twitter was wrong and Trump was right, as The Horn News reported.
But CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta accused McEnany personally of “trying to silence fact-checking by going after Twitter.”
McEnany stood her ground and fired back that CNN dropped one “fictional bombshell” after another, including the “egregious” way “CNN botched their WikiLeaks email exclusive.”
“If anyone needs to be fact-checked, I think it should be the media,” she said.
McEnany is more than capable of holding reporters’ feet to the fire—and she could be giving CNN headaches for years to come.
At 32, McEnany is the third youngest White House Press Secretary, behind Bill Clinton’s 31-year-old spokeswoman Dee Dee Myers and 29-year-old Ron Ziegler, who worked for Richard Nixon.
She’s sharing her secret life of faith with others in the Trump White House, leading a Bible study where Trump staffers “pray and read the Word.”
“It was a little rod of lightning, of just energy and joy in our day,” she says.
That energy gives her the strength to fulfill what she considers a divine calling: shutting down liberal media lies.
But it also got her through one of her darkest moments: After McEnany found out she carried a genetic mutation that causes breast cancer, she prayed before she decided to have a double masectomy.
She plans to spend many years with her husband, Sean, a pitcher with the Tampa Bay Rays, and their seven-month-old baby girl, Blake.
In fact, she may be prepping the next generation of fearless conservative leadership.
“I know at the end of the day, if I give Blake the same faith upbringing and relationship with Jesus Christ that my parents gave me, she will be an unstoppable woman of faith in whatever she decides to do.”
Her mom gives Blake — and conservatives and Republicans everywhere — a lesson in fearless and unstoppable faith every single day.
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”