Kayleigh McEnany

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Kayleigh McEnany (2020)

Kayleigh McEnany (born April 18, 1988 in Tampa , Florida ) is an American lawyer , commentator and presenter . Since April 7, 2020, she has been the press secretary of the White House as the successor to Stephanie Grisham . She is the fourth person in this office since the inauguration of President Donald Trump in 2017. was the tradition of press conferences, which under Beneath her Sarah Sanders , resumed had been abandoned.

Life

McEnany attended the Academy of the Holy Names , a private Catholic school in Tampa , West Florida . She attended Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service (BSFS) in International Politics, in Washington, DC . Later she studied at the Harvard Law School Law .

She worked as a journalist and commentator a. a. for CNN . During the 2016 presidential campaign, she was very active as a commentator for the Republican candidate Donald Trump .

Kayleigh McEnany at her first White House press conference

From August 2017, she hosted Real News , a video series on Trump's official Facebook page. On August 7, 2017, the Republican National Committee named her future press secretary . It is with the US since 2017 Baseball - Pitcher Sean Gilmartin married and has with him a daughter.

On February 19, 2019, President Trump's re-election campaign announced that it would hire McEnany as its national press secretary. On April 7, 2020, the White House announced that the previous White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham would be leaving her post and being replaced by McEnany. On May 1, McEnany held the first White House press conference in over a year. She assured journalists that she would never lie to them.

Positions

McEnany speaks at Turning Point USA 's Young Women's Leadership Summit (2018)

McEnany described herself on her Twitter profile as "Christian" and "Conservative". After switching from CNN to “Real News”, a production by Donald Trump, the Süddeutsche Zeitung called her the official “Trump brand ambassador”.

On February 25, 2020, on the Trish Regan Show on Fox Business Network , she praised the way Trump responded to the coronavirus pandemic .

“This president will always put America first and protect American citizens. We will not see diseases like the coronavirus come here, we will not see terrorism come here. And isn't that refreshing compared to Obama's horrific presidency ? "
(“This president will always put America first, he will always protect American citizens, we will not see diseases like the coronavirus come here, we will not see terrorism come here and isn't it refreshing when contrasting it with the awful presidency of President Obama. ”)

At that time, there had already been several cases of corona infections in the United States.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kayleigh McEnany: Thank you to my incredible @GOP colleagues !! Best team ever: @miki_carver, @kristenlemel & @allieecarroll w / the awesome decorations !! @CMSmedile, @michael_ahrens & @_BlairEllis w / the cookies !! @rcmahoney & Lindsay Jancek- our Comms leaders! PLUS many more colleagues !! # Blessedpic.twitter.com / auMCHXPSvR. In: @kayleighmcenany. April 18, 2018, accessed April 14, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Kayleigh McEnany becomes Donald Trump's new spokesperson. In: The time . April 9, 2020, accessed April 14, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Frauke Steffens: New press spokeswoman: Trump lets answer again. In: faz.net. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH, May 2, 2020, accessed on May 2, 2020 .
  4. ↑ CNN contributor joins Trump's 'real news' show . In: BBC News . August 7, 2017 ( bbc.com [accessed August 9, 2017]).
  5. ^ Charles Bethea: Van Jones and Kayleigh McEnany Try to Fight the Right Way . In: The New Yorker . October 19, 2016, ISSN  0028-792X ( newyorker.com [accessed November 7, 2017]).
  6. ↑ One of Trump's most vocal supporters left CNN to make a pro-Trump news video that's been compared to state TV. In: Business Insider. Business Insider, August 7, 2017, accessed May 28, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Eddie Scarry: Kayleigh McEnany joins Republican National Committee as spokesperson . In: The Washington Examiner , August 7, 2017. 
  8. ↑ Trump 2020 campaign announces communication team. In: AP News. The Associated Press, February 19, 2019, accessed May 2, 2020 .
  9. ^ Johanna Bruckner, New York: Kayleigh McEnany - from CNN on Trump's "Real News" . In: sueddeutsche.de . August 8, 2017, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed August 9, 2017]).
  10. ↑ David Smith: Stephanie Grisham out as Trump press secretary after never briefinCOVID-19g press (en-GB) . In: The Guardian , April 7, 2020. 
  11. ↑ Tommy Christopher: REMINDER: Trump Spox Told Fox Biz Anchor 'We Will Not See Diseases Like Coronavirus Come Here' Just WEEKS Ago . April 4, 2020. Accessed April 7, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME McEnany, Kayleigh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer, commentator and presenter
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Tampa , Florida