Chris Wallace Hosts Roundtable Discussion With Donna Brazile in Effort to Discredit McEnany

While hosting a roundtable discussion with Donna Brazile, who was fired for sharing questions for CNN-sponsored candidate events with friends on Hillary Clinton’s campaign, Chris Wallace gave plenty of fodder to those on the left that White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany “doesn’t act like a public servant, she acts like she is what she used to be, which is a spokesperson for the Trump campaign.”

Daily Beast editor Justin Baragona shared a clip of the segment, applauding Wallace for blasting McEnany for questioning the religious beliefs of White House reporters.

Chris Wallace blasts Kayleigh McEnany for questioning the religious beliefs of White House reporters:

“I spent six years in the White House briefing room covering Ronald Reagan. I have to say, I never…I never saw a White House press secretary act like that.” pic.twitter.com/o9K1LxROUV

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) May 24, 2020

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“Donna, I spent six years in the White House Briefing Room covering Ronald Reagan. I have to say, I never, and, in the years since too, I never saw a White House press secretary act like that,” (Wallace) said in an obvious tee-up for Brazile.

Noting first that she knows McEnany well and respects her as a person, Brazile nonetheless criticized the White House spokeswoman’s “posture that she has taken into the job, I don’t think is the right posture.”

“I would hope that she could tone it down a bit,” Brazile continued. “I just thought that was inappropriate the way she went back assuming that many of the people sitting in that room did not care about houses of worship. We want to all return back to normal, whatever that means anymore…”

Wallace then took umbrage with McEnany for “lecturing” seasoned political reporters and providing them with a list of questions they should be asking regarding the disgraceful manner in which Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, was treated by the Obama administration — because most media outlets are essentially ignoring the scandal.

“I have to say, if Kayleigh McEnany had told Sam Donaldson and me what questions we should ask, that would not have gone well, Jonah,” Wallace the tough guy said as he kicked it over to Never Trumper Jonah Goldberg.

Wallace even then acted like Brazile took it to easy on McEnany, saying “It’s nice to see Donna so deferential to Kayleigh McEnany. I think is indefensible and grotesque.”

After speaking with Goldberg, Wallace then complains that while McEnany’s job is working on behalf of the administration, she’s “paid by taxpayers” and thus “are public officials” — another incredibly inappropriate observation given that the current press secretary is not the first ‘adversarial’ White House spokesperson to hold the position.

She “doesn’t act like a public servant, she acts like she is what she used to be, which is a spokesperson for the Trump campaign,” he said.

He then spoke last with Josh Holmes, former chief of staff for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who took up for McEnany and Wallace wasn’t having any of it, again referencing his time as a White House news correspondent, which apparently makes him an ultimate authority.

Wallace responded both he and Donaldson — a longtime White House correspondent for ABC News — “were pretty tough on the White House press secretaries and we never had our religious beliefs questioned or were lectured on what we should ask.”

It should be noted that both Donaldson and Wallace were adversarial towards a conservative administration — the Reagan White House — which lends proper context to his statement.

Brazile said on Fox News previously that she believes presumptive Democrat nomineee Joe Biden in regards to the Tara Reade sexual assault allegations. She said that she thought the Democrat party respects a woman’s right to be heard and had written the playbook.