Kayleigh McEnany gave a press conference today to the mostly left-leaning press core full of ravenous Pirana like reporters waiting with gotcha questions, as some might see it. One reporter very subtly tried to imply that President Trump’s recent rose garden speech in which the left-wing pundits have labeled too political or too much like a Trump rally was improper.
Kayleigh took it one step further and mentioned the Hatch Act, even though the reporter didn’t. It was as though she believed he was implying President Trump may have violated it. Of course, this isn’t the first time the enemies of the President of the United States has tried this very weak strategy.
In 2019 the Washington Post accused President Trump of violating it here, and again in 2019 Fortune accused Kellyanne Conway of the same, here. In the clip below Kayleigh says that the President and Vice President are not even subject to the Hatch Act, making the likely implication by the reporter invalid if her claims are correct. Watch the back and forth below:
.@PressSec is asked about Pres. Trump's speech in the Rose Garden:
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) July 16, 2020
"It's well established that the President and the Vice President are not subject to the Hatch Act… You're real problem was the fact that the president gave a really good, powerful speech from the Rose Garden" pic.twitter.com/M0vew0Do33
Politico recently wrote a piece slamming Trump’s recent Rose Garden speech saying in part:
There aren’t any MAGA hats or Trump flags in the audience when President Donald Trump speaks from the White House, but he’s been treating it that way.
With large political rallies tough to pull off with the coronavirus gripping the country, the president has been using the backdrop of the White House to make his election pitch. It occurred most noticeably on Tuesday, when the president convened reporters for a press conference purportedly about punishing China, only to spend an hour repeatedly bashing presumptive 2020 rival Joe Biden’s policies in a stream-of-consciousness, rally-style speech. But it’s a tactic that goes back months, to the beginning of the coronavirus lockdowns, when the president spoke from the White House briefing room podium almost every night, mixing defenses of his administration’s work combating the pandemic with broadsides against Biden.
Watch President Trump’s recent Rose Garden speech for yourself below and be the judge:
