"During a press conference yesterday White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnay pulled a dirty trick on the White House press corps.
She used a USA Today fact check to swat away a nasty reporter who tried to get her with a “gotcha question.”
The reporter asked “I want to ask you about the FDA guidance on the Abbott tests. But firstly, you’ve talked about all of this preparation that the Trump administration did, but then how come on January 2020, the stockpile was as low as it was on supplies like face masks, like N95s?”
McEnany, as usual was tactful yet brutal “Yeah, it’s a really good question. It’s a really important question.
Perhaps I should redirect your question to President Obama who left the stockpile empty.
And there was a USA Today fact check of that.”
“He left the cupboards bare, as the president noted, and USA Today said there’s no indication that the Obama administration took significant steps to replenish the supply of N95 masks in the Strategic National Stockpile after it was depleted from repeated crises, ” McEnay added. “So at the H1N1, it was full.
“He left the cupboards bare, as the president noted, and USA Today said there’s no indication that the Obama administration took significant steps to replenish the supply of N95 masks in the Strategic National Stockpile after it was depleted from repeated crises, ” McEnay added. “So at the H1N1, it was full.
At the end of H1N1, it was empty and President Obama left it empty and took President Trump to refill it.”
"...The reporter then thought she had McEnany “Wait, your National Defense Biodefense Strategy came out in September 2018 and the President has been now in office for over three years at this point.”
McEnany handled it truthfully and brilliantly...
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