January 4, 2023

Former White House Communications director under Trump testified to the Jan 6 Committee that Kayleigh McEnany was a liar and an opportunist who had a platform but refused to speak the truth after Trump lost the election.

CNN's Jake Tapper went over Alyssa Farah Griffin's testimony, reading portions of the transcript.

"Kayleigh McEnany is a liar and an opportunist," she said. "She knew we lost the election but made a calculation that she wanted to have a certain life post-Trump that required staying in his good graces and that was more important than telling the truth to the American public."

"Would you put a majority of your fellow White House staffers and officials in that category or was Kayleigh McEnany a stand out in that respect?" Tapper asked.

"It was hard to read that back, to hear it -- but it was the truth. Silence is one thing, people in the White House not speaking up against election lies, that's shameful," Griffin said.

She explained how many people in the know kept quiet to not make Trumpy angry.

“Kayleigh, others had massive platforms. They had massive public profiles that they could have used that day to hopefully try to stop the violence.” But in the months and years that followed to stop this just insidious lie that's consumed the Republican Party, that the 2020 election was stolen when, in fact and of course was not."

McEnany has kept silent about the election fraud lies she helped to justify by her silence, because if she hadn't, she would not be on the lie network, Fox News.

Creeps, one and all.

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