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A snapshot of the White House press secretary’s folder, Kayleigh McEnany, has revealed fascinating and somewhat disconcerting details of the inner workings of the White House press machine.
Mrs. McEnany, Donald Trump’s fourth press secretary during the presidency, is expected to answer a series of questions from the US media during White House briefings.
She is known for her quick and abrupt appearances at press conferences, often concisely and aggressively deflecting the challenges of members of the national press examining the administration and the president.
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On Thursday, Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst captured a series of intriguing photos from Ms. McEnany’s portfolio that apparently shed some light on every possible issue the White House is prepared to offer a rebuttal to.
The photographs show the wide variety of themes that Ms. McEnany has previously prepared for tab headline summaries such as “Absurd” to “China”.
Some of the vaguer themes in the portfolio include “Hate”, “Lies”, “Golf”, “Victories”, “Program” and “Early”.
Other more self-explanatory tabs relate to the ongoing pandemic such as “CDC”, “Cases”, “Covid” and “Reopen”.
Certain tabs point to individuals like “Fauci,” referring to the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who has recently suffered an increasingly strained relationship with the White House, and “Flynn,” probably referring to Micheal Flynn, Trump’s disgraced former national security adviser.
“Mary” apparently also refers to Mary Trump, the President’s niece who last week released a scathing book about the President and his family.
The “Goya” tab in the folder probably refers to the ongoing reaction the president is facing for his and his daughter Ivanka Trump, the recent publication of photos supporting the food brand after calls to boycott the company after CEO Robert Unanue publicly praised the president.
“Hatch” may also refer to the controversy surrounding the photos, as some reports have claimed that Trump and his daughter violated the Hatch Act by promoting Goya on social media.
In total, you could see over 40 individual topics in the folder, all tagged and easily accessible for any questions that can be sent to the secretary.
During Thursday’s briefing, Ms. McEnany received a series of questions covered in relevant folder tabs, including the president’s handling of the coronavirus, evidence, race relations and police brutality, and the “tensions” of the United States with China.
“This response has been extraordinary and historic,” the secretary said of the administration’s testing efforts and response to the pandemic.
The United States has confirmed more than 3.6 million cases of the new coronavirus and has seen more than 138,000 deaths as of Friday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
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