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Kayleigh McEnany Smacks Down Former Obama Official’s Debunked Claim About Trump

Updated: Commentary

On Thursday, former Trump White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany disputed former Obama State Department spokesperson Marie Harf’s claim that former President Donald Trump referred to veterans as “suckers” and “losers.” Trump stepped away from his bulletproof glass enclosure to assist a supporter who had a medical emergency during his Wednesday outdoor rally, according to Mediaite. Harf, speaking on “Outnumbered,” suggested that such moments of compassion are overshadowed by Trump’s controversial remarks about the military. However, McEnany countered that it is blatantly false to assert that Trump disrespected veterans.

“For every one of those compassionate moments, we have moments where President Trump calls military veterans who have died in the line of duty or gotten injured ‘suckers’ and ‘losers,’ where he says awful things about people who have died for their country in service of their country, where he says terrible things about women in politics, sexist, awful misogynist things,” Harf said. “So I agree that that was a nice moment. For those of us who’ve worked with Secret Service, every time the president does something that is not planned, it is nerve-racking for them, especially after what President Trump has been through.”

“But for every compassionate moment, there are 10 moments where he says terrible things about people, about Kamala Harris, about average Americans. He called Kamala Harris a very bad word I cannot repeat on this air,” she continued. “So I think we see the full picture of Donald Trump as a person. And I think American people, more importantly, see that full picture and we hear from voters that that language he uses on those less gracious moments really matters to them.”

In September 2020, The Atlantic reported, citing anonymous sources, that Trump had canceled a 2018 visit to a French cemetery where American troops are buried, allegedly calling them “suckers” and “losers.” However, the story’s credibility has been challenged, with former national security adviser John Bolton denying that Trump used these terms and stating that the former president’s absence from the cemetery was due to weather and security concerns. Trump himself has repeatedly denied the allegation.

McEnany did not hold back. “[Marie] mentioned the ‘suckers’ and ‘losers’ alleged comments … I have never, in my entire time working around Trump, ever heard him disparage a member of the military, a fallen person who died for this country, ever,” McEnany responded. “And, in fact, I worked on the response to that story and collected dozens of people in the administration who had been there since day one who said that never happened. So that’s reporting — not confirmed and unconfirmed. And I could say an outright lie based on my experience.”

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