The White House wants to expand its rapid response team tasked with monitoring and attacking critics of the president’s efforts to quell the coronavirus outbreak.
Kayleigh McEnany was brought on as White House press secretary to add a counterpunch, campaign-style energy to President Donald Trump’s communications team.
She’s starting to show how that will be done.
On Wednesday, McEnany began blasting tweets from the official White House press secretary account, hitting Speaker Nancy Pelosi in at least five tweets. On Thursday, she made her first “Fox & Friends” appearance in her new role, reiterating her Pelosi attacks and chiding the media. And she’s working in parallel with the Trump campaign as both the White House and campaign expand their communications and rapid response teams tasked with monitoring and attacking any critics of the president’s efforts to quell the coronavirus outbreak. Continue reading.