CNN created Trump’s new press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany

Published April 7, 2020 3:46pm ET



Stephanie Grisham is out as White House press secretary, and in her place arrives Kayleigh McEnany, formerly press secretary for President Trump’s reelection campaign and, as I’m sure they’d like to forget, from CNN.

CNN plucked McEnany out of nowhere and invented her, all as a part of Jeff Zucker’s 2016 strategy to staff the network not with a diverse range of principled conservatives but with pro-Trump “characters in a drama.” As the New York Times Magazine wrote in 2017:

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