The president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, The Washington Post, July 11, 2020, noted that press secretary Kayleigh McEnany spends a lot of time during briefings denying the obvious, contradicting President Donald Trump’s statements and refusing to address issues raised by the president’s tweets, in sum, serving the president’s political agenda. Writes Jonathan Karl, “The White House press secretary serves at the pleasure of a president but is also a public servant whose salary is paid by taxpayers. The job is to inform the public: to be an intermediary between the president and a press corps the public relies on for information.” He adds, “Denying reality and using the White House podium for purely political purposes is a violation of public trust.”
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