{"id":430291,"date":"2021-04-16T13:05:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T17:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=430291"},"modified":"2021-04-16T13:05:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T17:05:18","slug":"it-was-egregious-kayleigh-mcenany-rips-media-for-pushing-the-russian-bounties-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/it-was-egregious-kayleigh-mcenany-rips-media-for-pushing-the-russian-bounties-story\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It Was Egregious\u2019: Kayleigh McEnany Rips Media For Pushing The Russian Bounties Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fit-was-egregious-kayleigh-mcenany-rips-media-for-pushing-the-russian-bounties-story%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=430291&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"44.225013653741\">\n<p>Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany lashed out at media Friday for pushing the narrative that Russians had put bounties on the heads of American soldiers in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>McEnany noted on Fox News\u2019 \u201cOutnumbered\u201d that, despite the White House\u2019s contention at the time that the reports were unverified, she had fielded dozens of questions about the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/15\/russia-bounty-taliban-low-confidence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bounties<\/a> and why former President <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/15\/psaki-biden-russia-bounty-donald-trump-apology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donald Trump<\/a> had not taken action. <strong><a class=\"text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/15\/psaki-biden-russia-bounty-donald-trump-apology\/\">(RELATED: Psaki Offers No Apology For Biden\u2019s Attacks On Trump Over Discredited Russian Bounty Report)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was asked dozens and dozens of questions about the Russia bounties,\u201d McEnany said, adding that at the time, she had warned reporters that the information was not verified.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018There are dissenting opinions in the intelligence community, do not run with this narrative, it\u2019s just simply not true and not the case,&#8217;\u201d McEnany continued. \u201cBut not only did they run with it, it is remarkable, if you take a walk through memory lane at The New York Times convincing military families who had their loved ones killed in action that, in fact, Russia bounties were probably to blame and not only that but their Commander-in-Chief, President Donald Trump simply didn\u2019t care. It was a heinous allegation, they ran with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/12\/18\/kayleigh-mcenany-conservative-women-media-mary-margaret-olohan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">McEnany<\/a> went on to note that The New York Times was far from the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/15\/four-pinnochios-trump-russian-bounties\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">only offender<\/a> in that particular case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCNN dropped the word \u2018alleged\u2019 from their reporting, The Washington Post said they had verified the reporting and then went on to give President Trump four Pinocchios over it, it was amazing \u2026 it was so heinous at the heart of it that the commander in chief would not care about the United States military men and women in the line of battle, it was egregious, and I\u2019m glad that this day of accounting has come,\u201d McEnany concluded.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany lashed out at media Friday for pushing the narrative that Russians had put bounties on the heads of American soldiers in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276102,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}