Trump 2020 campaign adviser Kayleigh McEnany discusses Big Tech’s influence on presidential election, weighs in on Georgia Senate runoffs on ‘Fox & Friends.’
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Ainsley, thank you. Rich
lets bring in Kayleigh Mcenany
Trump, two thousand and twenty campaign advisor
good morning to you Kayleigh.
So you hear the story about
Swalwell New York Times is not
covering that
very limited coverage on social
media, about Hunter Biden.
We know conservatives, including
the president are censored, or
they put captions underneath
videos that he posts.
They are trying to control the
narrative when we log on to
Twitter or our Facebook
accounts, and so Fox NEWS looked
into it.
Who these executives are Donat
Ing money to so many of
them donated money to Joe Biden
S campaign. We have a long
list of them when it comes to
the Trump campaign. Zero twitter
executives, donated to his
campaign and two Facebook
executives donated less than three hundred
to trumps campaign. But look at
this long list Kayleigh.
These are all of the executives
with these two social media
entities that donated to Biden
whats your reaction,
its absolutely amazing,
I mean big tech- was the Joe
Biden campaign.
Now, big tech is the Joe Biden
transition when you look at who
he has on his transition team, in
addition to those donations that
youre showing he has an Amazon
executive, he has a former
facebook director, a former
Facebook Board member, a former
facebook lobbyist, Joe Bidens
campaign, his transition and
likely his white House will be
filled with big tech.
They rigged this election
against the president by
censoring the New York Post.
Censoring me who was just
giving that story essentially
and many others, and they rooted
out information that would have
turned fourteen percent of Joe Biden voters
away from his campaign and a
future presidency
Brian. I know the president has
not conceded
it looks like Mitch. Mcconnell
did yesterday.
We saw him on the floor.
He acknowledged that Joe Biden
in his mind won the election.
He called Kevin Mccarthy Kevin
Mccarthy did not want to
acknowledge it.
I asked Tom Cotton where he
stood.
Listen.
The electoral college voted
on Monday and they voted, but the
president has also legal
challenges and it should be
decided based on the law and
evidence
he hasnt sticked to the
Department of Justice and the
FBI on Joe Bidens campaign.
The way Barack Obama and Joe
Biden did
he hasnt fabricated evidence to
get wire taps on Joe Bidens
campaign staff.
He hasnt started calling for
the impeachment before Joe
Biden even might take the oath
of office
thats what the Democrats did
after two thousand and sixteen, so you can spare me
the crocodile tears from all
these democrats about breaking
norms,
theyre the ones breaking norms
four years ago,
Brian right. So what was the
presidents reaction when
Mitch Mcconnell called him and
does he believe the fights over
yeah? I couldnt have said
that better myself, what senator
cotton just said right there.
This president, you know hes
made clear his thoughts about
leader, Mcconnell on Twitter and
our founders set in place. A
constitution that had a process
for becoming president and one
step in that process is the
electors. Voting
one step in that process is
certifying the election at the
county level and state level, and
another step in that process is
Congress confirming the results
ultimately ending on January twenty
they put in place certain face
for when you have an election
like this with mass mail out
voting, and today I would just
note that youre going to hear a
hearing before Senator Johnsons
Committee from attorneys in
Nevada, one in Wisconsin thats,
going to walk through that this
was a never before tried
system
mass mail in voting rip away.
The signature match requirements
among other safeguards, and you
ended up with an election that
half of the country does not
have faith in
Steve. You know Kayleigh, I know
youve had legal challenges all
over the country and the
campaign has not been
successful, but when you do look
at the impact that social media
had what you and Ainsley were
talking about a little while ago,
I mean it really was
rigged against Donald Trump
theres. No doubt about it. When
you look at the evidence and you
look at the donors, I mean
anybody who disputes that its
laughable.
I no one of the things that the
president has talked about
is repealing section two hundred and thirty, which
protects them
even though theyre private
companies they get this
protection, this
liability protection.
That was what he wanted to see
in the defense bill.
It sounds like- and I know you
said this yesterday, when you
had your White House press
secretary had on you said he
was going to veto. That
is it because theres, no two hundred and thirty,
is it because of the renaming of
the bases?
Is it because of the pullout?
What is it
well its a number of things,
as I noted in addition to the
section two hundred and thirty being absent, whereby
the way section two hundred and thirty allows
twitter to not flag chinese
disinformation like saying that
in the province that theres no
religious discrimination, when we
know the wegers had been
tortured in that province, they
can say that the China virus
didnt originate in Wuhan and
its not flagged
its that, but its also, the
fact that there are certain
provisions in there that dont
allow troop drawdowns in
Afghanistan and South Korea,
among other places across the
globe, its very much not in
line with the presidents
priorities, as he noted so its
more than just two hundred and thirty
its a confluence of different
factors
Steve. So he definitely is going
to veto it.
Yes, he is
Steve. Okay,
Ainsley, so Joe Biden went to
Georgia.
You know those two races are so
important for both sides.
He was down there campaigning
and praising Stacey Abrams
called her a hero, and he was
down there to help John Ossoff,
but he got his name wrong.
Listen to this.
What about the one and only
Stacey, Abrams
applause-
horns: honking
Stacey! If we had ten of you,
we could rule the whole world.
God love you!
Is there anyone whose done more
to make sure the voice of every
George an is heard?
I dont think so: Stacey Abrams
youre a hero,
youre, the one that got this
going
applause,
and we all thank you
and, of course, honk for your
next United States. Senator John
Orsoff
Ainsley whats your reaction to
that Kayleigh and is the
president going to go back
to Georgia to help
you know ill leave that to
the president to announce on his
plans with regard to that
hes been there once, but its
incredible to hear Joe Biden
talk about Stacey Abrams, who
single handedly rigged the
Georgia election when she
took away the safeguards
Stacey Abrams, he said. If we
had ten of Stacey Abrams, we could
rule the world thats. What Joe
Biden says.
I bet you could, because what
Stacey Abrams did? Is she rolled
over the governor and Secretary
of State, who did not do the due
diligence for their state got
rid of meaningful signature
match? If you had a mass flow of
ballots, where you used to have a
six percent rejection rate because
signatures didnt match this
time, there was a zero point, three percent
rejection rate, despite a mass
flood of ballots. So I bet Joe
Biden wishes. He had ten Stacey
Abrams. I guess he could rule
the world at that point,
its just amazing how he could
say that so directly and not
hide the ambitions, not hide the
design and the plan from the
american voters.
Brian Kayleigh, I watched you
almost every night with Shawn.
I saw your press conference
yesterday,
youre more prepared to do that,
and you know theyre not going
to the press seems to have their
own agenda and you also have
these items but im wondering
where Bill Stepian is where
Jared Kushner is.
They were the ones running the
campaign.
It seems like you got to be the
press secretary and you got
to talk about the fighting on
the individual battles.
Do you need some help?
No im in good shape.
I clearly separate my two roles
and I love and my free time
helping out with the campaign
bill. Stepian is still hard at
work and he put out statements
recently. Jared Kushner too
cant speak highly enough of him,
but he does have two lanes in
addition to helping out the
campaign in his free time,
and he also has Middle EAST
peace with four of those deals.
Four more than the previous
President
Ainsley. You reminded the press
yesterday. Why arent you cover
ing that
thats exactly right,
historic,
Steve and Kayleigh. Today you
are appearing as campaign spokes
person, yet I think it was
last night the campaign sent out
a fundraising e mail from the
campaign asking. Should
President Trump run in twenty twenty four.
What was that about?
You know. I think that they
are just putting out that
thought.
They are still focused
Steve. You are the campaign
spokesperson.
Yes, yes, he is still
focused on two thousand and twenty, but two thousand and twenty four look
hes the leader of this movement,
no matter what happens in two thousand and twenty
two thousand and twenty four there is for his taking
his base, is strong
theyre not going away the
forgotten. Men and women are
forgotten no longer because they
had four years of President
Trump, hopefully four more, but
two thousand and twenty four its there. If President
Trump would like it
Steve, let me just interrupt
add one thing:
weve also heard stories that
the president may not show up at
the inauguration and its a
different kind of an
inauguration going to be
largely virtual anyway.
Is the president going to fly
down to Florida. Perhaps that
same day and perhaps have a
rally
same day.
You know Steve, that is the
million dollar question.
Ive been asked it a lot.
I will leave that to the
president.
Steve give us a hint
just tell us a little bit of a
hint
right now. Hes still got
his litigation playing out as we
approach January twenty so ill
leave it to him
well, see
weve got a lot to get through
before we get to January twenty
Ainsley one thing at a time: I
guess
what about an election integrity?
A lot of people are looking to
the president to make sure that
voters who went to the polls to
vote for him or whoever they
vote for that they know their
voices were heard that
everything was legal. Weve got
this big election in Georgia
coming up in January and
another presidential election in
four years,
yeah Ainsley its a great
question.
You know this, president, for ten
months prior to November three,
two thousand and twenty has been talking about
mail in voting- has been talking
about Jimmy Carter, saying it is
the most subject to fraud way of
voting, and I was with him when
his attorneys came before him
ten months ago and said. Mr
President, look at what
theyre doing state by state
were going to try to fight this
in court to make sure that
the legislature determines the
time manner and place of an
election as the constitution
says, and state by state. You go
into the court and they said
your claim isnt right,
then you go into court after and
they say your claim came too
late,
so weve really got to figure
out what happened with these
courts. With these regulations
with the mail in voting because
its not just the integrity of
the election but of two thousand and twenty two two thousand and twenty four
and beyond, because what
happened this time can never
happen again,
Brian right and finally, if the
president does in his legal
challenges, all arent successful,
does he go to New
York? Or does he go to Florida?
He is now a Florida resident
ill leave it to him, but he
became a Florida resident very
proud to have him in the
sunshine state, but leave it
to him in the first lady to
announce exactly what theyll be
doing, but right now he is
fighting in court and he will
continue those legal challenges
and tune in today, at ten, a dot m for
that Senate. Hearing that
will be very eye opening
Steve. I saw the Florida
governor RON. Desantis was at an
event in West Palm Beach
yesterday in front of
hospitality workers, and he said,
despite whats, going on in other
states, im not going to
shutdown the restaurants, which
was exactly what the waiters and
waitresses and the cooks wanted
to hear from the chief executive
there
regarding covid right now here
in the United States. How does
the White House feel the rollout,
which is a couple
of days old, has gone,
look ill, leave it to the
White House and speaking to my
campaign capacity now, but you
know what I will say is
governor. Desantis is one of the
best governors in the nation.
He has made Florida a free state
where you can open your
restaurant, where the citizens
have self responsibility where
we all know how to protect
ourselves from covid, but
shutting down. Businesses is not
the way to go.
We have a vaccine thats being
rolled out and it really is
impressive feet for this
president.
We can protect ourselves from
Covid, but we can also have a
United States constitution where
we dont have Governor Cuomo,
shutting down places of worship,
Governor Newsom, shutting down. Eighty five
of California, as several
states, go to orwellian way of
lockdown
Ainsley Kayleigh, one of my best
friends. She owns three
restaurants in Florida,
shes opening up Un Fourth, one
in January,
stark difference from the folks
out in California begging just
to keep their one restaurant or
their two restaurants open,
because they are all closed down.
That says a lot about the state
of Florida and why a lot of
people are moving down there for
tax purposes as well.
What does the president say
about the stimulus money because
Steve just interviewed a guy
that owns the oldest restaurant
here in Manhattan and he doesnt
have any ppp money
that ran out in August
yeah. The people depend on
it
look. This is an amazing
program that the President put
in place to get money to small
businesses, and you have radical
liberal Democrats like Nancy
Pelosi, who literally said
literally, said im, okay with
stimulus checks. Now because, in
her words, we have a new
president coming
blatantly saying it was politics
that made her deny the money to
the american people,
theres no place for that in
Washington,
theres no place for folks, like
John Ossoff down in Georgia, who
is basically said the exact same
thing.
We need politicians who put the
people first put small
businesses first, like the PPP
funding, so people like
your friends Ainsley, can
operate their small businesses
as we face this global pandemic
Ainsley. She said minimum wage
if thats increased to fifteen dollars an
hour, itll change everything
she cant afford to pay everyone
that much
yeah its a confluence of
liberal policies. That,
unfortunately, should Joe Biden
become President, are on the
horizon and will bankrupt
small businesses and change the
future of our country, as
President Trump, of course
brought us the hottest economy
in modern history when he came
into office.
Brian of course, in a half hour,
well have Kayleigh on to talk
as press secretary in the same
outfit,
quick, costume change, Kayleigh.
Transcript generated on 2020-12-17.