Reporters Ask Kayleigh McEnany About The National Stockpile, Her Responses Were Epic

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"I have to admit, of all of President Trump’s press secretaries, Kayleigh McEnany is my favorite. She’s regularly demonstrated her ability to handle the media’s gotcha questions and throw them right back in their faces.

"On Friday, she absolutely crushed it again when she was asked about the Strategic National Stockpile. Associated Press reporter Jill Colvin asked, “How come on January 2020, the stockpile was as low as it was on supplies like face masks and N95s?”

“ 'It’s a really important question,” replied McEnany. “Perhaps I should redirect your question to President Obama who left the stockpile empty.”

"McEnany went on to cite a USA Today fact-check that backed-up the claim that Obama left the stockpile empty.

"Colvin then pressed McEnany as to why, three years later, it wasn’t restocked.

“ 'We refilled that stockpile. We got the N-95 masks out — ventilators are another good example, not a single America died for lack of a ventilator — a hundred thousand ventilators in a hundred days, three-times what is produced in the average year. Three-times the amount of N95 respirators our health care industry uses,” she explained.

“ 'We have delivered,” she continued. “We have cleaned up the mess that was very clearly left by President Obama and we got that out.' ” . . .

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. . . "President Trump has received criticism for blaming Obama for various deficiencies in the coronavirus response, and here we have the media tracing one particular deficiency back to the Obama years, and yet they avoid directly linking it by name to his administration. Obama had six years to restore that stockpile and even make it bigger. But he didn’t. Yet, the media today wants you to believe it’s Trump’s fault." . . .