Former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany defended Rick Santorum after he was fired from CNN for making racist comments about Native Americans.
“Rick Santorum is a good person,” McEnany said on Fox News. “I worked with him. We crossed paths briefly. He was summarily dismissed by CNN, discarded conveniently after the election when they found no more use for him.”
McEnany worked at CNN as a conservative political commentator until 2017 when she left to join Trump TV and later became a spokesperson for the RNC before joining the White House as Donald Trump’s fourth press secretary.
McEnany accused CNN of targeting conservative commentators like Jeffrey Lord, who was fired from the network in 2017 after he tweeted the words “Sieg Heil!” at a prominent liberal activist.
She called Lord a “good person,” adding “I was on many panels with him. He’s discarded as soon as an election passes. But yet, Chris Cuomo was not discarded. Jeffrey Toobin not discarded.”
“It’s one standard if you’re a conservative, you’re a utility player, you’re used and immediately discarded. They’re just looking for a reason,” she added.
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