Republican National Committee spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany declared on Friday that special counsel Robert Mueller’s indictments of over a dozen Russian individuals clears Donald Trump’s name of any wrongdoing. Her claim was quickly shut down by Democratic operative Jehmu Greene.
Appearing on Fox News, McEnany said, “Today marks the day that the Democrats’ Russia collusion conspiracy theory unravels.”
McEnany’s argument was that because Russian election-meddling efforts included organizing for Bernie Sanders that means Trump is out of the picture and had nothing to do with it.
Greene, a former candidate for chair of the Democratic National Committee, responded saying:
“It’s not a hoax, it’s not a witch hunt, anyone who has used those terms — and I believe my fellow guest here, Kayleigh, has used those terms quite often,” she continued. “This is the Russian government spending an enormous amount of resources to interfere in our election.”
Greene continued by saying that hopefully Trump actually acknowledges that Russia meddled in our elections.
“First of all the president has said yes, the Russians have meddled in our election and it’s a very serious thing,” McEnany claimed. “Yes, he has said that. That is documented, that is accurate.”
Greene and McEnany got in a heated debate after the RNC spokeswoman accused Greene of “missing” the day Trump admitted the election-meddling happened and claiming that she was attempting to mislead Fox News viewers.
“If it’s working in this conversation, what do you think it did in the 2016 election?” she mused. “It worked. And that is the reality that is going to be hard to swallow.”
“I get it, Kayleigh,” Greene mocked. “I’m not feeling for you because I’m not putting party first.”
“Hashtag America first,” she said.
Take a look at the argument in the video clip below:
