Kayleigh McEnany Shows the Trump White House Does Not Feel Accountable to the Public at All
The most basic principle by which the current administration operates is that they have no obligations of any kind to the public they purportedly serve. They reject the notion that because their power is derived, nominally, from the will of the people, that they owe those same Americans an explanation when the administration does things in the name of the United States of America. They reject the notion they should be held accountable for what they say and do as officials in a representative government, whether by protesters in the street or by the free press in the White House Briefing Room. This is not the first administration to operate this way, but it's certainly the most blatant.
That is what's beneath all the lying and deceit, including about the deadly pandemic. It's why they're willing to manipulate scientific reports and intelligence, downplaying real threats and inflating others. It's why they stonewall Congress when it exercises its oversight powers as outlined in the Constitution, and why inspectors general are forced out along with anyone else who might serve as an independent voice for the public interest. They're not interested in the public interest.
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany was determined to spell this out properly in a briefing Wednesday, as the topic of the president's Definitely Real Healthcare Plan came up. Once upon a time in July, the president promised to produce a plan with which he'd replace Obamacare—which would be destroyed by a lawsuit the administration is currently signed onto—in two weeks. Like pretty much all things the president promises will appear two weeks from now, it never happened and the political press basically forgot about it. When Ellesia Blaque asked him about it at the ABC town hall last night, he still didn't have a plan. This is because, again, the president does not give a shit about the public or their access to healthcare. This is also why he cooks up insane lies about how it's really Joe Biden who wants to nix protections for preexisting conditions. The consequences for actual American human beings are not part of his calculus.
When CNN's Kaitlan Collins asked who was drafting up this Definitely Real Healthcare Plan, considering a number of Trump administration health officials have denied any knowledge of this effort, here was the response from the White House press secretary.
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