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- In 2015, Kayleigh McEnany, President Donald Trump's newly-installed White House press secretary, called Trump a "racist" and said he made "derogatory" and "hateful" comments about Mexican immigrants, CNN reported.
- "Donald Trump has shown himself to be a showman, I don't think he is a serious candidate," McEnany said in television segments on CNN and Fox Business in 2015. "I think it is a sideshow."
- But McEnany's apparently strong distaste for Trump's politics and rhetoric didn't prevent her from quickly transforming into a fierce defender of his as he dominated the Republican primary.
- McEnany is one of several people in Trump's orbit who attacked him, called him an authoritarian, and said he was unfit for office before joining his ranks.
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Before Kayleigh McEnany, President Donald Trump's newly-installed White House press secretary, became one of Trump's most aggressive defenders, she thought he was "a progressive" who made "racist" comments about Mexican immigrants.
In television segments on CNN and Fox Business in 2015, newly unearthed by CNN, McEnany repeatedly made the case that Trump wasn't a Republican and that he intentionally used inflammatory rhetoric to rile up the right-wing base.
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