Kayleigh McEnany claims White House wants 'peaceful transition' -- after inciting riots for months

Mod: One of the first dishonest things Kayleigh McEnany said upon her becoming Trump's presser is that she would never lie. She's been doing just that ever since.

Kayleigh McEnany claims White House wants 'peaceful transition' -- after inciting riots for months (Raw Storylink): Ever since the election, President Donald Trump, his supporters, and Republican officials have collectively attempted to overthrow the 2020 election. There has been over 60 lawsuits, a slew of press conference from the president's lawyers and legal allies and rallies proclaiming that the election was "stolen" from his supporters and that they should fight for their rights.

At the Trump rally Wednesday, Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani encouraged a "trial by combat."Donald Trump Jr., after the election, called for "total war."Trump supporters called for the rally-goers to "burn down DC." And when President Donald Trump took the stage Wednesday, he told the crowd that they were going to march to the Capitol and that he would march along with them.

Now the White House is in damage control. Taking to the podium on Thursday, press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said that the White House would have a peaceful transition of power and denounced the violence that the president incited the previous day.

"Now is the time to come together and reject the violence that we've seen," she said. It is the first time anyone in the White House has called for people to "come together" since the election in November. She refused to take any questions. It is unclear if McEnany was speaking for the president, as she cited the White House staff supported the peaceful transition of power, not Trump specifically.

The White House press pool reporter for Thursday is Yahoo's Brittany Shepherd. Her report of the press conference was, "Kayleigh exited at 5:19 pm the briefing room after delivering a statement on the violence at the Capitol yesterday. She took no questions, despite our yells-- to be clear, your pooler does not consider what just happened a 'briefing.'"

'Bunker' Trump mocked as a 'coward' for fleeing to Camp David amid talk of 25th Amendment (Raw Storylink): Less than 24 hours after armed insurrectionists seized the U.S. Capitol at the president's urging, Donald Trump fled the city to Camp David.

The weekend vacation comes amid reports that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called Vice President Mike Pence to request a move to invoke the 25th Amendment, which removes the president from office if there is a belief he cannot continue his role.

Several Trump staffers have resigned as has Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao effective Jan. 11.

Trump has been banned from his social media accounts after inciting violence with tweets and videos Wednesday. So, it's unclear how the president will be able to direct his supporters to continue their assault on Washington. It prompted many online to mock Trump for his weakness and fear fleeing the city instead of standing up to fight against his party, administration and Democrats.

Trump aides reportedly conclude he is 'mentally unreachable'(The Week/Yahoo link): President Trump reportedly spent much of Wednesday "cocooned" at the White House as his supporters stormed the Capitol, and his aides say he has become "mentally unreachable."

While a pro-Trump mob breached the Capitol building on Wednesday, disrupting Congress' session to certify President-elect Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 election and leaving four people dead, Trump was "cocooned at the White House and listening only to a small coterie of loyal aides," all while resisting calls from advisers to condemn the rioters, The Washington Post reports.

"He kept saying: 'The vast majority of them are peaceful,'" an administration official told the Post. "'What about the riots this summer? What about the other side? No one cared when they were rioting. My people are peaceful. My people aren't thugs.' He didn't want to condemn his people."

Now, Axios reports that some of Trump's "stalwart aides and confidants" have "given up trying to communicate with him" altogether, "considering him mentally unreachable."

Although Trump did ultimately release a video on Twitter in which he called on those rioting in the Capitol to go home, the video also again included his false claims that the election was stolen. According to the Post, aides had asked Trump not to include these false claims in the statement, but he went off script and threw them in anyway. Ultimately, some aides believe Trump"did irreparable damage to his presidency and legacy," the Post writes, with an administration official saying, "He was a total monster today."

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