After getting mercilessly owned on CNN by anchor Briana Keilar, Trump campaign spokeswoman Mercedes Schlapp attempted to lick her wounds in a safe space with an RCP op-ed piece “setting the facts straight” or some bullshit. I didn’t actually read it – except for this part:
I have dealt with, and socialized with, mainstream journalists in Washington, D.C., for my entire career. Sometimes we agree, often we don’t. But I respect the work the best of them do, and the critical role a free press plays in society. But this episode at CNN, and the host’s continued online harangue, was beyond the pale. I was further disturbed to learn that Brianna Keilar’s husband is a ferocious opponent of the president, a former director of the National Security Council under President Obama, and a man who tweets, among other things, that Donald Trump makes him “throw up.”
This set Keilar off, appropriately.
In response to @mercedesschlapp’s @RealClearNews op-ed. Get your facts straight. And don’t mess with my family. pic.twitter.com/pMgIyfSEv0
— Brianna Keilar (@brikeilarcnn) August 6, 2020
Winner by unanimous decision: Keilar.