Tag Archives: Katrina Pierson

Mediaite reports: On Monday evening, Pierson appeared on Fox News and when Ed Henry challenged Pierson on Omarosa’s account that she had admitted the N-word tape existed, she said that this account “was absolutely not true.” Cut to Tuesday morning and Omarosa shared a recording of a conversation about the alleged “n-word” tape in which Pierson appears to confirm it’s …

CBS News reports: President Trump says former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault-Newman lied when she called him a racist who has said the N-word on tape. The president tweeted Monday night, “I don’t have that word in my vocabulary and never have. She made it up.” But a new recording, obtained by CBS News overnight, seems to back up Omarosa’s …

Trump cultist infighting will always be hilarious: Former Trump campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson is going on the offensive against reality TV show star and former Trump administration official Omarosa Manigault Newman, whose new tell-all book hits shelves Tuesday. Pierson slammed the former White House aide for her “disloyal” behavior in a series of tweets Friday evening, claiming that Manigault Newman’s …

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump’s decision to hire his 2016 campaign’s digital strategist, Brad Parscale, to run his re-election bid is a strategic bet that insularity and online virality can, once more, win him four years in the White House. Parscale is not just a holdover from Trump’s first run. He is the rare adviser whose standing hasn’t been …

Former Trump campaign spokesperson and convicted shoplifter Katrina Pierson has (for the moment, at least) reclaimed her title as the nation’s most idiotic Republican after literally calling slavery “good history” during an off-the-rails segment on Fox News today. The Daily Beast reports: It all started with a debate over House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s push to remove Confederate monuments from …

Raw Story reports: Responding to news that a Super PAC sponsored by supporters of President Donald Trump is running ads against Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) for opposing Trumpcare, Fox News host Neal Cavuto got into a squabble with Trump booster Katrina Pierson. It was when Pierson accused Heller of “governing as a Democrat” that Cavuto really dug in. “He’s looking …

The Hill reports: The pro-Trump group “America First Policies” is preparing a massive seven-figure ad buy against Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV), just hours after the GOP senator announced Friday that he would not support the Senate’s bill to repeal and replace ObamaCare. The group was formed by six former members of Trump and Pence’s staffs, including former spokeswoman Katrina Pierson …

The Washingtonian did some digging into why former Trump campaign spox and compulsive liar Katrina Pierson did not land a White House position and instead now works for a pro-Trump outfit. They report: So what happened? Pierson says she was offered the role of deputy press secretary. She accepted it, she says. But then she backed out. “It was funny …

She’s baaaaaaack. McClatchy reports: Katrina Pierson’s combative, made-for-TV personality made her a key surrogate for Donald Trump on the campaign trail, but she won’t be a part of Trump’s White House. Instead, the North Texas Tea Party advocate will run communications for America First Policies, a pro-Trump non-profit that will “support key initiatives and policies of the White House.” The …

Mediaite reports: Former executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus and CNN contributor Angela Rye got INTO it with Trump spox Katrina Pierson this morning, as the latter full on accused Rye of driving the CBC “into the ground.” What followed was a volley of back and forth accusations about truth distortion and outright lying. Pierson, arguably the most visible …

According to Pierson, the woman’s claim that Trump moved the armrest to grope her couldn’t have happened because seats in first class have fixed armrests. Except, as you’ll see, back then they did not. Via Mediaite: The Atlantic‘s Peter Beinart broke into uncontrollable laughter upon hearing Donald Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson go into a convoluted explanation on CNN about how …

So this just happened: CNN host Carol Costello seemed to have had enough of Donald Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson, cutting an interview short on Tuesday when Costello saw the interview was “going nowhere.” Pierson was trying to pivot the conversation with Costello and Angela Rye, former executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus, to Hillary Clinton’s record on Syria and …

You’ll enjoy this. Esquire recaps: “If you think you hate the establishment now,” Bill Maher cautioned viewers Friday night, “Wait until [Donald Trump] wins and the Trump surrogates—that basket of inexplicables he sends out every day to speak for him—become the establishment.” Maher then launched into an epic evisceration of people like Omarosa Manigault, Chris Christie, and Rudy Giuliani. Why …

Brian Tashman reports at Right Wing Watch: Trump campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson took a page from her boss and touted Trump’s performance in post-debate online polls that have no scientific accuracy whatsoever. After conservative talk show host Joe Pags told Pierson that “news organization polling” is tilted against Trump because media outlets “have some sort of vested interested in getting …

Via Mediaite: A segment on The Kelly File went a little off the rails tonight when Megyn Kelly confronted Donald Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson over whether he’s still a birther. In a new interview tonight, Trump refused to say whether he still holds that insane view about President Obama‘s birth, hinting he would do so “at the right time.” Kelly …

BOOM. Via Mediaite: CNN’s Jake Tapper shut down Trump campaign spokesperson Katrina Pierson when she attempted to argue that “Islamophobia” was a word liberals hurled at people who did not want to live next to ISIS. Tapper asked Pierson if the Trump campaign was at all concerned by the glut of support continuing to pour in from former KKK leader …

Via Mediaite: When asked about an apparent flip-flop on illegal immigration Tuesday morning, Donald Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson responded that the Republican presidential candidate had always billed himself as a negotiator. New Day‘s Alisyn Camerota challenged Pierson by playing two audio clips of Trump. In the first clip, he promised that illegal aliens could only gain legal status by leaving …

Via Raw Story: Trump has, at least verbally, reversed his position from just over a year ago, when he told NBC’s Chuck Todd that undocumented immigrants and their children “have to go.” Now the Republican presidential nominee is trying to draw a murky distinction between “good” immigrants and “bad ones” — although his hapless spokeswoman Katrina Pierson insists Trump’s not …

And the entire CNN panel laughed in her face. Via The Hill: Donald Trump’s spokeswoman on Thursday defended the GOP nominee over criticism about his immigration policies. “He hasn’t changed his position on immigration. He’s changed the words that he is saying,” Katrina Pierson said on CNN. “What he has always said from the beginning is that he does not …

The Hill reports: A top spokesperson for Donald Trump claimed Thursday that Hillary Clinton has brain damage that impairs her ability to communicate. Speaking on MSNBC, Katrina Pierson alleged that Clinton has a disorder called dysphasia, a condition brought on by brain trauma that erodes a person’s ability to speak or comprehend language. “What’s new are the other reports or …