Kayleigh McEnany says ‘God had planned for me’ to be Trump’s White House press secretary

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White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany says it was “God’s plan” for her to work for Donald Trump.

Ms McEnany credited her faith for getting her the job as the one-term president’s top spokesperson in an interview on Fox News.

“God had a clear and definite plan for my life, and he put me on this journey in media and politics for a reason,” said Ms McEnany.

“I knew that God put me in this position, at this moment in time, for a reason,”

“I recall both a former Democrat colleague at CNN as well as my Dad telling me you come into your position ‘for such a time as this’– words from the book of Esther, a book that my hometown church ironically did a series on during my time here at the White House.

“I tell you this to emphasise I approached this position with a sense of responsibility to live up to the task God had planned for me.”

“You will have struggles, hardship and seemingly insurmountable challenges.”

Ms McEnany, who used to work for Fox News, also took the opportunity to blast journalists for doing their jobs.

“Some journalists, not all, are driven so much by scorn for the president, to the point of really interfering with, what I believe, their duties are, which is to convey information given to them by the administration to the American people,” she said.