NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Former Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany was “horrified” by the riot at the Capitol building on Jan. 6, as she and others in the administration expected the day to be “peaceful,” she said in her first interview since she left the White House.
In an interview with Fox News host Harris Faulkner set to air on Tuesday, McEnany said “everyone was expecting peace” at the rally that took place in Washington, D.C. before former President Donald Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol.
“We’d been to hundreds of rallies. I’ve probably been to hundreds at this point, certainly many dozens, and they were nothing but peaceful events, and we expected that day to be the same,” she said. “And then, as those events transpired, it was disbelief, shock, somber, sad, horrified by the violence.”
“And it was a very hard, difficult day in the White House, there is no doubt,” she added. “It was a, I should say, widespread feeling, synonymous feeling, completely a feeling that everyone felt, that just, completely, condemning the actions of that day, horrified and very somber.”
The U.S. Senate acquitted Trump last month after he was impeached on charges that he incited the insurrection at the Capitol.
Five people died in the riot, including Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick.