MAGA Republican and Donald Trump loyalist Elise Stefanik lost her cool with a Fox News host on Sunday as she faced questions over the former president’s past comments about women.
Rep Stefanik appeared on Fox News Sunday where host Shannon Bream brought up a The New York Times article which quoted several of the lawmaker’s former friends, speaking about her transformation into a Trump loyalist.
Ms Bream read out a past 2015 quote from Ms Stefanik, which featured in the article, where she had called Mr Trump “insulting to women” and said he would hurt the Republican party’s image among half of the US population.
“The question is when, and more importantly, why, did you change your opinion about President Trump?” asked Ms Bream.
One of a few Republicans in leadership who did not make a public campaign for the position of speaker last year, Ms Stefanik was nevertheless caught up in the chaos of her party’s calamitous ouster of their own leader Kevin McCarthy.
She ended up nominating Jim Jordan for the speakership, only to see her conservative ally fall.
Her transformation from a Trump critic to a Trump loyalist is one that has been the subject of several articles in major newspapers such as the Times and is clearly a piece of political baggage she has struggled to shrug off.
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