Tag: Kellyanne Conway
Conway: World leaders Are ‘Jealous’ of Trump
“What was it really about? It was about the fact that President Trump commands a room, and he does. And maybe that makes a couple of people jealous.”
— Kellyanne Conway told Fox & Friends that the world leaders caught on video laughing about President Trump are just jealous. CNN reports Trump was “fuming” over the video.
Schmidt: Right-Wing Media Mouthpieces Have ‘Blood on Their Hands’
“The propaganda industry that Kellyanne Conway commands, with the vile president that she serves, abetted by Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh and Breitbart and NewsBusters and Judicial Watch and all the rest of them have blood on their hands for the incitements that they have made that have triggered and radicalized these crazy people.”
— Former GOP strategist Steve Schmidt, on MSNBC.
Conway Buys $7.8 Million Home in D.C.
$7.8 million
Kellyanne Conway “is the latest Trump administration official to skew the Washington, DC’s average single-family home price with her purchase of a Northwest mansion,” the Washington Business Journal reports. “Via an LLC, Conway, the first woman to manage a successful presidential campaign, and her husband, attorney George Conway, paid $7.785 million for the 15,000-square-foot home in Massachusetts Avenue Heights. The deal closed May 17, though the deed wasn’t recorded until this week.” Conway told Mansion Global: “I’m the poorest kid on the block.”
Two-Thirds Think Trump Is His Own Worst Spokesman
61% to 33%
A new Monmouth University poll finds that President Trump may not be well-served by his primary spokespeople, but he is probably his own worst mouthpiece. “More Americans say that Donald Trump, press secretary Sean Spicer, and counselor Kellyanne Conway tend to hurt rather than help the administration’s cause when they step in front of the media. Reviews are mixed for deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Vice President Mike Pence is the only official tested in the poll who has a net positive impact when he speaks on behalf of the administration.” Key finding: 61% of Americans say Trump does more to hurt his own cause when he speaks on behalf of the administration. Just 33% say he does more to help his administration when he speaks publicly.
An Expert’s Analysis of On-Air Lying
“You can turn on the TV — more than you can read in the paper because I assume editors are still doing their jobs in most places — and people literally say things that just aren’t true.”
— Kellyanne Conway, quoted by Elle, as the audience at the Newseum burst into laughter.
There Are Eight Tricks Donald’s Spox Use to Lie to the Press
1. The He-Believes-It Shuffle
2. The Kellyanne Escape Asana
3. The Spicey Nitpick
4. Trumpal Infallibility
5. “George…”
6. I Know You Are, But What Am I?
7. Move Along. Nothing to See Here.
8. This Is Very Fluid
Conway Retweets White Nationalist
I don’t know who had access to my account … I denounce whoever it is. It will be immediately deleted. Everybody makes mistakes.
— Kellyanne Conway, quoted by BuzzFeed, after she retweeted a white nationalist on Twitter.
A Conway Getaway
The backlash to her Ivanka ad must have astonished her,
And now the Ethics Office says Trump should admonish her.
This Kellyanne Conway antic
Goes far beyond ethics,
But don’t hold your breath waiting for Trump to punish her.
Beyond Fact Checking: Why Trump’s Lies Are Beside the Point
If you have noted — and possibly pointed out to a Trump supporter — that his press secretary, Sean Spicer, was lying when he said Trump’s inauguration drew the broadest audience in history, period, then Trump has you right where he wants you. Bloomberg columnist Tyler Cowen explains why focusing on facts ignores what’s really going on, and the real reasons Trump’s staff is lying.
Cowen points out that some hardened leaders use loyalty tests that ask their followers to go against conscience. Spicer and Kellyanne Conway are passing their loyalty tests with flying colors.
Trump isn’t lying in hopes you’ll believe his version of things. The real reasons are much worse.
By requiring subordinates to speak untruths, a leader can undercut their independent standing…That makes those individuals grow more dependent on the leader and less likely to mount independent rebellions against the structure of command. Promoting such chains of lies is a classic tactic when a leader distrusts his subordinates…and it is part of the same worldview that leads Trump to rely so heavily on family members.
But there’s even more to it than that.
