Tag Archives: Kellyanne Conway

The Daily Beast reports: Some of the Trump campaign’s most prominent names and supporters, including Trump’s campaign manager, digital director, and son, pushed tweets from professional trolls paid by the Russian government in the heat of the 2016 election campaign. The Twitter account @Ten_GOP, which called itself the “Unofficial Twitter account of Tennessee Republicans,” was operated from the Kremlin-backed “Russian …

The Washington Post reports: “Saturday Night Live” may have found its most uncharitable caricature of someone in President Trump’s orbit this weekend, featuring Kellyanne Conway as the scary clown from Stephen King’s recently revitalized film, “It.” The real butt of the joke, though, is cable news. In the highly cinematic, prerecorded sketch, CNN’s Anderson Cooper (played by Alex Moffat) stumbles …

The Hill reports: Sexual assault and harassment allegations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein highlight hypocrisy on the left, according to White House counselor Kellyanne Conway. “I hear a lot of people on their soap box, the high-horse cavalry, always talking about women’s rights, women in the workplace and women empowerment,” Conway said. “I’m in an environment where it’s practiced regularly. …

The Huffington Post reports: White House counselor Kellyanne Conway insisted Wednesday that while she doesn’t always like how the media covers her boss, she still has the utmost respect for the news business. “I’m a person in the West Wing who’s actually never uttered the words ‘fake news,’ ‘enemy of the people,’ ‘opposition party,’” Conway said at the Fortune Most …

Mediaite reports: Kellyanne Conway — counselor to President Donald Trump — has some counsel for Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN). Never tweet. Appearing Monday on Fox & Friends, Conway blasted the retiring Senator for his Sunday tweet in which he referred to the White House as an “adult day care center.” She, apparently, took issue with the Senator for delivering a …

The Hill reports: White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said Friday that the White House has become “increasingly optimistic” about the Republican effort to pass a last-minute measure to repeal and replace ObamaCare. “Obviously, those two senators came up with an innovative solution that would still preserve many of the most important components of repealing and replacing ObamaCare, doing away with …

The New York Times reports: Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, has elected to forgo protection by the Secret Service, according to a senior administration official, and another top White House official is losing hers. The agency ceased protecting Mr. Trump, who lives in New York City and is an executive at the Trump Organization, last week. Mr. Trump, …

Politico reports: White House adviser Kellyanne Conway was no fan of the overtly political tone at Sunday night’s Emmy awards, complaining Monday morning that the ceremony featured much of the “sameness” that she said is generally prevalent in Hollywood. “They got plucked and polished and waxed and some of them didn’t eat for two months — and all for what? …

The Hill reports: White House counselor Kellyanne Conway previewed President Trump’s upcoming, first appearance before the U.N. General Assembly this week, saying he would promote global leadership and sovereignty at the international body. “He will be promoting peace, he will be promoting prosperity, and the president will be promoting sovereignty and accountability,” Conway said on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends” …

Jezebel reports: In an interview with Time, Kellyanne Conway discussed the lack of leadership roles in the Republican party—can you believe it?—when she got her start in politics, describing working for the GOP as a woman in the 1990s as like “walking into the men’s locker room at the Elks Club holding a bachelor party.” She credits her “comfort level” …

“The president and first lady felt compelled to donate $1 million of their own money. They felt compelled to visit [Texas] twice, to really spend the time yesterday, engage people, look them in the eye. This is the Donald Trump that so many of us know and are privileged to work with and to know very close and personal. People …

The Washington Examiner reports: Kellyanne Conway didn’t take kindly to Chris Cuomo insistence on talking about climate change during an interview about Hurricane Harvey disaster relief on Wednesday night, prompting her to say the CNN host was playing “amateur climatologist.” Conway, who is counselor to President Trump, pushed back on Cuomo’s question, saying the focus should remain on helping “the …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway was interviewed by Pat Robertson on “The 700 Club” today, where she declared that President Trump’s most notable characteristic is his humility. Robertson kicked off the softball interview by asking Conway “what characteristic stands out in your mind” most about Trump, to which she replied that “it’s …

Fox News reports: White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway slammed former national intelligence director James Clapper on Thursday for what she called his “absurd analysis” on President Trump’s fitness for office. Clapper was one of numerous CNN pundits who tore into the president after his late-night rally speech in Phoenix on Tuesday. The Obama-era intel boss called the event “scary and …

Talking Points Memo reports: Senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway on Sunday gave her boss some advice she attributed to hypothetical supporters who have been responsible for a dip in his approval ratings: “Focus on the agenda.” “His approval rating among Republicans and conservative and Trump voters is down slightly. It needs to go up,” Conway said on ABC News’ …

Everything is fake: Presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway insisted Friday that a federal grand jury empaneled by special counsel Robert Mueller to probe allegations that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia last year will turn up nothing. “Let me remind everyone what the president has said about this: It’s a witch-hunt. It’s fake. Last night I believe he called it a …

Via Mediaite: On Thursday night, CNN’s Chris Cuomo and Kellyanne Conway had a lengthy, heated interview, much of it involving the ongoing Russia investigation. Conway disputed Cuomo’s assurance that his network doesn’t cover things like the most recent improvements in VA reform. Cuomo then challenged Conway on Trump’s assumption that this investigation was a “witch hunt” and that his involvement …

The Washington Examiner reports: White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said Sunday that President Trump would determine next week if the administration will make cost-sharing reduction payments to insurance companies. The payments, called CSRs, subsidize insurers for reducing co-pays and deductibles for low-income Obamacare customers. The administration’s reluctance to say if they’re going to make those payments have been blamed by …

Last night Propaganda Minister Kellyanne Conway took to Fox News to defend the shitcanning of Reince Priebus, saying that the relentless chaos in the White House is to Trump’s credit, because he’s an “unconventional president.” More from Raw Story: “The fact is, that every place of work, I believe has to understand the rules, the structure, the protocol, the pecking …

“There are so many qualified men and women who wanted to serve this president, this administration, and their country – who have been completely demoralized and completely, I think, disinclined to do so, based on the paperwork that we have to put forward – divesting assets and the different hoops we have to run through – because this White House …