Kellyanne Conway served as campaign manager, special counselor, and extra-special apologist to President Donald Trump during his presidency.
If you look closely, you can see she has a facial tick that reveals when she’s lying.
Her lips move.
Conway lived with her husband George and their children in Trump Tower for several years before Trump was elected president.
https://www.newsweek.com/george-conway-trump-world-tower-tweet-emoluments-defense-1413071
Conway’s condition worsened as her lying became more frequent when she began working for Trump.
It’s possible – and I’m just spitballing here – that she suffered from cognitive dysfunction because of the stench of so many Trump business deals done in the building or perhaps by the stench of Trump cologne worn by many of the Trump toadies in the building.
This is called the Trump Tower syndrome.
Nevertheless, Conway’s lying – and the conspicuousness of those lies – exacerbated soon after Trump became president.
Donald Trump said that more than a million people attended his inauguration.
This raised serious doubt about his eyesight or further doubts about his mental capacity.
Only one of those issues can easily be corrected.
Trump’s claim was a lie.
It was made worse by the fact that his press secretary Sean Spicer repeated that it “was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration — period — both in person and around the globe.”
The Washington Post’s fact checker gave Spicer four Pinocchios for its most egregious lies.
PolitiFact characterized Trump’s and Spicer’s statements as “Pants on Fire” falsehoods, which it gives to its most egregious lies.
CNN.com reported Spicer’s lie under the headline, “White House press secretary attacks media for accurately reporting inauguration crowds.”
https://money.cnn.com/2017/01/21/media/sean-spicer-press-secretary-statement
The Trump Administration tried to legitimize Trump’s lie with Spicer’s lie; and when that didn’t work, it tried to legitimize Spicer’s lie with yet another lie.
Here’s where Kellyanne Conway comes in.
Conway, Trump’s top advisor, told NBC that Trump’s crowd numbers could not be verified – an outright lie — and said that Spicer was providing what she called “alternative facts.”
NBC’s Chuck Todd then responded, “Alternative facts are not facts. They are falsehoods.”
In that moment, Conway “ushered in the era of alternative facts,” the Washington Post reported.
Conway trumped Trump when it came to lying.
Conway had not just lied; she had altered the meaning of the word “lie.”
Conway, as if to prove “alternative facts” was not a fluke, followed up with yet another “alternative fact” a few days later.
When Trump called for a travel ban against seven prominently Muslims countries, Conway told MSNBC said the travel ban was necessary to avoid another “Bowling Green massacre,” a reference to when terrorists, posing as refugees had gone to Bowling Green, Kentucky, and . . . oh, the humanity.
Conrad derided the news media for not covering the Bowling Green Massacre.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/conway-struggles-shake-her-made-massacre-msna951201
The media blackout of the story was so complete that not even the mayor of Bowling Green was aware that there had been a massacre in his city.
This was largely because there had been no massacre in Bowling Green.
Conway was lying and she had repeated the lie in other interviews and would likely have kept repeating it if she had not been exposed as a lying liar.
PolitiFact, the fact-checking site of the Poynter Institute, called her quote “false.”
Conway became the object of ridicule on social media.
https://time.com/4659303/kellyanne-conway-bowling-green-massacre-donald-trump/
Those on Twitter responded with touching posts such as “Never Remember” and “I survived the Bowling Green massacre.”
One internet meme showed a brass plaque that included the names of the victims of the massacre. The plaque was blank.
A restaurant in Bowling Green set a one-day sales record with a pizza called, “the Bowling Green Massacre.” The proceeds for the pizza went to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The tasty pizza was easy to swallow, which distinguished it from anything Conway said.
Bowling Green residents met for a candlelight vigil for those who did not die in the tragedy that did not happen.
When Conway clarified her comments with a disingenuous apology, Fox News came to her defense by reporting,
“Kellyanne Conway admits she made a mistake in talking about a Kentucky massacre that never took place.”
Uh-huh.
Conway would have been fired in any other administration, business, or organization for telling such a bold-faced lie.
But when you work for a pathological liar like Trump, you don’t get fired for telling lies, you get fired for telling the truth.
On February 9, a week after breaking the story of a fictional massacre, Conway went on the Fox News’ program Fox and Friends to hawk Ivanka Trump’s clothing business, apparently violating the Hatch Act, a federal law that prohibits the political activities of federal employees from endorsing “any product, service or enterprise.”
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/2635.702
GOP House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz called Conway’s hawking of clothes on television “over the line” and “unacceptable.”
https://money.cnn.com/2017/02/22/media/kellyanne-conway-sidelined-from-tv/index.html
Conway had in the month since Trump became president told two egregious lies and, according to constitutional scholars, violated a federal law.
On February 13, 2017, Conway claimed to reporters that National Security Adviser Michael Flynn had the president’s “full confidence.” Flynn resigned hours later.
https://money.cnn.com/2017/02/22/media/kellyanne-conway-sidelined-from-tv/index.html
Conway should have been fired and, stripped of all credibility and respectability, there was perhaps only one line of work available to her.
But would Fox News hire her?
We sometimes forget that despicable jerks like Kellyanne Conways have spouses and children.
Kellyanne was married to George Conway, a longtime conservative who had been an adviser to GOP politicians, initially supported Trump but then rejected him after he recognized what his wife did not.
George Conway calls Trump, among other things, “a narcissist sociopath” and “a sociopathic criminal.”
Conway also joined with other former GOP strategists to create the Lincoln Project, a political action committee designed to defeat Trump and Trumpism.
This made for some jolly times at the Conway home.
Claudia Conway, the couple’s daughter, became known as a TikTop influencer for her anti-Trump messages and for addressing her parents’ failed marriage. In January 2021, she claimed that her mother was “physically, mentally, and emotionally abusive,” posting videos on TikTok appearing to show her mother screaming at and even once hitting her.”
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2021/1/20/22241304/claudia-conway-kellyanne-abuse-tiktok-covid
George Conway quit the Lincoln Project and Kellyanne Conway left the Trump Administration to work on their marriage. They divorced in 2021.
Washington Post columnist Margaret Sullivan wrote that Kellyanne’s legacy was her contempt for the truth.
“Perhaps more than any other Trump official,” Sullivan said, “she has undermined the entire notion that truthful information should be expected from the White House and that public officials at the highest level should be held accountable for their words and deeds.”
Conway began lying in the first few days of the Trump Administration and kept lying as long as she worked for the administration.
But, Sullivan said, the news media kept inviting her to appear on their programs to accuse the press of lying themselves.
https://news.yahoo.com/kellyanne-conway-resurfaces-her-most-093337434.html
Andy Borowitz, a satirist for The New Yorker, wrote a piece that said that Kellyanne Conway had left the White House working as counselor to President Donald Trump for a job working as counselor to Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin.
“Everyone here is happy for Kellyanne,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, “but our nation has lost a great liar.”
Conway told reporters that she was excited to work in “a country that doesn’t have dumb old laws like the Hatch Act.”
“As a federal employee, there were so many restrictions on getting involved in American elections, but at the Kremlin that’ll be my main job,” she said.
