Kellyanne and George Conway 2

[Howl]

Contemplating if Claudia Conway will become an emancipated minor at some point. 

[HerNameIsBuffy]

7 minutes ago, Howl said:

Contemplating if Claudia Conway will become an emancipated minor at some point. 

Is she financially independent?

[Howl]

She's trying out for American Idol, so you never know. 

[CTRLZero]

I’m sure I read this in another thread, so apologies if this is a repeat, but I see that Kellyanne Conway supposedly has a “tell-all” coming out.  Has anyone else read about this?  If she tells the truth (ha ha), I might even be interested in reading it.  Snippet from Politico below. 

Kellyanne Conway book release

Fear is mounting, too, about the tea-spilling to come. In particular, Trump officials are anxiously awaiting the books set to be published by actual colleagues, chief among them counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway and Jared Kushner, who plan to write their own accounts of the Trump presidency.

“I think it’s fraught right now as to who is telling the truth,” said a Trump adviser. “They’re all trying to go back in time and curate their own images.”

Privately, former administration officials and top campaign aides have shared concerns about Conway’s upcoming tell-all in particular. The ex-president’s loyal former counselor is expected to give a hold-no-punches account of her time in the White House and those she worked alongside. Conway herself sat down with Trump for her book at Mar-a-Lago.

[fraurosena]

4 hours ago, CTRLZero said:

I’m sure I read this in another thread, so apologies if this is a repeat, but I see that Kellyanne Conway supposedly has a “tell-all” coming out.  Has anyone else read about this?  If she tells the truth (ha ha), I might even be interested in reading it.  Snippet from Politico below. 

Kellyanne Conway book release

Fear is mounting, too, about the tea-spilling to come. In particular, Trump officials are anxiously awaiting the books set to be published by actual colleagues, chief among them counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway and Jared Kushner, who plan to write their own accounts of the Trump presidency.

“I think it’s fraught right now as to who is telling the truth,” said a Trump adviser. “They’re all trying to go back in time and curate their own images.”

Privately, former administration officials and top campaign aides have shared concerns about Conway’s upcoming tell-all in particular. The ex-president’s loyal former counselor is expected to give a hold-no-punches account of her time in the White House and those she worked alongside. Conway herself sat down with Trump for her book at Mar-a-Lago.

Personally, I wouldn’t give a dime for Kellyanne’s book, unless you were interested in alternative facts. She’s the one who coined that phrase after all, and who spent her time in the White House (getting paid by taxpayers!) by whitewashing and spinning Trump’s idiocy, nepotism and corruption. She does not deserve a penny out of anyone’s pockets.

As for Kushner, he spent his time in the White House lining his pockets, so why should he get more of your money for a book you already know will be full of lies?

If any former White House official wants to get the actual truth out there, it should come in the form of testimony under oath, before a Congressional committee or in a court of law. 

 

[Cartmann99]

Spoiler

 

[GreyhoundFan]

This is what prompted Kellyanne's panties to bunch up: "White House asks several Trump appointees to resign from military service academy boards"

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The White House said Wednesday that it has asked a number of Trump administration appointees to resign their positions on the advisory boards at military service academies, arguing that the move was about qualifications, not politics.

Among the 11 officials are former White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, former White House press secretary Sean Spicer and former national security adviser H.R. McMaster, according to CNN, which first reported news of the request.

Earlier Wednesday, one of the Trump appointees, Russ Vought, shared on social media a letter he received from the White House requesting that he resign or else face termination effective 6 p.m. He said he would not step down.

“Yes, we have,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said when asked whether the White House had requested the resignations. “And the president’s objective is what any president’s objective is: to ensure you have nominees and people serving on these boards who are qualified to serve on them and who are aligned with your values. And so, yes, that was an ask that was made.”

Asked whether the White House was concerned that the move might risk politicizing positions that have traditionally been nonpartisan roles that have spanned administrations, Psaki reiterated that the president’s primary concern was an appointee’s qualifications and values.

The boards are composed of members of Congress and presidential appointees and serve for three years in an advisory capacity. If they fail to resign, they could be fired.

“I will let others evaluate whether they think Kellyanne Conway and Sean Spicer and others were qualified, or not political, to serve on these boards,” Psaki said. “But the president’s qualification requirements are not your party registration.”

Conway had been appointed to the Air Force Academy Board of Visitors. Spicer, a Navy Reserve commander, had been serving on the Naval Academy’s advisory board. McMaster had been appointed to the advisory board at the U.S. Military Academy; the retired U.S. Army lieutenant general is a West Point graduate and previously taught history there.

Retired four-star Army Gen. Jack Keane also was appointed to the U.S. Military Academy Board.

Conway, in response to the request, tweeted a letter to Biden in which she said: “I’m not resigning, but you should,” saying the White House action “seems petty and political, if not personal.”

Vought, the former director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Trump administration, had been serving on the Naval Academy’s Board of Visitors. In a tweet Wednesday afternoon, he shared a copy of the letter requesting his resignation along with a defiant reply: “No. It’s a three-year term.”

Spicer responded by criticizing President Biden’s handling of the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan.

“Instead of focusing on the stranded Americans left in #Afghanistan, President Biden is trying to terminate the Trump appointees to the Naval Academy, West Point and Air Force Academy,” he said in a tweet.

Keane, in an email response to The Washington Post, said it was “very disappointing that President Biden is not upholding the previous president’s appointments which has been pretty much the tradition.”

He said that when Trump appointees joined with those of former president Barack Obama, the advisory board “was quite stronger for its non-partisan membership. What we all have in common is the honor of assisting and supporting one of America’s most esteemed and beloved institutions.”

 

[GreyhoundFan]

Some of the responses to Kellyanne's letter are great:

 

More under spoiler:

Spoiler

 

 

[Cartmann99]

[JordynDarby5]

Did I miss something? How the hell did she end up on the board of anything at the Air Force Academy?

[GreyhoundFan]

3 hours ago, JordynDarby5 said:

Did I miss something? How the hell did she end up on the board of anything at the Air Force Academy?

Trump did a flurry of appointments at the 11th hour. Many were of similar dubious qualifications. 

[GreyhoundFan]

I love AOC's response:

[Cartmann99]

Kellyanne's trying to gaslight us again.

 

[Cartmann99]

 

[Howl]

KAC is evil, and still shilling the GQP party line, which is that Biden is a weak, ineffective leader and that's why Putin blah blah Ukraine yada yada yada.  Alas, a large percentage of the GOP leadership/Congress is promoting this same party line and a larger portion of the MAGA/GOP believe it. 

 

 

[fraurosena]

On 2/27/2022 at 9:53 PM, Howl said:

KAC is evil, and still shilling the GQP party line, which is that Biden is a weak, ineffective leader and that's why Putin blah blah Ukraine yada yada yada.  Alas, a large percentage of the GOP leadership/Congress is promoting this same party line and a larger portion of the MAGA/GOP believe it. 

 

 

Pushing Russian propaganda is a real tell of who is in Putin's pocket. It's going to be interesting to see what's going to happen in the next couple of weeks as the money from Russia dries up. Will they suddenly change their pro-Putin stance?

[Howl]

GQP will say anything to attempt to portray Biden as a weak, ineffectual and damaged leader.  This has been their angle all along,  the Base eat it up,  they will amplify it on social media and this won't change. 

We're going to see some changes soon, mainly in the rising price of gas, which will contribute to other rising costs.  This will all be blamed on Biden, even though the cost of gas isn't set by the President or Congress.  It will be harped on endlessly.  GoP is getting very nervous about 2024, and they'll keep on doing what they do. 

Re: Ukraine.  Everybody else has praised Biden's leadership, first by openly and transparently sharing intelligence pointing directly to Yes, Putin is going to invade! and he was 100% accurate, as we all now know and he's probably been behind a lot of support for Ukraine globally. 

 

[Cartmann99]

 

[Howl]

Is Kellyanne officially a Fox mouthpiece now?  We put out an announcement even if it said, "No public events."  

Once again, irony dies a painful death. 

 

 

 

[GreyhoundFan]

"In new book, Kellyanne Conway takes aim at many targets — except Trump"

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In 2015, Kellyanne Conway found herself en route to pick up her kids at elementary school, simultaneously pushing back against an attempt by Michael Cohen — then Donald Trump’s personal attorney and fixer — to rig the annual Conservative Political Action Conference’s buzzy straw poll, which her firm was running, in Trump’s favor.

“ ‘Mr. Trump’ needed to come in first in the PAC straw poll,” Conway recounted that Cohen told her in a phone call. “He repeated himself. Mr. Trump needed to come in first.”

Four years later, firmly ensconced in the White House as senior counselor to Trump as president, Conway said she found herself again facing the surreal, when Trump’s daughter Ivanka handed her a Post-it note with “the names of two local doctors who specialized in couples therapy.”

The marriage between Conway and her husband had erupted into public view when George T. Conway III began attacking Trump on Twitter, and Conway said Ivanka was responding to her own openness about seeking professional support.

“I noticed she had avoided putting that in a text or an email. I appreciated the information and her thoughtfulness and wanted to pursue it,” Conway recalled. “After I showed George the names, he rejected one and said a halfhearted ‘okay’ to the other while looking at his phone. We never went.”

These scenes and others are part of Conway’s nearly 500-page new memoir, “Here’s the Deal,” which The Washington Post obtained in advance of its Tuesday publication.

Part personal chronicle and part political journey, Conway’s book is filled with the sorts of barbed one-liners and bon mots that she dispensed on cable news on Trump’s behalf, becoming — depending on one’s perspective — increasingly famous or infamous.

Unlike many other Trump-focused tomes in the post-presidency era, Conway has not set out to pen a scathing tell-all, in which she distances herself from the president or administration she once served.

Her memoir is peppered with references to “Trump Derangement Syndrome” — a term she uses to refer to the media and the political left, who she says were unable to accept the reality that Trump vanquished Hillary Clinton in 2016. Conway is also among the relatively small group of staffers who managed to leave the White House still in Trump’s inner circle.

Her book walks a similar line, offering what she views as a candid assessment of some of her colleagues in the White House and the media — both positive and negative — but never skewering Trump himself.

Conway reserves some of her harshest criticism for Jared Kushner, Ivanka’s husband and a Trump senior adviser, whom she describes as “shrewd and calculating”; “a man of knowing nods, quizzical looks, and sidebar inquiries”; and someone who, as the president’s son-in-law, knew that “no matter how disastrous a personnel change or legislative attempt may be, he was unlikely to be held accountable for it.”

“There was no subject he considered beyond his expertise. Criminal justice reform. Middle East peace. The southern and northern borders. Veterans and opioids. Big Tech and small business,” she writes. “If Martian attacks had come across the radar, he would have happily added them to his ever-bulging portfolio. He’d have made sure you knew he’d exiled the Martians to Uranus and insisted he did not care who got credit for it. He misread the Constitution in one crucial respect, thinking that all power not given to the federal government was reserved to him.”

As an example of what she calls Kushner’s “schemes and dreams,” she later in the book recounts a scuttled immigration rollout plan in which Kushner suggested Trump “go to Ellis Island, where he’d stand at the foot of the Statue of Liberty to lead a naturalization ceremony.”

Conway says that her tension with Kushner came, in part, because he accused her of leaking to the media as a way to undermine her credibility with Trump — a charge she denies.

A Kushner ally said his portfolio included some of the administration’s biggest successes: a criminal justice reform bill, the USMCA trade deal, the Abraham Accords in the Middle East and the Operation Warp Speed coronavirus vaccine effort.

Conway also takes fleeting aim at Paul Manafort, the short-lived chair of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Manafort, she writes, “literally fell asleep during my PowerPoint on how to close the gender gap with Hillary. (He must have been on Ukraine time.).”

And Conway describes Reince Priebus, the former chair of the Republican National Committee who served as Trump’s first chief of staff, as “thoroughly conservative but not remotely MAGA,” a reference to Trump’s Make America Great Again campaign slogan.

Conway depicts Priebus as fundamentally not understanding the Trump movement; when Conway pressed a skeptical Priebus to allow a number of administration officials to address CPAC, the annual conservative gathering, he told her, “That’s because you love the crazies, Kellyanne, and they love you,” she writes.

Priebus had spoken at CPAC almost every year since becoming RNC chair, including in 2017, when he and Stephen K. Bannon, a former top Trump adviser, addressed the gathering together. Priebus declined to comment.

She also pulls no punches against much of the Trump White House’s team of coronavirus experts — particularly Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases — whom she depicts as slow to comprehend the magnitude of the virus in its early days, as well as donning masks in public but not always in private.

“No masks was standard fare in the White House Situation Room, where Dr. Fauci was more likely to wear ‘Dr. Fauci’ socks than a mask,” she writes. “Then, like magic, when D. Myles Cullen, the vice president’s photographer, came into the room, masks would suddenly appear.”

Fauci did not respond to a request for comment.

The book also offers a more personal side of Conway, as well as her relationship with Trump. She writes of growing up in an Italian Catholic female household, after her father left, when she was 3, without providing child support or alimony.

“I’d be raised by strong women,” she writes, explaining her reaction when Kushner, Priebus and Bannon offered a chilly reception upon learning Trump had asked her to join his administration as counselor to the president. “For as long as I could remember, I’d been manhandling jealous little boys.”

Later in the book — in a section on Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh’s contentious confirmation hearings, and without delving into the specifics — Conway also shares that, “unbeknownst to the public,” she was “a victim of sexual assault.”

Trump has been accused of sexual assault and misconduct by more than a dozen women. During his 2016 campaign, an “Access Hollywood” video emerged of him boasting about groping women against their will.

Conway, however, depicts Trump as a feminist who repeatedly supported and promoted her, allowing her to make history as the first woman to manage a winning presidential campaign.

“Donald Trump had elevated and empowered me to the top of his campaign, helping me crack glass ceilings that had never even been dinged before,” she writes, adding that “angry feminists” should “have at least once in their lives a ‘girl boss’ as generous, respectful, engaging, and empowering as Donald Trump was to me and my other female colleagues.”

Themes of family and motherhood also run through the book, with Conway writing about coming up as a woman in a male-dominated industry and — with chapters like “Cheerful Chaos,” “Kid Power” and “Mom Guilt” — both the joys and challenges of being a working parent and a working mom, in particular.

Nevertheless, Conway manages to ascend to the White House with Trump. And in the spring of 2020, Conway recalls sitting in the Oval Office with Trump, who muses that without Twitter, he would not have been elected: “True enough, but as I reminded him, with respect to social media, ‘Make sure it doesn’t get you unelected.’ ”

Later, after he had lost his reelection bid, Conway observes, “Trump was more shocked to lose in 2020, I think, than he was to win in 2016.”

In the waning days of his presidency, Conway also writes that, during a discussion with Trump on pardons and clemency, he turned to her and asked, “Do you want one?”

“Do you know something I don’t?” Kellyanne asked Trump, she writes. “Why would I need a pardon?”

“Because they go after everyone, honey. It doesn’t matter,” Trump replied, according the book.

“I politely declined,” she concludes.

Some of the rawest material in her book deals with her marriage, which became a source of inside-the-Beltway fascination — and media coverage — as George Conway ramped up his Twitter attacks on his wife’s boss.

Kellyanne Conway devotes portions early in her book to her husband’s romantic courtship of her, as well as his fulsome support of her taking on the role of Trump’s campaign manager and even of Trump himself. Which made her all the more confused, she says, when he began criticizing Trump publicly.

“For the first time since George and I had gotten serious, I was looking at the possibility that the man who had always had my back might one day stab me in it,” she writes.

As George’s tweeting ramps up, Conway writes that she “didn’t want to be stuck in a cable news segment in the master bedroom,” and the growing reality that she had “two men” in her life.

“One was my husband. One was my boss, who happened to be president of the United States,” she writes. “One of those men was defending me. And it wasn’t George Conway. It was Donald Trump.”

In the Afterword, Conway describes vying with Twitter for her husband’s time and attention and asks, “And why would I even try?” she wrote, equating Twitter with another woman. “She has no personality and she’s not even hot.”

She ends the book on an optimistic note — except, perhaps, for her marriage.

“Democracy will survive. America will survive,” she writes. “George and I may not survive.”

 

[Cartmann99]

Kellyanne Conway blames Jared Kushner for blowing Trump's election in rant on 'The View'

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While promoting her new book, former senior White House counselor Kellyanne Conway dished to the women of "The View" about her conflicts with Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.

According to Conway, they clashed from day one.

"I'm telling you the truth. I'm telling the truth about the way Jared got in my way," said Conway. "Alyssa [Farah] was there. She knows it. He got in my way and all Donald Trump asked us to do was work together and I had been pushed aside by so many men throughout my political and professional career, and here was my shot. Donald Trump empowered me, he put me at the top of his campaign, almost the moment Donald Trump won Jared was getting in my way."

She went on to say that Kushner was telling television producers not to book her anymore.

"We've known you as conservative for years in this town, why is he saying don't invite her to the meeting," Conway recalled folks asking her. "We were in the hallway, outside his office, around the corner from the president's office early on, he said, no one knows what you do around here. They see you on magazines, he said — he who was on the cover of Fortune and TIME magazines. He said, we see you on the cover of magazines, but you're at an effing 2 you need to be at a 10. Then he walked away."

She went on to recall Kushner's freakout over the president adding Conway to handling specific policy issues.

"Then he said why are you TV talking about that you're going to work with opioids and veterans," she recalled Kushner saying. "He said, 'you're offending the people who are going to work on opioids and veterans. Why do you think you can do that?' I said, 'The president said I could put it in my portfolio.' That's not good enough."

She went on to note that Kushner was given a vast portfolio of duties he had no experience performing, and went so far as to call it "Take Your Kid to Work Day."

Conway then blamed Kushner for screwing up the campaign by blowing through $1.4 billion and having Trump go to rallies in places like Oregon where he was never going to win anything. That's the reason Conway thinks Trump lost the Midwest, "then [Kushner] jets off to the Mid East."

 

[AlmostSavedAtTacoBell]

3 hours ago, Cartmann99 said:

Kellyanne Conway blames Jared Kushner for blowing Trump's election in rant on 'The View'

 

Kellyanne is just angry she got outweaseled by a horror movie mannequin whose only claim to fame is impregnating Trump’s Daughter-Wife. Most people can outsmart Jared with a pocket mirror and a set of jangling car keys. 

[Howl]

Kellyanne alluded to her marriage possibly not surviving George's becoming a never Trumper  Twitterati while she has remained a faithful humper. 

Idle speculation:  They'll get Claudia off to college and then divorce.  Who knows what their current living arrangement is. 

 

[AlmostSavedAtTacoBell]

On 5/26/2022 at 7:14 AM, Howl said:

Kellyanne alluded to her marriage possibly not surviving George's becoming a never Trumper  Twitterati while she has remained a faithful humper. 

Idle speculation:  They'll get Claudia off to college and then divorce.  Who knows what their current living arrangement is. 

 

I know what you meant, but you referring to Kellyanne as a “faithful humper” gave me a chill. I try not to comment on looks, but she really does look like Ursula got ahold of her after she failed to pay her debt for getting such evil power. 

[GreyhoundFan]

"Kellyanne Conway’s Memoir Sales Fall Flat After Trump Blasts Her and ‘Crazy Husband’ on Truth Social"

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Kellyanne Conway’s memoir “Here’s the Deal,” detailing her time as Donald Trump’s campaign manager and political adviser, has sold 25,003 copies since its May 24 debut.

Despite reaching the No. 1 spot on the New York Times’ best sellers’ list, the 500-page volume’s sales fell short in comparison to other White House tell-all memoirs.

As reported by the Intelligencer, Mary Trump’s explosive book about her uncle “Too Much and Never Enough” flew off the shelves, with 950,000 copies sold in its first 24 hours. Groundbreaking journalist Bob Woodward’s “Rage” sold 600,000 units in its first week.

Trump had harsh words for Conway’s memoir, which includes an anecdote about how the former Commander in Chief considered dropping out of the 2016 race weeks before Election Day. In an excerpt published prior to the book’s release, Conway writes that he thought about pulling out after the infamous Access Hollywood tape emerged, but that she persuaded him to stay in the running.

At the time the excerpt was published, Trump’s chief spokesperson Liz Harrington told The Daily Beast that Conway’s recollection of that moment was “totally false.” After its publication, on May 26, Trump aired his own views on his social media platform Truth Social.

“Kellyanne Conway never told me that she thought we lost the election. If she had I wouldn’t have dealt with her any longer – she would have been wrong – could go back to her crazy husband,” Trump wrote, referencing Conway’s husband George Conway, who has been extraordinarily vocal about being anti-Trump. “Writing books can make people say some very strange things.”

Still, “Here’s the Deal” fared much better than memoirs published by other White House figures, including Chris Christie (less than 3,000 sold in its first week) and most recently Meghan McCain.

Citing an NPD Book Scan provided to Secrets, the Washington Examiner reported that McCain’s “Bad Republican” memoir sold a measly 244 copies in the first few days.

McCain, a former host on “The View” and the daughter of John McCain, has claimed that “Bad Republican” is a hit audiobook and that the hard copy was only intended as a “collectible for people who have already downloaded and consumed it.”

If the numbers are accurate, Conway’s memoir has already outsold McCain’s 100 times over.