Kellyanne Conway: I Was Just Joking When I Said James Comey Swung an Election
Source: Daily Beast, Good Morning America
In an interview with Good Morning America Monday, senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway turned heads when she said former FBI Director James Comey swung an election with the actions he took in 2016. The remarks appeared to undercut a main talking point pushed by Conways boss, President Donald Trump, that Hillary Clinton lost on her own incompetence as a candidate. And moments after the interview aired, Conway told The Daily Beast that she was being tongue-in-cheek. I rolled my eyes and said Really, this guy swung an election? It was sarcastic, she said. Elsewhere in the interview, Conway accused Comey of being motivated by politics and love of power. She said he struggled to answer basic questions and he looked a little shaky in the 20/20 interview pegged to his new book, A Higher Loyalty. When George Stephanopoulos told Conway that Comey took Trumps comment calling Michael Flynn a good guy to be directions to drop the investigation, she replied that Comey did nothing about it. What did he do with it? Did he run out and tell the attorney general, Please come in here, I feel uncomfortable? Conway said. This man loved being in the proximity of power... until he got fired and wrote a book. When asked if she knew what President Trump thought of the interview, she said: The president is very confounded that this person is always able to divert the spotlight to him... He was a very deft way of making things about him.
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FULL INTERVIEW: "I spoke to the President before the interview..." Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway one-on-one with @GStephanopoulos: http://abcn.ws/2IX5eHD
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/kellyanne-conway-james-comey-interview-was-revisionist-version-of-history
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)Why is someone this ugly (as a person not her looks), this untruthful, this vile, able to achieve such a high position in our system, or society?
Oh wait, yeah, forgot, republican party exists.
ollie10
(2,091 posts)Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)I'd immediately ask to see the manager.
WhiteTara
(29,718 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Or maybe an Alternative Joke?
Americans have learned to expect lies from republicans. Disgraceful.
Paladin
(28,264 posts)Hope it was good for you, Kellyanne.....
mtngirl47
(990 posts)flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Ding ding ding. Mar-a-lago-a-go-go, baby.
I heard they put him there to keep him busy with the Japanese Prime Minister, because they needed to keep him distracted for the Comey book release.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)....on a blatant lie or exaggeration?
We're all getting tired of this daily bullshit!
MyOwnPeace
(16,928 posts)"I'm sorry so many mis-understood" line..................
d_r
(6,907 posts)Coventina
(27,121 posts)Coventina
(27,121 posts)Some day I will get around to buying the DVD....
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,007 posts)She was trying to discredit Comey and is so stupid that she didn't think it through to realize that her statement would discredit tRump's so-called win in the Electoral College after losing the Election. Then she got reprimanded behind the scenes and has to walk back.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)She got caught telling the truth. That is the ultimate sin in the Turd Administration.
marble falls
(57,106 posts)looks like she got a lot of foundation on, does she have a black eye she's trying conceal.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)Link to tweet
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She just admitted Trump is an illegitimate president!#ComeyInterview
elleng
(130,974 posts)There is no THERE, there!!!
Hav
(5,969 posts)If you watch the interview, she was unloading on Comey in every way possible, she wasn't joking or sarcastic in her criticism of him. It also makes no sense as she was attacking him. But it was obvious that the moment she said it, she understood what she just said and made it appear as if Comey tried to sway the election in Clinton's favour. But that also makes no sense as the polls had Clinton in the lead.
Grammy23
(5,810 posts)And creates a sh*t storm with one sentence. She is pure talent and finesse. I am sure tRump is proud to have her on his team.
dflprincess
(28,079 posts)Nitram
(22,822 posts)He didn't need any help to win the erection!!!