Posted on 01/25/2019 6:47:53 AM PST by Red Badger
A new excerpt from former White House communications staffer Cliff Sims' new memoir emerged in Vanity Fair, and this one focused on a very special member of President Trump's Team of Vipers: Kellyanne Conway. Sims doesn't appear to be a fan:
As I watched Kellyanne in operation over our time in the White House, my view of her sharpened. It became hard to look long at her without getting the sense that she was a cartoon villain brought to life. Her agenda — which was her survival over all others, including the president — became more and more transparent. [Cliff Sims, via Vanity Fair]
In the White House, "Kellyanne managed to land a job with no fixed responsibilities" and a huge office, where she could "just dabble in areas that piqued her interest," Sims writes. And one of those interests was leaking, a fact he learned firsthand while drafting a response on her MacBook to Morning Joe calling her out for being two-faced about Trump:
Kellyanne was sitting at her desk texting away. And since her iMessage account was tied to both her phone and her laptop, which she must not have even considered, I could inadvertently see every conversation she was having. Over the course of 20 minutes or so, she was having simultaneous conversations with no fewer than a half-dozen reporters, most of them from outlets the White House frequently trashed for publishing "fake news." [Sims, Vanity Fair]
Conway "bashed" Kushner, Steve Bannon, and Reince Priebus by name and also recounted private conversations with Trump, "talking about him like a child she had to set straight," Sims said. "I was sitting there, watching this, totally bewildered. I was supposed to be writing a statement, defending her against accusations that she had done almost exactly what I was watching her do that very moment." Read more about his impressions of Conway and Trump at Vanity Fair. Peter Weber
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Kellyanne Conway secretly trashed Trump, his top advisers to mainstream reporters, ex-Trump aide recounts
AS I remember, she use to be never Trumper. Like hubby. Keep your enemy close.
I have always suspected her sincerity. They are the Matlin -Carville duo 2.0
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I've never heard of Cliff Sims before this moment.
makes sense to me - I’m sure she thinks she’s the smartest person in any room she walks into...Trump has performed best exactly when he isn’t taking the advice of political pros and advisors.
Et tu, Kellyanne?
This, if true, explains her hubby’s unanswered tirades against Trump.
I have never had a good feeling about her. Sorry. Never have.
In 2016, I heard that toward the end of the campaign, she had been interviewed on one of the news shows where she had to praise and defend PDJT. Walking off the stage she made pretend gagging gestures, as if it made her sick. Don’t know if it’s true — something that was reported back then.
WTF are so many of you believing some blather from a disgruntled former staffer nobody, excerpted in Vanity Fair? Believe what you want, but it reads like he’s making it up as he’s typing it.
I’m not buying it. She has consistently been Trump’s fiercest defender. I think the author is trying to sow seeds of discourse.
You have to figure some percent of White House Staffers are pure slime. When they come out like this one they may make a living in the pundit circles, but who would trust them near any sort of real power?
IIRC he started Yellowhammer News in AL.
Agree - attempts by the enemy to sow division.
Bullsh!t! Sure ex aid speaks out against a women who spends her days defending the Trump policy, living with a husband who openly hates him. Sorry but if he’s that bad, she would have left by now. No one and I mean no one wastes energy on something they don’t believe in.
Exactly...Why would an anti-Trump outfit like Vanity Fair out someone in the White House who was doing just what Vanity Fair would want done????
Not reading the article, but you know, she was a Cruzlim.
against a women who spends her days defending the Trump policy, living with a husband who openly hates him.
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KellyAnne could easily prove her loyalty. Dump one of them.
You can’t do both sides.
Yeah that was morning joe. Mika and her husband making stuff up. She did pretty well running the campaign.
When she ripped Jim acosta a few weeks ago you could tell that came from the heart. Kellyanne is not a rat.
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