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Kellyanne Conway secretly trashed Trump,top advisers to mainstream reporters,ex-Trump aide recounts
theweek.com ^ | January 24, 2019 | Staff

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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To: HombreSecreto
Agree - attempts by the enemy to sow division

You have nailed it!


21 posted on 01/25/2019 7:06:43 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: Red Badger

Ooooh “bashing”. Is “bashing” anything like “collusion”? snicker.


22 posted on 01/25/2019 7:07:25 AM PST by rhombus10
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To: ivory49

No—keeping Never Trumpers high up in his admin has been a disaster for Trump.

Just a bad mistake all around, repeated and sustained.


23 posted on 01/25/2019 7:07:33 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: GAGOP

I don’t believe it either.

Kellyanne worked her @ss off for Trump.


24 posted on 01/25/2019 7:07:57 AM PST by Conserv
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To: Red Badger

Agree.

This is why most large corporations interview the spouse as well as the candidate for a top job. While the prospective employee may have talent, it speaks volumes about that person by whom they have chose to share life with.

This, frankly, is an outrage. KAC carried on in public as if she was solidly in President Trump’s corner. Shameful.

Well...bye.


25 posted on 01/25/2019 7:09:48 AM PST by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Red Badger
she was having simultaneous conversations with no fewer than a half­-dozen reporters

It is her job to talk to reporters. And she has been one of Trump's most effective defenders.

26 posted on 01/25/2019 7:11:35 AM PST by marron
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To: shelterguy

Then again, maybe it’s all a farce. Maybe she wants us to think her husband is a whack job and she has this job to get away from him and gives her a nice income.

Nobody knows for sure. I certainly don’t.


27 posted on 01/25/2019 7:11:35 AM PST by hsmomx3
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To: BillyCuccio

“Yeah that was morning joe. Mika and her husband “

I can honestly say that I’ve never seen five seconds of either one of them.


28 posted on 01/25/2019 7:11:40 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Jeremiah 1:5 - "Before I formed thee ... I knew thee.")
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To: Red Badger

Why are we grabbing this story, hook, line and lies?


29 posted on 01/25/2019 7:12:06 AM PST by madison10
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To: GAGOP

Agree. We’ve heads all this before, same BS - different person.

Sims saw an easy way to cash in. Else why didn’t he expose this months ago? Takes a lot of gall to do this and then accuse others of having self interest.


30 posted on 01/25/2019 7:12:34 AM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: madison10

Perhaps it is true.

It would explain a lot.

I have always suspected her, and her hubby, of being a double agent............


31 posted on 01/25/2019 7:13:28 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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KellyAnne has been outed by like more than 3+ people as being the leaker

Hmmm, who to believe???!!!

32 posted on 01/25/2019 7:14:58 AM PST by KavMan
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To: Red Badger

Sims is obviously trying to drive a stake between those in the White House. Another snake.


33 posted on 01/25/2019 7:15:05 AM PST by From The Deer Stand
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To: dead

I heard that it was on Drudge as well a few days ago.

People ‘are believing’ for the reasons already outlined above: many here sensed there was something not right about her. Major player in the Trump Administration while at the same time the man she sleeps with trashes the President over and over again.

It’s the Mary Matilin, Captain Cueball nonsense.


34 posted on 01/25/2019 7:15:08 AM PST by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Red Badger

And I should believe this....because....?


35 posted on 01/25/2019 7:15:58 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: Red Badger

“...and this one focused on a very special member of President Trump’s Team of Vipers...”

theweek.com sounds like a huge fan of President Trump.

I’m sure their reporting will be honest and unbiased.


36 posted on 01/25/2019 7:17:35 AM PST by moovova (US Govt survey shows three out of four people make up 75% of the total population.)
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To: Red Badger

March 2018, she told reporter Nicholas Ballasy that President Donald Trump is “a great overall president, like, he did what he said he was going to do and he is doing things he never imagined he would have to, so that’s really hard to do with a staff that was not quite seasoned – it’s just sheer force of will and force of personality. I think he’s doing great. He’s doing really great. I can die happy now. I was really worried about it.

I have always liked Mary and I have a dem wife


37 posted on 01/25/2019 7:17:59 AM PST by larryjohnson (FReepersonaltrainer)
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To: GAGOP

> I’m not buying it. <

Normally, I wouldn’t buy it either. But Conway’s husband bashes Trump constantly. That’s just bizarre. Bizarre. It would be like the spouse of the president of Ford constantly bashing Ford cars.

So yeah, I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some truth in this article.


38 posted on 01/25/2019 7:18:23 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Red Badger

She was very important to helping Trump get elected.

I am not sure of her true loyalty. She may just consider herself doing her job. I don’t know but her husband sure waves a caution flag.


39 posted on 01/25/2019 7:18:44 AM PST by boycott
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To: Red Badger

This is all made-up tripe to sell a book. Kellyanne is solid.

I can’t believe there are so many gullible, pearl-clutching, hand-wringing FReepers.

(and we complain about the Rino’s going wobbly)


40 posted on 01/25/2019 7:19:32 AM PST by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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