Trump’s former press secretary Kellyanne Conway is being criticized for making a claim that Conway claimed in her latest book she said that he had lost 2020.
“Kellyanne Conway never told me that she thought we lost the election,” Trump posted Thursday on his social media platform Truth Social. “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 claims Kellyanne Conway did not tell him that he had lost 2020. In her new book she writes she “may have been the first person Donald Trump trusted in his inner circle who told him that he had come up short this time”https://t.co/pbYpAOjtht pic.twitter.com/y4ZnUgFvxb
— Meridith McGraw (@meridithmcgraw) May 26, 2022
“Writing books can make people say some very strange things,” he added. “I wonder why?”
Trump was fuming because of one line in Conway’s “Here’s the Deal,” her new memoir, in which she heavily criticizes former adviser and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and even her own husband. Not surprisingly, she did. Not criticize Trump.
According to The New York Daily News, the line that upset the president was:
Donald Trump may have trusted me as the first to tell him that he was failing this time.
Trump long maintained that the election was rigged. He basically said in his post that Trump would have fired Conway if she informed him that Trump lost. Conway actually praised Trump throughout her 500-page book, which is rare among former officials of the administration.
“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.”
Kellyanne, one of Trump’s most trusted officials, stood firm behind him during his two impeachment trials. Since her resignation from Trump’s administration in summer 2020, Kellyanne has apparently remained close with him. We’ll see if this broadside changes that.
He almost never critiqued her in her time, but he was a frequent critic of her husband, former Lincoln Project member and vocal Never-Trumper. George Conway. She describes in the memoir how George’s tweetstorms almost ruined their marriage (and still may). In an uneasy situation, Trump supported her throughout.
It seems that Trump has plans to launch a 2024 presidential campaign. Kellyanne also stated the same Thursday during a Fox Business interview.
So there she is, giving out praise on the same day that he’s essentially calling her a liar.
Trump did many great things for the country during his tenure, and I would much rather be living in Donald’s America than the current shipwreck that is Bidenworld. Yet, I don’t see how this kind of attack on one of his most steadfast allies helps Trump’s cause. Trump must focus on the future to continue his leadership. We all have questions regarding the fairness of 2020’s elections. That’s partly because the present is such a cluster, and partly because even if he’s right, it’s too late to change the 2020 result. (I’m not saying we shouldn’t investigate the 2020 election; we need to so we can make sure there are no anomalies next time. But let other people fight that battle, like Dinesh D’Souza does in his excellent documentary 2000 Mules.)
I love Trump’s pugnacious style and singular ability to fight the crazy Dems and the liberal media. With the possible exception perhaps of Ron DeSantis, no other GOP politician is as close. We’re in for a fight for this country, and we need to win it. Trump could have shown more compassion for those fighting beside him and saved Trump’s fire. He could have simply said of Conway’s comment, “That’s not how I recall it,” and move on. He didn’t have to go there.
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