If they are able-bodied and they want to work, then they’ll have employer-sponsored benefits like you and I do.
– White House Counsel Kellyanne Conway, June 25, 2017, telling poor people whose healthcare her bosses are about to cut to get a job
Category Archives: Kellyanne Conway
Obvious Lie is Obvious
Obamacare took Medicaid, which was designed to help the poor, the needy, the sick, disabled, also children and pregnant women, it took it and went way above the poverty line to many able-bodied Americans.
– White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, June 25, 2017, telling a whopper of a lie about the ACA
PS: Ur dum
Anybody who pretends I’m not smart or not credible, it’s like, ‘Excuse me, I’ve spoken 1.2 million words on TV, okay?,’ You wanna focus on two here and two there, it’s on you, you’re a fucking miserable person, P.S., just whoever you are.
– Counselor to President Donald J. Trump, March, 2017, when confronted about lying
Made Up Terror
I bet it’s brand new information to people that President Obama had a six-month ban on the Iraqi refugee program after two Iraqi refugees came here to this country, were radicalized and were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre. Most people don’t know that because it didn’t get covered.
– Kellyanne Conway, Counselor to the President, February 3, 2017
Alternative Facts
Don’t be so overly dramatic about it, Chuck. You’re saying it’s a falsehood, and they’re giving — our press secretary, Sean Spicer, gave alternative facts to that.
– Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway, January 22, 2017, when confronted about White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s blusterfilled press conference wherein he lied about inauguration crowd numbers
Public Insults, Private Apologies
CONWAY: I do hope, Rachel, that people who feel that they have been caused personal pain by Donald Trump, looked at his regrets last week in a very public form. And it’s very unusual for anybody who is running for political office to — frankly, to ever say that they regret causing personal pain.
And I hope that anybody who feels that way will at least see that contrition and take that and at least accept his regret. And …
MADDOW: But there’s no apology. I mean …
CONWAY: Well, that would be done in private anyway.
– Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway, August, 2016
Then What?
And I really don’t appreciate campaigns thinking it is the job of the media to go and be these virtual fact-checkers and that these debate moderators should somehow do their bidding.
– Kellyanne Conway, Counselor to the President, September 26, 2016