The default position for everyone associated with the Trump campaign for the White House is to blame everything on someone or something else. If Trump is accused of bragging about how he gets off on sexually assaulting unsuspecting women, it’s Bill and Hillary Clinton’s fault. If pressure mounts for the candidate to release his tax returns, the IRS is to blame.
But on CNN Wednesday, Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway got her ass handed to her for attempting to blame the media for new allegations of the GOP nominee groping women over the years. Host Brianna Keilar played a video of a beauty pageant contestant claiming Trump used to walk into dressing rooms where women were disrobed. Keilar asked Conway:
“You hear that. What’s your reaction?”
But instead of answering the query, Conway tried to play the blame game:
“The fact is that all you want to do, it seems, is talk about something he said ten, 15 years ago and, yet, we never, ever want to talk — particularly CNN where we offered up these women to you — we never want to talk to the women shamed and blamed by Hillary Clinton because they had sexual contact with her husband. Some consensual long-time affairs including in the White House and others, victims of predatory conduct. That somehow is not relevant. But Donald Trump on Howard Stern’s show is relevant.”
Calmly but firmly, Keilar told the campaign chief:
“We’ve fact-checked that. If you go on CNN.com we’ve gone painstakingly through the claims you’re talking about and found that they were exaggerated. We want to talk about your candidate.”
When Keilar tried to ask about Russian hackers stealing information from the Democratic National Committee, Conway got incredibly defensive:
“We would have absolutely no knowledge. And when I see senior members of the Clinton campaign telling the New York Times and other outlets that they know who is behind this and who was tipped off by it, that’s irresponsible as well.”
Once again Conway went to blaming others, especially the media, and Keiler finally let Conway have it with both barrels:
“Kellyanne, you know if you give a speech as a political candidate and you want someone to focus on something, you don’t throw out something completely, you know, outrageous or inflammatory to take away from it. That’s not the media’s fault. That is the candidate’s problem.”
And THAT is how you shut down a lying piece of crap like Kellyanne Conway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xzt7rVJ_ZY
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