Kellyanne Conway invents fake terrorist attack “Bowling Green Massacre”
- In a Thursday night interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, Kellyanne Conway defended Trump’s travel ban with what she would call “alternative facts” — the rest of us would call them lies.
- Trump’s top adviser spoke of the “Bowling Green Massacre,” which she said was carried out by two Iraqi refugees.
- She slammed the press for not covering the tragedy, which is why, Conway maintained, most people don’t know about it.
- However, as the Washington Post notes, such a terrorist attack never occurred in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
- Conway seemed to be referring to the 2011 arrest of two Iraqi citizens living in Bowling Green who were charged with attempting to send money and weapons to al-Qaida. Read more
Update: Kellyanne says Trump appointed the first woman to a top CIA job. He didn’t, Obama did.
- Conway is full of “alternative facts” — dismissing the truth while promoting Trump administration hires and policies.
- Yesterday, Conway tweeted praise for Trump’s appointment of Gina Haspel to be second-in-command at the CIA, calling her the “first female” to serve in that role.
- As former CIA spokesman George Little pointed out, that simply isn’t the case — Obama appointed Avril Haines as deputy director of the CIA in 2013. Read more
Here’s a relatively significant post script: today, the useless White House Press Corps didn’t ask Trump spokesliar Sean Spicer A SINGLE QUESTION about this.