#Kellyanne Conway

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Claudia Conway is the daughter of (soon to be divorced) George and Kellyanne Conway.

Kellyanne Conway served as Trump’s campaign manager and his Sr. Council.

The daughter has far more heart, common sense and empathy than her mother.

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Trust Me, 2024

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The GOP leadership disapproved of the GOP nominee for President.

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Alex Bollinger at LGBTQ Nation:

Donald Trump is now claiming that kids in schools are only learning about how to be transgender instead of “reading writing, arithmetic,” which is not true at all.

He made the comments during an interview with Fox Nation’s Kellyanne Conway where she asked about his plans to disband the Department of Education, which would be devastating for the funding of high-needs schools in the U.S. [...] “We’re going to move education back to the states where they can run their educational programs and they’ll do great,” he said. He then said that the U.S. is “last” in education, “we’re the worst” – which isn’t true – and that the U.S. spends more money “than anybody” per student on education, which is true if Luxembourg is excluded, although almost none of that money comes from the federal government. Schools in the U.S. get just under half of their funding from local governments and just under half from state governments.

He then claimed that he “saved” African American students and that he’s “doing great” among Black voters according to polling, which is not true: 79% of likely Black voters say they support Kamala Harris, and only 16% say they support Trump. After rambling for a bit, he promised more state control of education and claimed that education would be better in conservative states like India and Idaho and worse in liberal states like California. He said that states would have full control except, “We’ll have like one person and a secretary sitting there to make sure they have English, okay, they teach…” “We want reading, writing, and arithmetic,” he said. “Right now, you have mostly transgender. Everything’s transgender.”

[...] During his campaign, Trump has repeatedly claimed that schools are turning kids transgender, saying that students leave their homes in the morning and even get surgery while they’re at school before returning home. This is not a mistake in speech; he made this claim during multiple campaign events. He has been fact-checked on this point by multiple news organizations who found it to be false, and his campaign wasn’t even able to cite an example of this happening when asked by CNN.

Lie purveyor Donald Trump went on Kellyanne Conway’s Fox Nation show Here’s The Deal With Kellyanne this week to push the transphobic nonsensical claim that schools are mostly “teaching transgender”.

See Also:

HuffPost: In Interview With Fox Nation's Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump Tells Unforgivable Whopper About 'Transgender' Classes In School

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Trump lies constantly and so do his craven lickspittles.

The very first lies of the Trump administration involved inflating crowd size at his 20 January 2017 inauguration.

Kellyanne Conway continues the Trump tradition of inflationary crowd numbers.

Kellyanne Conway tried to draw some distinction between Donald Trump and Joe Biden during an appearance on Maria Bartiromo’s Sunday Morning Futures, noting that Trump was making outreaches to Black voters. “You got Donald Trump in Detroit talking to 8,000 people at a Black church,” she told Bartiromo. However, what Conway failed to note was that Trump did not speak to 8,000 people nor was the majority of the crowd Black when Trump spoke at 180 Church in Detroit on Saturday.

I went to Google Maps and and looked up 13660 Stansbury Avenue in Detroit - the address of the church. Using satellite view and Google's instrument for measuring distance, I measured the exterior of the building which was roughly 160' X 93' or 14,880 square feet. For comparison, a college basketball court is 94' X 50' or 4,700 square feet.

Here's the front of the 180 Church. It's no megachurch., perhaps 8 car lengths wide.

Kellyanne Conway is asking us to believe that 8,000 people were squeezed into an area the size of 3 basketball courts. Keep in mind that my calculation of 14,800 sq. ft. covers the whole building, not just the church sanctuary where Trump ranted. There are offices, presumably classrooms for Sunday school, a foyer, hallways, storage areas, and bathrooms.

Of course, being an attendee at a Trump event at a "Black church" does not necessarily make you Black.

A Reuters report noted that the crowd was a diverse mixture of white and Black attendees and “numbered in the hundreds, not thousands, and some attendees said they had just happened upon the scene by chance.” The report also said that the event was not at capacity once it started.

The MAGA zombies are impervious to factual reality, so they'll believe that there were 15,000,000 people there if told that by the Trump Mendacity-Industrial Complex. But calling out bullshit by Trumpsters can have a cumulative effect on people who aren't hardcore Trump cultists.

Somebody who has more time than me should devote a blog to actual crowd sizes at Trump events.

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Why people become MAGAs and why they leave.

MAGA is a cult.  Like all cults, it is authoritarian and believes in authoritarianism. Cults are the antithesis of democracy. A democratic cult would be an oxymoron. Cults are led by psychopaths. See the Robert Hare Checklist of Psychopathy Symptoms — the 20 criteria for psychopathy — here. MAGAs don’t really believe the Biden/Trump election was stolen because they don’t believe in elections.…

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BREAKING: Federalist Society leader Leonard Leo paid Ginni Thomas OFF THE BOOKS—$80,000, with at least one $25,000 payment being routed through Kellyanne Conway.

Leo specifically said that the payments should not mention Ginni Thomas.

Conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo arranged for the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to be paid tens of thousands of dollars for consulting work just over a decade ago, specifying that her name be left off billing paperwork, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post.

In January 2012, Leo instructed the GOP pollster Kellyanne Conway to bill a nonprofit group he advises and use that money to pay Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the documents show. The same year, the nonprofit, the Judicial Education Project, filed a brief to the Supreme Court in a landmark voting rights case.

Leo, a key figure in a network of nonprofits that has worked to support the nominations of conservative judges, told Conway that he wanted her to “give” Ginni Thomas “another $25K,” the documents show. He emphasized that the paperwork should have “No mention of Ginni, of course.”

Conway’s firm, the Polling Company, sent the Judicial Education Project a $25,000 bill that day. Per Leo’s instructions, it listed the purpose as “Supplement for Constitution Polling and Opinion Consulting,” the documents show.

In all, according to the documents, the Polling Company paid Thomas’s firm, Liberty Consulting, $80,000 between June 2011 and June 2012, and it expected to pay $20,000 more before the end of 2012. The documents reviewed by The Post do not indicate the precise nature of any work Thomas did for the Judicial Education Project or the Polling Company.

The arrangement reveals that Leo, a longtime Federalist Society leader and friend of the Thomases, has functioned not only as an ideological ally of Clarence Thomas’s but also has worked to provide financial remuneration to his family. And it shows Leo arranging for the money to be drawn from a nonprofit that soon would have an interest before the court.

In December 2012, the Judicial Education Project submitted an amicus brief in Shelby County v. Holder, a case challenging a landmark civil rights law aimed at protecting minority voters.

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"Kamala Harris was talking to me from the waist down."

--Kellyanne Conway

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Jessica Valenti at Abortion, Every Day:

You don’t need to be a political genius to know that Republicans are straight up shitting themselves right now. The Arizona Supreme Court ruling in favor of an 1864 ban was a tipping point across the country, and the GOP—in every state, at every level—knows that voters are furious.

It’s not just the nightmare stories of raped children being denied care and women going septic that put voters over the edge, but the disdain for women that seeps out of every anti-abortion decision. At the same time Arizona Republicans are enacting a law from before women had the right to vote, anti-abortion groups and Idaho Republicans are headed to the Supreme Court to argue that states shouldn’t have to give women life-saving abortions. How much clearer can they get? All of which is to say: strategists have their work cut out for them. How can they convince voters ahead of November that the anti-abortion horror show they’ve unleashed on Americans is good, actually?

If anyone has an answer, it’s Kellyanne Conway. The Republican strategist and all-around terrible person has been doing damage control in the wake of the Arizona ruling, pushing out talking points at record speed. And the messages she’s focusing on paint a clear picture of what we can expect to see from GOP candidates—including Donald Trump—over the next few months. In a recent appearance on Fox News, for example, Conway stuck to some of her old standards—namely, attacking Democrats as the real extremists. She honed in on ballot measures, specifically, saying that abortion rights activists are trying to pass amendments that are “more permissive than pre-Dobbs.” Of course, this is demonstrably false. It’s also one of the reasons I don’t love ‘viability’ language in proposed amendments—in addition to the fact that it’s just another restriction, Republicans will claim we’re pushing for abortion ‘up until birth’ regardless.

Conway also repeated some of our favorite anti-abortion bingo words like “compassion,” and “federal minimum standard” in lieu of ‘ban’—but it was something she said about states’ rights that piqued my interest.

[“What is state’s rights? Is it when the state Supreme Court speaks? Is it through a ballot initiative? Is it through the governor and the state legislature working together? Is it through the trigger laws that have been on the books? I can argue that it’s all of the above.”]

Over the last few months—especially as pro-choice ballot measures have advanced in multiple states—I’ve noticed Republicans tinkering with the definition of states’ rights and the ‘will of the people.’ Essentially, they know that they’re passing abortion bans against voters’ wishes, so they need to make it sound as if these laws are something Americans actually want. (That’s why they say ‘consensus’ instead of ‘ban.’)

This week, for example, Fox News ran a headline about the EMTALA case headed to the Supreme Court, stating that the Biden administration is “subverting state’s rights” by requiring hospitals to give women life-saving and stabilizing abortions. John Bursch, an attorney from Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the radical legal group arguing the case, told Fox News, “It’s pushing abortion on states that don't want it.” It takes a lot of nerve to pass abortion bans no one wants, only to then accuse pro-choice politicians of disregarding voters’ wishes! But that’s the message I’m seeing come up again and again among Republican legislators, anti-abortion activists and conservative media.

Jessica Valenti’s Abortion, Every Day Substack exposes the GOP’s abortion bans are the “will of the people” charade in which they falsely suggest that the Democrats are the ones extreme on abortion.

These nimrods claim to be for “states’ rights” when it comes to abortion bans, but they would ban it nationwide in a heartbeat if given a chance to do so.

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