Former President Donald Trump personally attacked Kelian Conway on Thursday morning over her new memoir. Here is a deal in which she recalled telling the former president that he had finally lost the 2020 election.
While the first rebuke from Trump’s Conway team and her book came earlier this week through a spokesperson, this latest blow was posted by Trump himself on his Truth Social platform.
“Kelian Conway never told me she thought we had lost the election. If it was her, I wouldn’t be dealing with her anymore – she would be wrong – she could go back to her crazy husband, “Trump wrote, referring to his former adviser and campaign leader, ardently anti-Trump husband George Conway.” books can make people say some very strange things. “
In the book, Conway claims to have been one of the first advisers to tell Trump he lost the election, which he has since claimed was “stolen” from him. “Perhaps I was the first person Donald Trump trusted in his inner circle to tell him he had failed this time,” Conway wrote. She did not respond to The Daily Beast’s request for comment on Thursday.
Elsewhere in his memoirs, Conway targeted advisers who bypassed Trump, who repeatedly repeated and allowed his disastrous and baseless claim that the 2020 election was “rigged” and “stolen” through widespread voter fraud.
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“Instead of taking responsibility for the loss, they played together and cheered with all their might (privately, not on television) when Trump kept insisting he won,” she recalled. “The team failed on November 3 and then failed again. By not confronting the candidate with the grim reality of his situation that the evidence did not support the allegations, they denied him the evidence he was looking for and the respect he deserved. Instead of begging after a swindler after a showman, they worshiped the Resolute Desk and promised the president goods they could not deliver. ”
This is not the first time the Trump team has thrown cold water on some of the claims in Conway’s book.
As The Daily Beast exclusively reported over the weekend, Conway claims that in October 2016, amid the aftermath of Access Hollywood tapes, Trump was considering leaving the election. “Should I go out? [of the race]? ” Conway remembered Trump asking her on the night of Oct. 8 as he pondered, “Will I lose? Will we lose? Can we still win? “
Following the report, Trump’s chief spokeswoman, Liz Harrington, told The Daily Beast that Conway’s allegations about the conversation were “completely untrue.”
“I don’t need to be read by speakers who weren’t there and certainly didn’t help him win,” Conway told The Daily Beast in response.
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