The timing of a new contract for Kellyanne Conway added another layer to her denials of any involvement in spreading negative stories about former President Donald Trump’s running mate.
“…the calls are coming in, not going out.”
Since Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance officially joined the president’s campaign, the freshman lawmaker has had to contend with a corporate media narrative of being “weird” and defend his position that “childless cat ladies” have been running the United States into the ground.
Speaking with The Bulwark, the political consultant and Trump 2016 campaign manager denied any involvement in pushing detrimental takes on the senator as she insisted, “When it comes to concerned people questioning the vetting or selection of J.D. Vance, the calls are coming in, not going out.”
“I’m not calling them and saying this is bad. People are asking me. They’re not just asking me. They’re asking lots of people,” she added as some had raised concern about the choice of Vance. She did admit that her favor had been behind Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. “I’m not anti-Vance. I was pro-Rubio.”
On the other hand, the outlet indicated that a confidant of the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., argued the attacks were “100 percent from Kellyanne.”
“He’s pissed off about it. He knows it’s her,” the source added, while a family member was on record suggesting “the family in general thinks very highly” of Conway.
The Bulwark detailed, “Conway denied the allegations, calling the dozen anonymous accusers ‘gossip girls’ and ‘ankle biters’ jealous of both her success and her close relationship with the former president, who frequently consulted her and gave her a speaking role at the Republican National Convention earlier this month.”
The allegations against Conway come as it was reported that the Fox News contributor registered as a foreign agent of Ukraine Friday after securing a $50,000 per month contract with the Victor Pinchuk Foundation.
As a consultant, Conway was expected to, in part, “engage U.S. lawmakers, and experts, and opinion makers, to explain the importance of Ukraine to the rules-based order and the protection of democratic principles.”
Meanwhile, Vance has pushed for a negotiated settlement between Ukraine and Russia to resolve the conflict rather than continue to send them hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars while leaving American national sovereignty unaddressed at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Likewise, Trump himself has insisted that he would be able to resolve the war “in one day” and remarked after the Republican National Convention that he’d spoken with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and assured as part of a second administration he “will bring peace to the world and end the war that has cost so many lives and devastated countless innocent families. Both sides will be able to come together and negotiate a deal that ends the violence and paves a path forward to prosperity.”
Conway remained confident that the president would not be swayed by arguments to trade out his running mate for someone else because “he’s loyal. He was loyal to me. He’s a loyal guy. He sticks with things. And he knows firsthand, anybody would have been attacked and anybody picked would’ve been attacked, because he’s always attacked.”
The same day that Conway registered as a foreign agent, she shared an image of herself visiting Trump and being gifted a blue MAGA hat with the caption, “Quite the visit today with @realDonaldTrump in #NJ. Bonus: the news blue #MAGA 45-47 hat from the man behind the movement. #winners.”
Quite the visit today with @realDonaldTrump in #NJ. Bonus: the new blue #MAGA 45-47 hat from the man behind the movement. #winners pic.twitter.com/BIpmyZqyXz
— Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) August 2, 2024
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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