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Former President Donald Trump on Thursday morning personally lashed out at Kellyanne Conway over her new memoir, Right here’s The Deal, by which she recalled telling the ex-president that he definitively misplaced the 2020 election.
Whereas the primary Workforce Trump rebuking of Conway and her e-book got here earlier this week through a spokesperson, this newest lashing was posted by Trump himself to his Fact Social platform.
“Kellyanne Conway by no means informed me that she thought we misplaced the election. If she had I wouldn’t have dealt together with her any longer - she would have been improper - might return to her loopy husband,” Trump wrote, referring his former adviser and marketing campaign supervisor’s fervently anti-Trump husband George Conway. “Writing books could make individuals say some very unusual issues.”
Within the e-book, Conway claims to have been one of many first advisers to inform Trump that he misplaced the election he has since maintained was “stolen” from him. “I could have been the primary individual Donald Trump trusted in his inside circle who informed him that he had come up quick this time,” Conway wrote. She didn't reply to The Every day Beast’s request for touch upon Thursday.
Elsewhere in her memoir, Conway took goal on the advisers who surrounded Trump and who regularly echoed and enabled his disastrous and baseless declare that the 2020 election was “rigged” and “stolen” through widespread voter fraud.
“Slightly than accepting accountability for the loss, they performed alongside and lent full-throated encouragement (privately, not on TV) when Trump stored insisting he gained,” she recalled. “The workforce had failed on November 3, and so they failed once more afterward. By not confronting the candidate with the grim actuality of his state of affairs, that the proof had not surfaced to help the claims, they denied him the proof he sought and the respect he was due. As a substitute supplicant after sycophant after showman genuflected in entrance of the Resolute Desk and promised the president items they might not ship.”
This isn’t the primary time Workforce Trump has tossed chilly water on among the claims in Conway’s e-book.
As solely reported by The Every day Beast over the weekend, Conway alleged that, in October 2016, amid the fallout from the Entry Hollywood tapes, Trump mulled quitting the election. “Ought to I get out [of the race]?” Conway recalled Trump asking her on the evening of Oct. 8, whereas he additional contemplated: “Will I lose? Will we lose? Can we nonetheless win?”
Following that report, Trump’s chief spokesperson Liz Harrington informed The Every day Beast that Conway’s claims about that dialog had been “completely false.”
“I don’t should be lectured by spokespeople who weren’t there and definitely didn’t assist him win,” Conway informed The Every day Beast in response.
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