{"id":35347,"date":"2017-08-06T14:30:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T21:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=35347"},"modified":"2017-08-06T14:42:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T21:42:45","slug":"benghazi-watch-kellyanne-conway-resort-to-classic-dodge-to-avoid-defending-trumps-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=35347","title":{"rendered":"BENGHAZI? Watch Kellyanne Conway Resort to Classic Dodge to Avoid Defending Trump&#8217;s Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The guardians of Donald Trump&#8217;s floundering presidency are finding it ever more difficult carry out their task. They now have to deal with a special prosecutor ramping up investigations of the President. Grand juries are being impaneled in Washington, Virginia, and New York. And a flurry of new lies erupt from the White House every day. What&#8217;s a dedicated Trump shill supposed to do?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/GOP\/conway-banned.jpg\" alt=\"Kellyanne Conway\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33902\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/1831950640153056\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, Sunday morning on ABC&#8217;s <em>&#8220;This Week&#8221;<\/em> we may have found out. Kellyanne Conway was interviewed by George Stephanopoulos about the blatant contradictions by Trump and company about their interactions with Russia. He summarized the situation and asked Conway for her explanation for the various accounts (video below):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;The White House and the President&#8217;s surrogates have told conflicting stories. First they said there no contacts with Russians. Then it turned out there were at least eighteen contacts. The story broke in the New York Times saying the President was involved in the drafting of his son Don, Jr.&#8217;s misleading response to that meeting he had with Russians during the campaign. And Jay Sekulow, the President&#8217;s attorney, came on GMA and told me the President was not involved.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stephanopoulos noted that the original statement and the one offered after the Times story were <em>&#8220;very different answers in the space of two weeks.&#8221;<\/em> But Conway&#8217;s response evaded the question to say that the meeting was of no consequence. She continues to deny the consequences of just agreeing to meet with Russian operatives to obtain campaign information. Even if nothing was obtained, the effort itself was an attempt at collusion. Conway added that Trump&#8217;s involvement in drafting Junior&#8217;s response was merely <em>&#8220;weighing in as a father.&#8221;<\/em> Of course. Every father has had that experience where they help their adult son to lie about meetings with America&#8217;s enemies.<\/p>\n<p>Stephanopoulos persisted to challenge her on the shifting facts. He noted that the first statement was totally false and that the President and his lawyers <em>&#8220;didn&#8217;t tell the truth.&#8221;<\/em> To which Conway replied with a series of alleged falsehoods from the distant past. She raised the matter of whether or not people could keep their doctors under ObamaCare. And then she actually brought up Benghazi and tried to make that relevant to this discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s not get into a debate as to whether those were actually examples of untrue statements. The main point here is that Conway was utterly incapable of defending the lies from Trump&#8217;s White House. So reached into the past hoping to grasp a rhetorical lifeline. Stephanopoulos&#8217; complaint that Conway was just changing the subject fell on deaf ears. When he asked if Trump could be truthful about the Russia investigations, Conway swerved to repeat Trump&#8217;s baseless assertion that the whole thing was fabricated.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of the interview, Conway didn&#8217;t once respond directly to the charge that Trump and his surrogates lied. There are obvious differences between their initial accounts of the meetings and the facts that they later conceded. Plus, the false claim that Trump had nothing to do with Junior&#8217;s first statement remains unexplained. And Conway&#8217;s flagrant evasions only serve to highlight how overwhelmed she and her associates are.<\/p>\n<p>They are quite simply out of answers. The tsunami of lies that flow from Trump have exhausted his defenders. And since they have emptied their arsenal of arguments, be prepared to hear more from yesteryear&#8217;s classics like Benghazi. And if they get desperate enough they might even revive Obama&#8217;s birth certificate and Monica Lewinski.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lopWmU4b-ag?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The guardians of Donald Trump&#8217;s floundering presidency are finding it ever more difficult carry out their task. They now have to deal with a special prosecutor ramping up investigations of the President. Grand juries are being impaneled in Washington, Virginia, and New York. And a flurry of new lies erupt from the White House every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,1200,16],"tags":[1091,554,269,1183,1211],"class_list":["post-35347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-politics","category-wankery","tag-benghazi","tag-donald-trump","tag-george-stephanopoulos","tag-kellyanne-conway","tag-russia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/conway-banned.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-9c7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35010,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=35010","url_meta":{"origin":35347,"position":0},"title":"HUH? 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