A few minutes ago, the Washington Post’s Josh Dawsey quoted two anonymous White House surrogates who said Kellyanne Conway “compared judge [Kavanaugh] to ‘elite media figures’ like Les Moonves & Harvey Weinstein who have been accused of sexual harassment/assault:
Kellyanne Conway just defended Brett Kavanaugh on a call with White House surrogates, urged them to defend his nomination. Compared judge to "elite media figures" like Les Moonves & Harvey Weinstein who have been accused of sexual harassment/assault, per two people on call.
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) September 24, 2018
Can we just say that it’s impossible for us to believe that Kellyanne Conway said anything close to that? Dawsey then tried to clean things up, tweeting gobbledygook that “Kellyanne said that none of the accusations about Kavanaugh were not proven & that so many accusations about elite media figures were worse & proven”:
Kellyanne said that none of the accusations about Kavanaugh were not proven & that so many accusations about elite media figures were worse & proven. https://t.co/TQNW20PJ0q
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) September 24, 2018
Dawsey then offered up a third version of the call:
Call with surrogates was for Kellyanne/WH to make clear that White House supports Kavanaugh, that McConnell world is going through with nomination & that the accusations are not proven — compared to media figures & others who have done far worse.
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) September 24, 2018
And now for what really happened, via Kellyanne herself:
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Your leakers need to take better notes. My comparison is to the hypocritical way some in media have covered unverified teenage claims about Judge Kavanaugh & yet protected adult media men who raped threatened & harmed women for decades. https://t.co/hILZG4pDLw
— Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) September 24, 2018
Bam.
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