George Conway Says He Had Nothing to Do With Kellyanne’s Statement Firing Back at Cliff Sims in Vanity Fair

Tamar AuberJan 23rd, 2019, 11:33 pm
 

George Conway says he has nothing to do with a statement put out by his wife — Kellyanne Conway — firing back at former White House aide Cliff Sims, who called her a leaker in his explosive new book.

From the excerpt of Sims’new book Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House, as published by Vanity Fair on Wednesday:

Over the course of 20 minutes or so, she was having simultaneous conversations with no fewer than a half­-dozen reporters, most of them from outlets the White House frequently trashed for publishing “fake news.” Jour­nalists from The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Politico, and Bloomberg were all popping up on the screen. And these weren’t policy conversations, or attempts to fend off attacks on the president. As I sat there trying to type, she bashed Jared Kushner, Reince Priebus, Steve Bannon, and Sean Spicer, all by name.”

The excerpt also includes this note reflecting Conway’s statement:

(“The real leakers, past and present, get much more positive press than I do. While it’s rare, I prefer to knife people from the front, so they see it coming,” Conway said in a statement shortly after publication. According to a source familiar with the situation, the statement was drafted in consultation with her husband, George Conway.)

Vanity Fair likewise tweeted out this, noting George helped create the statement, according to the source:

In response, George — a frequent critic of Trump — said that he had never even seen the statement he was said to have helped draft. He added that only very recently was he even aware of the book.

In his book, Sims calls Kellyanne a “cartoon villain” and claims he caught her leaking. He also said Kellyanne’s White House agenda appears to “be survival over all others, including the president.”

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