Source: Politics<\/p>\n
Former President Donald Trump is denying a key anecdote in a former aide\u2019s new book, saying he would have banished Kellyanne Conway from his inner circle if she had ever told him he lost the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n
In a Thursday morning post on his social media network, Truth Social, Trump refuted Conway\u2019s assertion that she \u201cmay have been the first person Donald Trump trusted in his inner circle who told him that he had come up short this time.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cKellyanne Conway never told me that she thought we lost the election. If she had, I wouldn\u2019t have dealt with her any longer \u2014 she would have been wrong \u2014 could go back to her crazy husband,\u201d Trump wrote. \u201cWriting books can make people say some very strange things. I wonder why?\u201d<\/p>\n
Conway served as Trump\u2019s 2016 campaign manager and was a counselor to the president in the White House. She has remained close to him since she left the administration at the end of summer 2020.<\/p>\n
For all their years working together, Trump has seldom criticized Conway even as he\u2019s attacked her husband, attorney George Conway, who helped start the anti-Trump organization the Lincoln Project and has been an outspoken critic of the ex-president. In her book, \u201cHere\u2019s the Deal,\u201d Conway writes about the challenges that came with her husband publicly feuding with her boss.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had already said publicly what I’d said privately to George: that his daily deluge of insults-by-tweet against my boss \u2014 or, as he put it sometimes, “the people in the White House” \u2014 violated our marriage vows to “love, honor, and cherish” each other,\u201d Conway writes.<\/p>\n
But it was Conway\u2019s admission that Trump lost the election that stood out most in the book\u2019s 506 pages. In stating the obvious, Kellyanne Conway became one of the few, currently close Trump allies to implicitly reject his false claims of a stolen election. Trump has continued to deny he lost in 2020 and has propagated that false notion among his millions of supporters.<\/p>\n
Claims from Trump and his allies about widespread, coordinated fraud, of which there has been no conclusive evidence, motivated a mob to storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in an effort to overturn the election results.<\/p>\n
In her book, Conway mainly points her finger at the Trump campaign for the loss in 2020, and says Trump and his over $1 billion in campaign funds were mismanaged in the final months of the election. But she also writes that voters have every right to question the election process.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened in 2020 can never fully be understood,\u201d Conway writes. \u201cThere has been no silver bullet that proves Donald Trump was the rightful winner as many have claimed.\u201d<\/p>\n