She Won’t Come Out of This Well

Kellyanne Conway, new campaign manager for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, speaks to reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Kellyanne Conway got a shot today on CNBC to answer why her purportedly post-pivot boss is still insulting and issuing threats against TV personalities. It didn’t go well, though in Conway’s defense, I’m not sure what she’s supposed to say.

Here was her response: “Well, two different things in there. Quickly, I feel that people expect Donald Trump to be the who takes on the chin all these criticisms and he’s never able to respond in kind. He rarely draws first blood. I’ve never said about him. He says he’s a counter-puncher …”

Let’s remember: he bashed a prominent female journalist/talk show host with a litany of fairly cliched misogynistic smears and then threatened to expose a rumored relationship between her and her co-host.

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