Donald Trump is denying the reports in Kellyanne Conway’s memoir which state that he would have banished her from his inner circle if she told him he lost the presidential election in 2020. Trump’s former senior counselor – who also served as his 2016 campaign manager and remained close to him until she resigned in August 2020 – made all sorts of confessions about her time in the White House in her memoir, Here’s the Deal: A Memoir, including an insight into Trump’s failed re-election bid.
“The team had failed on November 3, and they failed again afterward,” Conway wrote. “By not confronting the candidate with the grim reality of his situation, that the proof had not surfaced to support the claims, they denied him the evidence he sought and the respect he was due. Instead supplicant after sycophant after showman genuflected in front of the Resolute Desk and promised the president goods they could not deliver.” Conway also wrote that she “may have been the first person” in Trump’s team “who told him that he had come up short this time.”
However, that doesn’t seem to be how the former President remembers things, and he took to his social media network, Truth Social, on Thursday, May 26th, to have his say. "Kellyanne Conway never told me that she thought we lost the election," Trump wrote, before going on to criticize her husband, conservative attorney George Conway, who rose to fame for being one of the biggest Trump critics despite his own wife working so closely with him in the White House.
"If she had, I wouldn’t have dealt with her any longer — she would have been wrong — could go back to her crazy husband," he continued. "Writing books can make people say some very strange things. I wonder why? Got 12 million more votes than we did the first time, the most votes, by far, of any sitting President." Trump then continued to insist that the 2020 election was "rigged," adding that Democrats "used Covid to cheat and steal, and the evidence is massive and indisputable." He finished off his Truth Social message by urging everyone to "see 2000 Mules," a recent film by convicted felon and right-wing propagandist Dinesh D’Souza.
