Vanity Fair: Kellyanne Conway reportedly ID'd as leaker 'bad-mouthing' White House to press

[Quixote1818]

“SHE WAS A CARTOON VILLAIN BROUGHT TO LIFE”: A FORMER TRUMP AIDE RECALLS CONWAY’S LEAKING TACTICS IN THE WEST WING VIPER’S NEST
In this exclusive excerpt from Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House, a former Trump aide recalls the leaking, the gossiping, and the infighting that made Kellyanne Conway such a formidable player in the White House.

BY CLIFF SIMS
JANUARY 23, 2019 6:29 PM

The inner circle of Trumpworld was not always a pretty picture. Too often, it was a portrait of venality, stubbornness, and selfishness. We leaked. We schemed. We backstabbed. Some of us told ourselves it was all done in the service of a higher calling—to protect the president, to deliver for the people. But usually it was for ourselves. Most of us came to Washington convinced of the justice of our cause and the righteousness of our principles, certain that our moral compasses were true. But proximity to power changes that. Donald Trump changes that. The once-clear lines—between right and wrong, good and evil, light and darkness—were eroded, until only a faint wrinkle remained.

A particular case in point involves Kellyanne Conway, who had the title of Trump’s 2016 campaign manager. (Though it was really Jared Kushner, if anyone, who was actually in charge.) As counselor to the president, Kellyanne managed to land a job with no fixed responsibilities. “What exactly does Kellyanne do?” was a question people asked all the time. So she was able to continue being the president’s pit bull on TV—a job that never goes out of fashion in Trumpworld—and otherwise just dabble in areas that piqued her interest. She would later focus her efforts on the opioid crisis and veterans’ issues, but early on she was content—very content—to sit back, go on TV, and let rivals eat one another alive. And she was predictably resentful of both Ivanka and Jar­ed’s immovable status in Trump’s orbit.

More: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/01/trump-aide-recalls-conways-leaking-tactics-in-the-west-wing-vipers-nest

[no_hypocrisy]

1. And Omarossa took the heat for duplicity . . . . .

Rank amateur compared to Conway.

[vlyons]

2. Conway sounds like a grifter to me

A new age feather-bedder on the Trump gravy claim. Get a high-paying job requiring little real work.

[tenderfoot]

5. I think that her husband attacking Trump is a way out for her.

He's doing the dirty work so she can get out alive, so-to-speak.

Both are insincere.

[UTUSN]

3. Well al*righty* then!1

[dem4decades]

4. Her's weren't leaks, they were alternative leaks.

[dawg day]

6. Brilliant Conway let the author use her computer with text messages popping up there--

And since her iMes­sage account was tied to both her phone and her laptop, which she must not have even considered, I could inadvertently see every conversation she was having.

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.

I just have to say it-- I always thought she was a major leaker. There are others, but she's got to be one of the main ones.

Will she be fired?

[Quixote1818]

9. I kind of thought it was her too because of her husband

There may be other leakers.

[pecosbob]

7. I feel like pouring bleach into my eyes after reading that

Republicans always complain about the poor being moochers...I say that this parasitical political consultant/lobbyist class is the real cancer on the body politic.

[LuvNewcastle]

10. They are.

This country would be a hell of a lot better off if we went back to having an hour of news every day and all of those pundits on cable news got real jobs. It’s too much fucking drama and it isn’t healthy.

[JI7]

8. KellyAnne Conway resents Trump for "winning" the election and taking away her huge Deals

she was going to get for tv, books, and other shit when it was thought he would lose.

she had a positive reputation and people were complimenting her for doing what she could and then Trump "won" and her continuing defense of him has turned her into a joke .

[JHB]

11. "The inner circle of Trumpworld was not always a pretty picture"?

When was it ever a "pretty picture"?

It's mainly varied between butt-ugly and gogonesque triple-butt ugly.