Former President Donald Trump personally criticized Kellyanne Conway on Thursday morning for her new memoir, Here’s The Deal, in which she recalled telling the former president that she had definitely lost the 2020 election.
Although the first disapproval of Conway and his book from the Trump team came earlier this week through a spokesman, the latter thunderbolt was posted by Trump himself on his Social Truth platform.
“Kellyanne Conway never told me she thought we lost the election. If she had, she wouldn’t have dealt with her anymore, she’d been wrong, she could be back with her crazy husband,” Trump wrote, referring to George. Conway, his former advisor and campaign manager, fervently anti-Trump. “Writing books can make people say very strange things.”
In the book, Conway claims to have been one of the first advisers to tell Trump that he lost the election that he has since maintained that he was “stolen.” “He may have been the first person Donald Trump trusted in his inner circle who told him he had fallen short this time,” Conway wrote. She did not respond to a request for comment from The Daily Beast on Thursday.
Elsewhere in his memoirs, Conway pointed to the continually echoed Trump advisers and allowed his disastrous and baseless claim that the 2020 election was “rigged” and “stolen” by fraud. widespread electoral.
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“Instead of accepting responsibility for the loss, they kept playing and cheering wholeheartedly (in private, not on television) when Trump kept insisting he won,” he recalled. “The team failed on November 3, and then failed again. By not confronting the candidate with the sad reality of his situation, which had not appeared the evidence to support the claims, he was denied the evidence he was seeking and the respect due to him. Instead, pleading behind flatterer after a showman knelt in front of the Resolute Desk and promised the president goods they could not deliver.
This is not the first time the Trump team has thrown cold water on some of the statements in Conway’s book.
As reported exclusively by The Daily Beast over the weekend, Conway alleged that in October 2016, amid the aftermath of the Access Hollywood tapes, Trump considered abandoning the election. “It simply came to our notice then [of the race]? ” Conway recalled that Trump asked him on the night of October 8, as he reflected even more, “Will I lose? Will we lose? Can we still win?”
Following the report, Trump’s chief spokeswoman Liz Harrington told The Daily Beast that Conway’s claims about the conversation were “completely false.”
“I don’t need to be lecturing for spokespersons who weren’t there and certainly didn’t help him win,” Conway told The Daily Beast in response.