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Kellyanne Conway Denies Comey ‘Swung’ Election to Trump After She Said He Did: ‘Add Sarcasm’

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Kellyanne Conway has issued a terse and sharp denial that she told ABC News Monday morning Jim Comey “swung” the election for Donald Trump. Many have strongly suggested the polling numbers certainly make it appear that Comey’s late October announcement the FBI was investigating emails that appeared on a laptop shared by Anthony Weiner and Human Abedin cost Hillary Clinton the election.

“This guy swung an election,” Conway told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos, while standing in the White House press briefing room while discussing partisan politics. “He thought the wrong person would win.”

Conway swung back on Twitter, insisting she was misunderstood.

In response to a tweet that says, “Conway on Comey: “This guy swung an election,” Conway tweeted:

But Conway’s admitting Comey’s actions turned the course of the election to her candidate is what’s making headlines.

Earlier Monday morning Conway also pushed back, insisting what she said is not what she said:

Some responses via Twitter:

 

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House Republicans Scorched for Walking Out Rather Than Vote on Bill to Help Millions of Women Veterans

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House Republicans decided to walk out en masse Tuesday afternoon, rather than vote on a bill before the Veterans Committee that would haver helped two million women vets.

Rep. Mark Takano (D-CA), who is the chairman of the committee, posted video of his colleagues exiting the room:

“My Republican colleagues had a seat at the table every step of the way,” Chairman Takano said in a statement. “Instead of bringing forth meaningful, productive additions to legislation that will improve the lives of women veterans, they added toxic, partisan amendments – none of which worked to address how women veterans receive care.”

“By attempting to hijack a bipartisan bill backed by 14 Veteran Service Organizations- including 6 specifically advocating for women veterans, they have left these veterans behind.”

Republicans were attempting to attach poison pill amendments to the legislation. As The Military Times notes, one amendment focused on VA day care credentialing issues, another on veterans’ firearm possession rights.

This is just the latest attack by Republicans on the nation’s service members today. Tuesday morning many Republicans and those loyal to President Donald Trump attacked a Purple Heart recipient, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a current White House official who was on the president’s infamous July 25 call with the president of Ukraine.

Many on social media blasted the House Republicans for their actions:

 

 

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‘Pay Tribute to This President’: Conservatives on Fox News Call Eagles ‘Narcissistic’ Celebrities With a ‘God Complex’

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Conservative Fox News commentator Candace Owens on Wednesday blasted players on the Eagles NFL team and accused them of having a “god complex” because they declined an invitation to meet President Donald Trump at the White House.

During a panel discussion on Fox & Friends, Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, a pro-Trump super PAC, complained that “only in America” could football players win the Super Bowl and “not pay gratitude to our president.”

“Pay tribute to the greatest country in the history of the world, pay tribute to this president,” Kirk said.

Owens, who also works for Turning Point, argued that the players could not have a productive conversation with Trump because they are too “narcissistic.”

“What we’re really seeing is a window into the narcissistic, egotistical minds that is the celebrity brain,” Owens said of the Eagles players. “They actually think that they deserve more honor and more respect and more dignity than our veterans and our troops.”

“And they’re unwilling to work with this administration simply because they have a god complex,” she continued. “I think what President Trump did here is so great. It’s exactly what needed to happen; a separation between the church and the state, the celebrities and the White House, especially on the backs of Barack Obama, who is honoring these celebrities and making them feel that there were better than the American people.”

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade reminded Owens that NFL players are protesting systemic racism in law enforcement.

“I don’t take that problem to be one of the big problems that is facing the black community,” Owens replied, dismissing the players’ concerns. “The bigger problem is black on black crime. Until they’re willing to talk the deeper issues that are rooted in our communities, I will not take seriously this war on our police officers, who in fact save black lives.”

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Scaramucci: America Must ‘Evolve’ on Presidents Paying Porn Stars – Like Obama Did on Gay Marriage

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Former Trump communications director Anthony Scaramucci on Friday ineptly tried to defend the president’s handling of the Stormy Daniels affair by citing former President Barack Obama.

During an interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo, Scaramucci said that American society needed to “evolve” on the issue of accepting politicians who cheat on their wives just as Obama once evolved to fully support same-sex marriage.

“We have a cultural movement now to where we accept marriage equality,” Scaramucci said. “We should have a cultural movement again where public officials should be left alone in their personal lives to do what they do.”

Cuomo seemed taken aback that Scaramucci would compare the struggle to legalize same-sex marriage with President Donald Trump giving a porn star hush money and then lying about it.

“Anthony, the Obama example about marriage equality, that has nothing to do with paying off a porn star to keep quiet about an alleged affair,” Cuomo said.

Cuomo then pointed out to Scaramucci that this sort of lying isn’t just a one-off instance, but part of a much broader pattern. He cited the Trump team blatantly lying in 2016 about Melania Trump’s speech being plagiarized from a Michelle Obama speech as an example, and he noted that the campaign only admitted the truth when completely cornered on it by the press.

“They lied about it, and credibility matters,” Cuomo said.

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