More Kellyanne Conway False Claims: ‘Because of What the Press Is Doing Now to Me, I Have Secret Service Protection’

Conway Tries to Play the Victim

Kellyanne Conway says she now has Secret Service protection, and is blaming the media for her needing it. The White House advisor who managedÂ Donald Trump’s presidential campaign claims she’s received mail with white powder, suggesting that prompted her being given a protection detail, The Hill reports.Â

Conway retold Fox News’ Sean Hannity Monday night the story of a White House pool reporter who mistakenly reported via the press pool email that the the bust of Martin Luther King, Jr. had been removed from the Oval Office on Friday. He later said a Secret Service had been blocking his view of it.

But she did attempt to appear magnanimous, saying the Trump administration “invited” the press into the Oval Office to witness the new president signing his first executive orders, as if it were a favor to them and the American people, which it is not. It is an expectation. She also said she would not share the press pool reporter’s name “because I don’t want him to get attacked like I do,” Conway claimed. His name is very public, especially since he tweeted an apology to White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer.

“Because of what the press is doing now to me, I have Secret Service protection,â€ Conway said. â€œWe have packages delivered to my house with white substances. That is a shame.â€

The Trump administration has repeatedly been using that mistake, for which the reporter both immediately corrected himself and apologized, as “evidence” the press isn’t being fair to them. Spicer brought up the bust report in a rant during his Saturday and Monday afternoon press briefing.

Conway did not specify what “the press is doing now to” her, but she could be referring to the media’s recent shift of refusing to publish her lies without debunking them. The press has also shifted, and is now more willing to call President Trump’s lies, “lies.”

In fact, on Sunday Conway now infamously told “Meet the Press” Sean Spicer wasn’t lying about President Trump’s crowd sizes at the inauguration, he was merely offering “alternative facts,” which led the media to further crack down on the administration’s lies, and led people on social media to mock them, making clearÂ “alternative facts” are lies.

But it’s disingenuos to suggest the the media is to blame if she is receiving mail or packages with white substances in them.Â

The Hill notes Valerie Jarrett and David Axelrod, President Barack Obama’s top advisors, also had Secret Service protection.