Twitter Mocks Kellyanne Conway for Creating a ‘Massacre’ That Never Happened to Justify Trump’s Muslim Ban

Conway’s Reputation Takes Another Self-Inflicted Hit

Kellyanne Conway’s talents as a campaign manager and surrogate aren’t transferring well to the White House. There are repeated calls for news networks to ban her for lying on air. Her fabrication of a “massacre” Thursday night may put her one step closer to that end. 

On MSNBC’s “Hardball” Conway tried to justify President Donald Trump’s likely unconstitutional Muslim ban by telling Chris Matthews about America’s “Bowling Green massacre” carried out by two men from Iraq. To add to the intrigue and the Trump White House’s constant war against the media, Conway told Matthews the media didn’t cover it.

“I bet it’s brand new information to people that President Obama had a six-month ban on the Iraqi refugee program after two Iraqis came here to this country, were radicalized and they were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre,” Conway insisted. “Most people don’t know that because it didn’t get covered.”

The media didn’t cover it because it didn’t happen.

USA Today reports “there is an overwhelming consensus that there was no massacre at all. She appears to have come down with another case of the ‘alternative facts,'” and offer this possible event as the basis for Conway’s fabrication: 

Two Iraqi men who lived in Bowling Green, Ky., were indicted in 2011 and are serving life sentences for using improvised explosive devices against U.S. soldiers in Iraq and also for attempting to send weapons and money to Al-Qaeda in Iraq for the purpose of killing U.S. soldiers. The Department of Justice says so — right here.

But there is no mention of anything that resembles — in any way — violent offenses that can be characterized, even informally, as a “massacre” or terrorist attack in Bowling Green.

Naturally, tired of Conway’s repeated lies – let’s remember, she’s the impetus for the creation of #AlternativeFacts – Twitter had a field day mocking her. Take a look:

Some double mocked Conway and Trump, after the President this week appeared to suggest at a Black History Month event that abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who died in 1895 was still alive and doing a great job:

Others double mocked Conway and Sean Spicer:

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