Kellyanne Conway, Who Constantly Defends Bullier-in-Chief, Praises Keaton Jones: We Need to ‘Lead by Example’ for Kids

Bullier-in-Chief’s Top Enabler and Defender Shouldn’t Get a Pass for Trying to Clean Up Her Record Like This

Keaton Jones has rightly taken the nation’s heart. In a video his mother posted the tearful Tennessee student explains how he feels when his fellow classmates bully him. 

“They make fun of my nose. They call me ugly. They say I have no friends,” Keaton tells his mom in the car, adding that they even “put milk on me and put ham down my clothes, throw bread on me.”

“Just out of curiosity, why do they bully? What’s the point of it?” Keaton says in the video. “Why do you find joy in taking innocent people and finding a way to be mean to them? It’s not okay.”

“I don’t like that they do it to me. And I, for sure, don’t like that they do it to other people, cause it’s not okay!” he exclaims. “People that are different don’t need to be criticized about it. It’s not their fault.”

Celebrities and sports stars across the country are speaking out, many directly to Keaton, offering words of support and encouragement. 

Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway, who not only helped enable America’s top bully to become president, but regularly defends and excuses his bullying, on Monday tried to join the legion of stars and regular people who have sought to support Keaton and his message that bullying is “not okay.”

We (hopefully) can all agree bullying is wrong, especially when the targets are those less able to defend themselves, or those who, as Keaton said, are “different,” like, say, a New York Times reporter with a physical disability.

In January, after Meryl Streep’s scathing and brilliant speech denouncing then president-elect Trump, which included criticizing him for mocking The New York Times’ Serge Kovaleski, Kellyanne Conway set out to defend Trump at all costs. Just one example:

Time and time against Conway has defended Trump’s bullying.

Bullying is wrong. People who defend bullies, who have made a career out of defending bullies, don’t get to turn around and denounce bullying in a shameless attempt to cleanse their terrible record.

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