Kellyanne Conway Says Author of Anonymous NYT Op-Ed Will ‘Confess Their Crime to the Wrong Person’

White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway told NBC’s Meet the Press’ Chuck Todd that the author of the anonymous NYT op-ed would tell the wrong person, “because cowards like criminals always tell the wrong person. They always confess their crime to the wrong person.”

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“These are people in books and in I guess anonymous Op-Eds — I’m not even sure they know the president or know John Kelly, it’s not clear to me — who are I think motivated by conceit and deceit. And that person is going to suss out himself or herself, because cowards like criminals always tell the wrong person. They always confess their crime to the wrong person.”

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It’s not a crime to author an op-ed and the New York Times would not have published an op-ed from someone who didn’t know the President, contrary to Conway’s claim. This is the kind of push back expected by a dictator, not a democratically elected president.

Conway echoed the Trump line that sussing out this person is a matter of national security, when it is obviously a matter of the President’s need for petty retribution:

“If this is somebody who in fact has access to national security information — and the president’s made clear he doesn’t want to be in a meeting with somebody who’s dealing with Russia China and North Korea who has access to that type of information — and then is is using it.”

Conway put the cherry on her alternative facts day by claiming this is all evidence that the President is a strong leader, dismissing talk of 25th Amendment in the White House as “such nonsense.”

“All of this is noise, ultimately, in history. Brett Kavanaugh will be there for decades,” the White House counselor to the man who is under FBI investigation, and whose own charitable foundation and business organization are under state and federal criminal investigation.

The real danger to national security is Donald Trump, and enabling that danger are all of the people who are standing by him, even if just in public, including Republicans in the House and Senate as well as Trump’s own cabinet. We are in danger, but — as horror movies go, it’s coming from *inside* the White House.

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