I'm talking more about her payment for being campaign manager. Any figures on that? Not to mention the clout she may have gained from pulling off what many considered impossible. That will pay dividends later. Her working in the White House now is more about clout.
NYT: Kellyanne Conway Said She Needed a Shower After Speaking for Trump
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I'm talking more about her payment for being campaign manager. Any figures on that? Not to mention the clout she may have gained from pulling off what many considered impossible. That will pay dividends later. Her working in the White House now is more about clout.
Bruce Springsteen
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Agreed, Morning Joe hosts just destroyed their integrity with running to the press to say these off the record remarks
andythinkpad
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How many shower Melania take daily?
SocksAndShoes
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This makes her worse, in my eyes. She helped elect a man who has no respect for her gender. She's an awful pile of human garbage.
TangoAlphaLima
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But she could make more in the private sector. This can't just be about greed.
I imagine it's more about power and fame. She probably loves having Trump's ear and appearing on cable news all the time.
"Conway earned, through her company, slightly more than $800,000 in business income for her work in 2016."
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/01/what-trumps-top-white-house-employees-are-worth.html
She made good money as campaign manager, no doubt. But she won't even make her 2016 wages in 4 years of working in Trump's White House.
Lmao
Literally invented "alternative facts" and continued harming our democracy. Good luck washing that off, Conway.
ChemicalCutthroat
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Schadenfreude, my favorite flavor.
Isn't that a paraphrasing of a Churchhill quote?
smokeymicpot
Beat EviLore at pool.
Don't think she was the full factor on why Trump got elected. Chances are it was not fully about the money anyway.
SomewhatGroovy
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SocksAndShoes
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Dude, we get it. Rich people love money. It's why they have a ton of it. Why would she make these remarks out loud to people if it wasn't about the money?
She had no problem with supporting him, giving him a platform, and tying herself to his cabinet. She and every other staff member can eat shit.
polyh3dron
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I mean, you could just read it on her, due to the sheer ridiculousness of the things she would say to defend Trump. What piques my curiosity is why they would come out and say all of this now. Like, what changed to make Mika and Joe want to out her like this?
Lightning_Roller
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Agreed. You chose cold hard cash over your own dignity, Kelly. Own that choice.
It's cable news. There is not much integrity there to begin with.
now she has zero credibility. thanks to gaffes like "alternative facts" and SNL tearing her apart. shes probably up there in having influenced the election with wikileaks and comeys letter, she wrote the bible on how to spin what trump does and says and was the first campaign manager that actually brought in an increase in poll numbers for him
she probably isnt doing it for the money as in the salary shes making in her current position, but the esteem of having that title on your resume can lead to millions down the road for her polling companies
It was an easy payday, she's a professional pundit, and she didn't expect him to win.
Remember, she spent some effort publicly signaling that she didn't want a WH job post-election. Seemed like an attempt to save face while looking for a back door out of there. Who knows what motivated her to actually stay on.
TangoAlphaLima
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Power, fame, attention. The same reasons Trump is doing it. It's not like he's in it for the money.
EDIT: Also, she made these comments when she was on Trump's campaign. It doesn't explain why she still does it now for a lot less money.
Oh hi Bruce. Thanks for getting the conversation back to "unmasking" where it belongs. We almost had to discuss the president's representative confessing to disgusting lies on his behalf. Trivial compared to the importance of leaders.
Walter White
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SocksAndShoes
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There's a very large part of him that's in it for the money. You don't suddenly lose your love of sweet sweet currency just because you're on tv.
See: all his remaining business deals he refuses to give up, his focus on Mar a Logo, Etc.
EatinOlives
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180 grand isn't that little considering all you have to do is talk out your ass.
Conway's rhetoric isn't intelligent, or logically sound, or adheres to any set of rules. She's off the cuff 99% of the time. If you can bullshit about anything and can be given 180 grand a year for just rambling on camera, it's not surprising someone who doesn't value their scruples would take that job.
1) I don't necessarily believe this gossipy heresay.
2) I don't give a shit. It doesn't matter how much you don't believe in it. You actively campaigned for this. You put all of your effort into making this happen. That makes you absolutely no different from Donald Trump himself. In fact, Trump never could have done it without you. You ARE Donald Trump. Fuck you for selling the rest of us out for your "summer vacation."
2) I don't give a shit. It doesn't matter how much you don't believe in it. You actively campaigned for this. You put all of your effort into making this happen. That makes you absolutely no different from Donald Trump himself. In fact, Trump never could have done it without you. You ARE Donald Trump. Fuck you for selling the rest of us out for your "summer vacation."
We can talk about both, can't we?
Emerson
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I'm sure NDAs were involved.
I prefer your more important angle. That Joe is gossipy. Not that Trump continually lied through her.
Did you know he and Mika are an item? Fake news media won't talk about it!
Everyone knows whoever dies with the most money wins.
SenjutsuSage
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Hope you're joking. This is EXACTLY what they should be doing when someone has demonstrated themselves to be as dishonest and as disrespectful as this group in the white house has.
ramoisdead
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Kellyanne is going to learn now that no amount of showers are going to wash away the stink of this presidency.
She'll always be associated with this throughout history.
She'll always be associated with this throughout history.
TangoAlphaLima
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He refuses to give them up, but let's not act like being in the White House is necessarily a benefit to his brand. He's amazingly polarizing, and plenty of people will refuse to stay at a Trump property because of that. I'm not sure there are enough Trump supporters to make up for those losses.
Except she could easily make more in the private sector. There are plenty of GOP nutjobs that would hire her.
Bitch Pudding
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"Would you sleep with me for one million dollars?"
"No, of course not!"
"Oh come on, please! I really need the money!"
GlitchyDegree
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Still a horrible person, in fact this makes everything she has said & done worse.
So she's exactly like Trump. A bald faced liar and bullshitter.
Considering what has transpired since January I strongly suspect the morning Joe hosts are basically signalling to everyone else how much of liar Conway is because they had a hard time accepting the cnognotive dissonance between her off the record statements and her decision to go back to Trump's inner circle after winning the election. She had a career as the wunderkind who got Trump stable enough to be elected. She was set for life in her career. Her decision to go to the whitehouse betrays her real motivations and darker tendencies.
NullPointer
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It really does.
If she was a blind true believer I could at least pity her.
I always wondered why he had that empty jar sitting around.
da Fuck?
When you feel personally wronged you're going to put your career at risk. I would say the damage they are doing to Conway is worth it in the long run.
ChemicalCutthroat
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Let's be honest, most Trump supporters can't afford to stay in his ridiculous properties. Unless they give a 90% discount for wearing a MAGA hat.
I'm not a fan of the trend of using "on the record" to spread blatant lies and misinformation. Respect the dignity granted by "on the record" or don't be surprised if you taint any respect for "off the record" in the process. One doesn't really work without the other.
SocksAndShoes
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This. The people supporting his brand are his rich buddies, not Joe Schmo living off an oxygen tank yelling about "BUT HER EMAILS!"
Those unfortunate fools just associate Trump with some perceived quality.