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George the Retiree

(50 posts)
Thu Sep 15, 2016, 02:02 PM Sep 2016

Trump Campaign Manager Kellyanne Conway Once Called Americans ‘A Bunch of Pigs’

Source: Mediaite

by Tommy Christopher | 1:22 pm, September 15th, 2016

The Donald Trump campaign pulled out all the stops in expressing outrage at Hillary Clinton‘s “basket of deplorables” remark, even falsely asserting that it was directed at all Republican voters, but it turns out that some of those same people actually did denigrate much larger groups of voters than they’re accusing Hillary of.

Donald Trump himself said that fully half of Americans “don’t do anything” and are “carried” by the other half, and in video unearthed by Mother Jones‘ David Corn, Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway repeatedly called Americans “pigs” who deserved the consequences of the fiscal crises that befell the country in the waning days of the Bush administration. In an appearance on Fox Business’ Happy Hour in 2008, Conway scolded the host for being “unfair” to Wall Street:



A few days later, at a Council on Foreign Relations forum, Conway made the comparison again:



Read more: http://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-campaign-manager-kellyanne-conway-once-called-americans-a-bunch-of-pigs/



Didn't have time to pinpoint her nonsense in the second video, but, in the first one, KC's self-righteousness kicks in at about the 3-minute mark.
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Trump Campaign Manager Kellyanne Conway Once Called Americans ‘A Bunch of Pigs’ (Original Post) George the Retiree Sep 2016 OP
Yikes! I'd love for Maddow or O'Donnell to get ahold of these clips. catbyte Sep 2016 #1
Um... Oink. Hugin Sep 2016 #2
According to Trump, she's half right: women are pigs. Buzz Clik Sep 2016 #3
And just think she was in the employ of one Robert Mercer who funds Brietbart turbinetree Sep 2016 #4
‘A Bunch of Pigs’ Hayduke Bomgarte Sep 2016 #5
she is as ugly inside as Ann Coulter......it is a good race to the ugly box Angry Dragon Sep 2016 #6
I thought he only liked BillyBobBrilliant Sep 2016 #7
I think I can't stand Ann Coulter worse, but this KellyAnne is a piece of work. YOHABLO Sep 2016 #8
 

Buzz Clik

(38,437 posts)
3. According to Trump, she's half right: women are pigs.
Thu Sep 15, 2016, 02:05 PM
Sep 2016

Half right is a better percentage than Trump gets in his comments, so... no problem.

Hayduke Bomgarte

(1,965 posts)
5. ‘A Bunch of Pigs’
Thu Sep 15, 2016, 02:21 PM
Sep 2016

I can't argue with her, she is right.

The 'bunch of pigs' are also known as deplorables or drumpf supporters.

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