Kellyanne Conway Allegedly 'Forgot She Was on the Record' and Roasted Everyone at the White House
A new book about the Trump White House by conservative author Ronald Kessler is alleging that Kellyanne Conway—who once floated using lie detectors on White House staff to find leakers—is the top leaker in the White House.
Kessler, who was on CNN’s State of the Union today, said the book, Inside the Trump White House: Changing the Rules of the Game, has “juicy tidbits,” one of which that the “number one leaker” is Conway. (Well, not exactly: Kessler originally identified the “number one leaker” in the White House as Hope Hicks, before Jake Tapper corrected him.)
“While I was interviewing Kellyanne at the White House, she forgot that she was on the record,” Kessler told Tapper. “And she started lashing into Reince Priebus. She said the most mean and cutting and obviously untrue things about Reince. I didn’t include them in the book because they were so unfair.” Finally, a journalist willing to protect the most marginalized among us: Reince Priebus.
“She also lit into Jared and Ivanka,” Kessler added, “saying that they leak against Steve Bannon. I know that White House aides have seen texts she has sent to other journalists dissing her colleagues, leaking material. So if you wonder why there are so many leaks out of the White House, one reason is Kellyanne is the number one leaker.”