Cliff Sims: Kellyanne Conway is like Cruella de Vil, if Cruella leaked all the time

Kellyanne Conway

Have you ever heard of Cliff Sims? I don’t have the BEST recollection of names and faces, but I’m pretty good and I drew an utter blank at that name. Apparently, Cliff Sims worked for Trump White House for 500 days, and he wrote a book about it. The book is Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House. Personally, I don’t give a sh-t about a person who CHOSE to work for this Nazi administration for more than a year. If you’re that stupid, you should be under indictment, not shilling for your tell-all book. But still, why not talk about these “exclusive excerpts” given to Vanity Fair? Eh. According to Cliff Sims, Kellyanne Conway was venal, spiteful and she leaked all the time. SHOCKING.

The first part of the excerpt is just setting up how Trumpworld is bizarro-land where unhinged white supremacists are constantly stabbing each other in the back. Kellyanne Conway’s “counselor to the president” job is described as “a job with no fixed responsibilities… she was able to continue being the president’s pit bull on TV—a job that never goes out of fashion in Trumpworld—and otherwise just dabble in areas that piqued her interest.” She was also “predictably resentful of both Ivanka and Jar­ed’s immovable status in Trump’s orbit.” Kellyanne understood that Trump’s main goal was to be talked about, to be famous, to evoke strong opinions either way. Trump is also obsessed with finding out who is “leaking” various stories about him, and he loved to try to bargain with journalists to find out their sources. Well, Cliff Sims has an idea of who was the Ground Zero Leaker the whole time: Kellyanne, who is compared to Cruella de Vil in this book. He went to her office one time and she ordered him to work on her Macbook, which was tied to her phone, so he could inadvertently read all of her iMessages as she was sending them. This is what happened:

Over the course of 20 minutes or so, she was having simultaneous conversations with no fewer than a half­-dozen reporters, most of them from outlets the White House frequently trashed for publishing “fake news.” Jour­nalists from The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Politico, and Bloomberg were all popping up on the screen. And these weren’t policy conversations, or attempts to fend off attacks on the president. As I sat there trying to type, she bashed Jared Kushner, Reince Priebus, Steve Bannon, and Sean Spicer, all by name. (“The real leakers, past and present, get much more positive press than I do. While it’s rare, I prefer to knife people from the front, so they see it coming,” Conway said in a statement shortly after publication. According to a source familiar with the situation, the statement was drafted in consultation with her husband, George Conway.)

She also recounted private conversations she’d had with the president, during which, at least in her telling, she’d convinced him to see things her way, which she said was a challenge when you’re deal­ing with someone so unpredictable and unrestrained. She wasn’t totally trashing the president, at least as the Morning Joe crew described it, but she definitely wasn’t painting him in the most favorable light. She was talking about him like a child she had to set straight. I was sitting there, watching this, totally bewildered. I was supposed to be writing a statement, defending her against accusations that she had done almost exactly what I was watch­ing her do that very moment.

When Fox & Friends co-host Abby Huntsman later asked Kellyanne about allegations that she was the “No. 1 leaker” in the administration, she sidestepped the question, only saying that “leakers get great press,” and adding that “one day, Abby, I will have my say.”

[From Vanity Fair]

He could have called this book Team of Vipers: We Been Knew. While we didn’t know the exact specifics of how and where Kellyanne Conway was leaking, of course we knew that all of these a–holes are constantly leaking and talking sh-t about each other. What pisses me off is that the big-name journalists are still, to this day, contacting Kellyanne to get her take and sourcing her as an “unnamed senior aide to the president.” It’s lazy f–king journalism, because journalists are more interested in the circus of the presidency rather than the actual pain and suffering and fascism. They can’t see the forest for the trees because they’ve created this 24-hour newscycle where every political story is disposable, with maybe a two-hour shelf life.

Kellyanne Conway

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  1. Aims says:

    I seriously question anyone’s ethics who works for Trump. Knowing full well that this administration is corrupt, racist. So yes I believe that she’s dirty, as well as anyone who is associated with this trash.

    I’m not sure if it was talked about, but on a related note. Her husband has publicly put Trump on blast for being a liar. So there’s that.

  2. Tomato8o says:

    This is disgusting, but the first thing I thought of when I read “leaked all the time” was pee, because there was a profile of her once (I think in NYMag) where she had a line about how having children affects the urgency of peeing later.

  3. Kitten says:

    JESUS HER FACE O_O
    And I’m sorry but she would benefit from a good wig. Maybe Melania’s wig person can help her out.

    I don’t really care for her husband but I’m fascinated with their relationship. Like, how can someone like George, who is still somewhat objective and still semi-rooted in reality, stay married to a delusional woman who perpetually lies for a living?

    *shivers* She is just such a VILE piece of shit, like everyone in Trump’s orbit.

    • Jamie says:

      It’s a game to them. That’s all. They’ve set themselves up to be the cockroaches that survive the nuclear meltdown.
      Neither Kellyanne nor George gives a shit about the real people who are being hurt every day in this administration. George just talks a good game on Twitter. He doesn’t give a damn that the rule of law is being damaged any day. He’ll still pull in $500/hour for himself and his firm.

    • vava says:

      She is so vile.
      Has she had work done on that face of hers? She doesn’t look as rough as usual.

      • NightOwl says:

        He is no saint and it’s a game to them so they survive post-Trump. Remember, George Conway rep’ed Paula Jones v Clinton and per the WaPo, funneled details to Drudge and worked with Ann Coulter. He arguably was one of the first to set the norms on fire.

    • Ann says:

      Yeah, that face is all I think when I see her. I feel like her soul must have GVHD after having a voluntary Trump-transplant so her skin is responding by melting off her face. A good face lift could do this woman wonders if it wasn’t doomed to be thwarted by all that evil raging in her veins.

  4. Dttimes2 says:

    Bet she is still getting paid diring the shut down

  5. Beth says:

    I totally believe Meth Barbie has been a leaker, maybe even the biggest leaker in the Trump administration. Listening to her talking word salad makes my head spin. She can’t keep her facts (alternative facts ) straight during interviews, and pivots from one subject to another

    • molly says:

      If she wasn’t evil incarnate and could harness her powers for good instead of evil, she’s be quite the force. Spicer still had a piece of his soul that kept him from going all in on the lies, and Sarah Sanders is too unpleasant to spar with. Kellyanne has zero shame and a joker’s grin. She’s quite good at the spin.

  6. Regina Falangie says:

    “Meth Barbie”!!!! Bwa hahahahahahahaha!!!

  7. CairinaCat says:

    Did you see Anderson Cooper’s piece on her about the wall??

  8. Jumpingthesnark says:

    Between this and her husband on twitter, I think that they are both trying the maximize their power and influence under trump AND hedge their bets for after the inevitable trump downfall. Watch, they’ll be spinning it like they were the good guys on the inside. In a setting of opportunistic and craven liars, the Conways are the worst!

  9. GigiC says:

    She still gets paid by the government while everyone else suffers through this. She needs to be using some of that money to fix her failed eyebrow lift and for a new wig. Crypt keeper looking busted af