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demmiblue

(36,751 posts)
Thu Jun 25, 2020, 09:01 AM Jun 2020

Kellyanne Conway Defends Trump's Use of 'Kung Flu' by Attacking Asian-American Reporter

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway flip-flopped on her previous position that the use of the racist term “Kung Flu” is “highly offensive,” defending President Donald Trump’s use of it on Wednesday while bizarrely attacking an Asian-American reporter for not having the “courage” to out a White House official who said the phrase months ago.

During a White House driveway gaggle with reporters on Wednesday morning, Conway was immediately confronted by NBC News reporter Monica Alba over the president’s recent habit of tossing out the phrase and Conway’s March denouncement of the term, which the Trump adviser called “wrong” while noting she is “married to an Asian.”

Conway, meanwhile, turned the question back around on the press corps, seemingly placing the blame on CBS News reporter Weijia Jiang, who reported in March that a White House official referred to the novel coronavirus as the “Kung Flu” to her face.

“I also asked Weijia to reveal to us who said it, I think that would have gone a long way,” Conway said to Alba before saying the reporter should confront Jiang.

Alba, however, pressed forward and asked Conway if she would react to Trump’s repeated use of the loaded term, prompting the presidential aide to claim that Trump was merely making it “very clear” that the virus originated in China. Conway then pressed Jiang to reveal her source.

“I still invite you up here to tell us who said that,” Conway taunted the reporter. “And I think that that would be a very important revelation for us. That’s not a source for you to protect. That’s somebody who shouldn’t have said that, and you’re claiming did say that, and we still don’t know who that was.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/kellyanne-conway-defends-trumps-use-of-kung-flu-attacks-asian-american-reporter-weijia-jiang




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no_hypocrisy

(45,774 posts)
1. Wouldn't it be more accurate and less inflammatory to re-brand the situation as
Thu Jun 25, 2020, 09:05 AM
Jun 2020

"the virus that allegedly originated from China"?

BTW, Trump's "Kung Flu" denigrates and ridicules the ancient and revered art of combat that the Chinese are very proud of.

bobbieinok

(12,858 posts)
3. Anyone else find it stunningly bizarre her gfather was a mafia leader?
Thu Jun 25, 2020, 09:08 AM
Jun 2020

Trump with gigantic gangster ties sure knows where to look for 'help'

bobbieinok

(12,858 posts)
6. When I first read about her mafia heritage, I thought someone was joking, the Onion maybe?
Thu Jun 25, 2020, 09:19 AM
Jun 2020

Never thought the Mafia would be running the WH and the US govt

I remember there were major US political leaders who claimed in 50s(I think) that the Mafia had been destroyed.

I remember as a kid reading the coverage in Life or Look about a major raid on a meeting on the East Coast of all the leaders of the gangs. Many, many photos of guys in hand-cuffs being shoved in cars

yellowcanine

(35,692 posts)
7. She is off the rails ignorant. We don't have to ask who is
Thu Jun 25, 2020, 09:20 AM
Jun 2020

using the term. Trump used it, several times in two successive rallies. It will replace "Lock her up" as a chant at Trump rallies.

jcgoldie

(11,584 posts)
8. Why does she need to reveal who said it first...
Thu Jun 25, 2020, 09:22 AM
Jun 2020

The FUCKING PRESIDENT said it to tens of thousands of people for fucks sake!

CTyankee

(63,771 posts)
10. Joe and Mika banned her from Morning Joe a long time ago.
Thu Jun 25, 2020, 09:51 AM
Jun 2020

I hope that hurt Kellyanne's fee fees but I doubt she has fee fees in the first place...

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