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demmiblue

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15. George Conway is the man at the center of everything
Thu Jul 18, 2024, 02:48 PM
Jul 2024
If it weren’t for George Conway, the nation might never have met Monica Lewinsky, and Donald Trump might never have met Kellyanne.

In the 1990s, George was a quiet but critical presence in what Hillary Clinton would dub a “vast right-wing conspiracy” — a hotshot young attorney working to undermine President Bill Clinton by offering secret legal aid to his accusers and reportedly funneling salacious details to the Drudge Report. “This one disgruntled New York lawyer almost single-handedly brought down the president,” David Brock, the conservative provocateur-turned-Clinton acolyte, later wrote.

Years later, George would marry Kellyanne Fitzpatrick, a publicity-prone Beltway pollster, and move with her to an apartment in Manhattan’s Trump World Tower. There, he caught the future president’s attention by arguing to the condo board against stripping Trump’s name from the exterior. The speech earned him an appreciative call from the mogul and an offer to join the board. He declined, but Kellyanne said she’d do it.

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His unpaid work — research, legal briefs and organizing moot courts for the team to practice their arguments — had him working alongside fellow GOP lawyers Ann Coulter, the future arch-conservative pundit, and Jerome Marcus, a veteran of Ronald Reagan's State Department. Coulter offered a nickname for their clique of off-the-books workers: "the Elves." And they had a mischievous side. When it appeared as though Bill Clinton and Jones might settle out of court, Conway and Coulter were determined to prevent that. "It was contrary to our purpose of bringing down the president," she later told the journalist Michael Isikoff, as reported in his book "Uncovering Clinton."

So to keep the story alive, they started leaking.

“The distinguishing physical characteristic that Paula Jones says she believes she saw is that Clinton’s penis is curved when erect,” George wrote in an email to Matt Drudge, according to “The Hunting of the President,” by Gene Lyons and Joe Conason. “If she is correct, then Clinton has a urological condition called Peyronie’s disease.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/george-conway-is-the-man-at-the-center-of-everything/2017/05/13/e0720ad6-366b-11e7-b412-62beef8121f7_story.html


* He denies some of what is written in the article.

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What a transformation Conway has made since his move from the "Dark Side..." hlthe2b Jul 2024 #1
TSF found guilty dweller Jul 2024 #2
Of course! Duh.... I need more sleep... hlthe2b Jul 2024 #3
I never knew George was on the dark side. True Blue American Jul 2024 #6
"Aternative facts."!!!!!! CTyankee Jul 2024 #11
George Conway is the man at the center of everything demmiblue Jul 2024 #15
More if THIS!!!!! K and R Top of the greatest page! Nt Quixote1818 Jul 2024 #4
Awesome. I'm thinking of donating, and I never do. lindysalsagal Jul 2024 #5
Kick and rec!! 58Sunliner Jul 2024 #7
Kick StarryNite Jul 2024 #8
excellent markie Jul 2024 #9
Thank you George 😊👍 TommieMommy Jul 2024 #10
Love this... polichick Jul 2024 #12
Kick AKwannabe Jul 2024 #13
Send that to your wife SunImp Jul 2024 #14
I'm really glad he's doing this. D23MIURG23 Jul 2024 #16
So glad he's doing this!! I had a dream last week Quakerfriend Jul 2024 #17
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