Two sources at the top of the Donald Trump transition team "confirmed" to MSNBC that they spoke to the president-elect today and that Donald Trump was "furious" at Kellyanne Conway's comments Sunday suggesting Trump "betrayed" his supporters by even considering Mitt Romney for a position in his cabinet.
"Kellyanne went rogue at Donald Trump's expense at the worst possible time," a source familiar with Trump's thinking told MSNBC.
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Well, is it true?
According to Jason Miller, communications director for President-elect Trump's transition team, said this past Monday evening that former campaign chairman Kellyanne Conway was not going rogue when she criticized Mitt Romney on Twitter and Sunday morning news shows.
"The president-elect and Kellyanne and myself were sharing a chuckle about that this evening," Miller told Fox News' "Kelly File. "Kellyanne chatted with the president-elect in advance of going out with her comments, asking his permission to voice her opinions on the matter and he said 'go for it.'"
Miller added, that while there are other people who are giving Trump advice on who to select for secretary of state, Conway is indeed in the loop and at one end of the spectrum while others are advocating on behalf of the former Massachusetts governor - people like Paul Ryan, and Reince Priebus no doubt.
In the mean time, Conway in an interview with Lloyd Grove, Conway insists she doesn’t despise the 2012 Republican standard-bearer, as claimed in a Washington Post story headlined “Why Kellyanne Conway Hates Mitt Romney.”
“I don’t hate Mitt Romney,” she said. “Let’s not flatter anybody here. I don’t hate him. I just am wondering why he gets such a [negative] reaction from the grass roots and even the donor community, and why is there the absence of such a public groundswell for Mitt Romney to be secretary of state? Where is that? It doesn’t exist.”
Conway continued, “If you were going to write an article saying that Kellyanne Conway hates somebody, wouldn’t you call Kellyanne Conway?” she demanded. “That’s kinda weird. Has everyone lost my number?”
Yeah apparently...
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