White House counselor Kellyanne Conway hinted Thursday that after President Trump tweeted a claim that an Obama representative was embedded in the Trump campaign, the mole would have been there prior to her arrival on the campaign team in August and perhaps worked under her predecessors, Corey Lewandowski or Paul Manafort.
“I don’t have an idea,” Conway told Fox News. She added that such a person may have overlapped with Carter Page and George Papadopoulos, two other campaign aides who arrived before she was hired and have had complications arise during special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
“It looks like they had some very tangential involvement with the campaign earlier on. So maybe this happened then,” Conway said.
“But I think that is very important to note, which is, when the campaign team and structure changed and expanded in August, due to the president making his own decisions then,” she added. “If this happened to happen earlier on, if you’re talking about Page and Papadopoulos, this is very important because this whole idea we’re all there together …”
Conway added she does not know Page or Papadopoulos
The New York Times reported Wednesday that at least one government informant during former President Barack Obama’s administration met multiple times with Page and Papadopoulos.
“If somebody finds some picture where I was in a room with George Papadopoulos and 100 other people, great. Let me explain for the cameras again: I was the campaign manager for the winning part of the campaign,” Conway said. “I saw Carter Page on a different network tell the anchor I’ve never met Kellyanne Conway. I don’t know these two people.”
