Kellyanne Conway said the people who fact-checked President Trump on Twitter are the “same people who attack him all day long.”
The White House counselor reacted on Wednesday to the social media giant’s move to put a fact-checking label on two of Trump’s tweets claiming mail-in voting in California will lead to voter fraud.
“So we turn around, and we use the same people who are going to endorse Joe Biden for president reluctantly, are constantly attacking the president and the people around him, even when he does great things like reduce the cost of insulin yesterday for a maximum of $35 co-pay for seniors each month, even that can’t get covered fairly and completely. And they are relying upon the same people who attack him all day long to ‘fact-check’ him,” Conway said on Fox & Friends.
She singled out Yoel Roth, the head of Twitter’s department of site integrity, as someone she believes is a left-wing Trump foe who would treat the president and other conservatives unfairly.
In years-old tweets, Roth compared Conway with Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. Roth also called people who live in “fly-over” states “racist” and said that the Trump administration was full of “actual Nazis.”
“This guy is constantly attacking Trump voters, Trump, Mitch McConnell, you name it, and he’s the head of integrity at Twitter,” she said, later adding, “Go and read what he said. We fly over, you know, the racist fly-over country who voted for Trump. It’s just horrible the way he looks at people who otherwise should have a free and fair platform on Twitter.”
Conway argued that Twitter was trying to use the policy to harm Trump’s election chances in 2020, echoing a similar argument made by her boss.
Trump also threatened “big action” after Twitter’s fact-check summary stated that the president’s tweets about mail-in ballots were “unsubstantiated” according to multiple news outlets.
“We have no presence in the mainstream media. They look down on us like we’re deplorable and irredeemable. So social media gives us that presence, and the president himself has a huge advantage on social media,” Conway said.
“He has more followers than any president. He uses it more than anyone ever has to reach the people to communicate and to also hear back from them what’s on their minds. So that’s why they are shutting this down,” she added.
Conway managed Trump’s 2016 campaign. She now works in the White House as a counselor to the president.
