Conway: Media tougher on Trump than Russia was on Clinton

Conway was responding to unverified reports published Tuesday alleging Trump’s campaign coordinated with the Russian government in order to defeat Clinton in the presidential election. A 35-page report alleged Trump has been cultivated by the Russians for more than five years.

Conway called that report “crap” and said a vital piece of the allegations — that Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen went to Prague to meet with Russian operatives — could not be true.

“Michael Cohen has never been to Prague. I looked at his passport. He was at USC with his son meeting with the baseball coach there when this ‘dossier,’ which I would push back on,” Conway said. “It’s an Internet report and there’s a lot of crap on the Internet as everyone knows, and he was in California. Not in Moscow, not in Prague.”

Conway said the media’s reporting of Trump and the opinion pieces slamming the president-elect were far more influential than any possible work by the Russians could have been. She said the campaign worked through an “unprecedented deluge of criticism” to win.

“There was an active campaign by many in the media against him in his effort to win the presidency, and he overcame that,” she said. “I think the media helped him because it was an anti-elitist election.”

When asked if anyone in the Trump campaign was working with the Russian government, Conway spoke only for herself and said she was more focused on talking to voters.

“I certainly didn’t,” she said. “I wasn’t talking to Moscow, I was talking to people in Macomb County, Michigan.”