White House counselor Kellyanne Conway on Monday said national news outlets hyped up special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe to distract from wrong predictions about the 2016 presidential election.

“You had people … still in the media who were writing articles in late October saying Donald Trump had 0% chance of getting elected,” Conway said. “They have to somehow save their own faces … If they could have found criminal conspiracy, they could have said we cheated, we lied, we stole the election.”