White House adviser Kellyanne Conway charged Friday that members of the White House press corps are still worried more about “going viral” by battling the White House instead of seeking information.
She was referring to a dust-up with White House reporter April Ryan, who insisted that press secretary Sarah Sanders was “blindsided” by Rudy Giuliani’s comments. Sanders disagreed and said “you don’t know much about me,” which Ryan interpreted as fighting words.
[April Ryan: Sarah Sanders’ response to Giuliani question was ‘very street‘]
But Conway said these sorts of incidents show the press is looking for a fight against the Trump administration.
“You don’t know us, and that’s not anything other than a pedestrian term of, you don’t know us and you should think about … the difference between trying to go viral and start an argument, and trying to get information,” Conway said on Fox News. “Your job is to get information, not confrontation.”
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Ryan said after the White House briefing that it was Sanders who was looking to do battle.
“She went straight to me,” Ryan said. “To say something like, you know, you don’t know me, in certain sectors of this nation, people understand what ‘you don’t know me’ means. It’s very street. And it leads to a fight, a physical fight.”
Outside of the Ryan fight, Conway said many people who are getting into scrapes with the White House don’t always seem ready to hear any criticism back.
“A lot of the folks who dish it out really can’t take it,” she said. “Let’s dial down the temperature a little bit in the furtherance of information.”
