Sarcasm doesn’t translate well in all media, especially live television interviews. Kellyanne Conway found that out the hard way Monday morning when she deadpanned that James Comey did what Donald Trump couldn’t do: The former FBI director defeated Hillary Clinton.

“This guy swung an election,” the White House senior counselor told George Stephanopoulos Monday. “He thought the wrong person would win. His people in his household wanted the other person to win.”

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