Kellyanne Conway angrily denied the idea that she is the top leaker within the Trump administration when asked about her loose-lipped portrayal in an explosive new book by former aide Cliff Sims.
Speaking to the press in the hours after excerpts of the bombshell book were released Thursday, Conway asked: 'Do I leak to you?' as she looked reporters in the eye one by one.
'Do I leak to most of you? I'm looking around. You know who the real leakers are. And if I revealed them, past and present, I'd also have to reveal who they leaked to very often. And that would be not a lot of fun, I guess, so I won't, but you know the answer to that, you all do.'
In his forthcoming memoir 'Team of Vipers,' Sims recalls how, when he helped Conway respond to criticism from Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, he inadvertently found out she was speaking to the press about the president and her West Wing co-workers.
His recollection paints an unflattering portrait of the adviser, whom he calls a 'cartoon villain brought to life'.
Presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway angrily denied the idea that she is the top leaker within the Trump administration when asked about her loose-lipped portrayal in an explosive new book by former White House aide Cliff Sims
Speaking to the press in the hours after excerpts of the bombshell book were released Thursday, Conway looked reporters in the eye one by one as she asked: 'Do I leak to you?'
Conway downplayed the book's significance, passing it off as yet another diatribe from a scorned ex-Trump staffer.
'Every couple of months we get this new book that's bombshells from a former staffer, often somebody who has been forced out, has all these things to say, and then everybody's supposed to scurry around and answer it,' she said.
'Nobody's talking about it here. We were in meetings most of the day. Obviously very, very focused on reopening the government and getting that border secure.'
However, Conway's tone was far from carefree and unbothered.
'You know who I am, you know what I do here, and if you don't, you're welcome to ask me, I won't make it up,' she continued.
'There are very few people, past or present, that have been more public facing with the press than me, so anything I need to say I just say it.
'I think people who like to say: 'I would never talk to the media or never get any negative press coverage' - which by definition, would exclude me - you know that they are really prodigious leakers. So there's that.
In his forthcoming memoir 'Team of Vipers,' Sims paints an unflattering portrait of Conway, whom he calls a 'cartoon villain brought to life'
She then double-down on her insistence that 'nobody's really talking about this', saying: 'But every couple months, it's the same, it’s like Groundhog day, every couple months, it's the same thing.'
The latest groundhog tearing up the Trump lawn is Sims' tome: 'Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House,' which comes out January 29th.
Sims, a former campaign aide who joined the White House communications team, left his job in May and received a seven-figure offer for his tome: 'Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House,' which comes out January 29th.
White House staff were said to be concerned about how Sims, a former campaign aide who left his job on the White House communications team in May, would portray them in the book, for which he was offered seven figures.
In early excerpts, Conway is the primary target.
'It became hard to look long at her without getting the sense that she was a cartoon villain brought to life,' he wrote in an excerpt published by Vanity Fair.
Conway seemed to 'be perennially cloaked in an invisible fur coat, casting an all-knowing smile, as if she'd collected 98 Dalmatians with only 3 more to go.'
'She was content - very content - to sit back, go on TV, and let rivals eat one another alive,' he wrote of the White House adviser, claiming she talked frequently to reporters from the outlets the president frequently bashed as 'fake news.'
Cliff Sims (left) in his job as Director of White House Message Strategy, stands with White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway and White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on the South Lawn on June 12, 2017
Sims specifically recalls a day in May 2017 when 'Morning Joe' hosts claimed Conway would trash talk Trump during the campaign when the cameras were on even as she defended him on air - a charge Conway wanted to dispute.
So she called Sims up to her office to help her draft a response. He hadn't brought his laptop so she told him to use her personal Macbook.
Sims wrote that as he tried to craft a statement for her, he was 'distracted by the nonstop stream of iMessages popping up on the screen.'
It turns out Conway's iMessage account was tied to both her iphone and her laptop, which caused her texts to turn up on the computer's screen.
'Over the course of 20 minutes or so, she was having simultaneous conversations with no fewer than a half-dozen reporters, most of them from outlets the White House frequently trashed for publishing 'fake news,'' Sims wrote.
He noted she spoke with reporters from The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Politico, and Bloomberg.
'And these weren't policy conversations, or attempts to fend off attacks on the president,' Sims wrote.
He claims she bashed White House adviser Jared Kushner, then chief of staff Reince Priebus, then White House counselor Steve Bannon and then White House press secretary Sean Spicer 'all by name.'
She also recounted conversations with the president in her talks with reporters.
'She was talking about him like a child she had to set straight,' Sims claimed.
Conway downplayed the book's significance, passing it off as yet another diatribe from a scorned ex-Trump staffer. She made no mention of it when speaking to CNN Thursday evening
Speaking to reporters on Thursday evening, Conway tried to push back on that portrayal, saying: 'You all see my relationship with the president. You all know what he thinks of my work, and the work of others here. And I have to tell you, we're a very tight team here. That's not always been the case, but we're a very tight team here.
'And, I think that people who work here at the moment, really do - that's got nothing to do with whoever worked here before - but the people work here really are trying to get it right on behalf of the country we love so much. They really are.
Transitioning off the book subject, she continued: 'I see these people in the shutdown, I have great compassion for them, the federal workers. I was raised by a single mom who used to put clothes on layaway, so, you're not going to get much of an argument from me on that, but the president feels that he has to keep us all safe first and foremost.
'So, again, I think we've answered these questions before, but I do want to talk about prodigious leaking generally, I know you all know who they are, past and present, because they love to talk to you a lot. I love to talk to you like this, in person.'
Before leaving the room, Conway slammed Sims' characterization one more time, saying: 'I see a lot of women in the room, don't ever - unsolicited advice from an old lady - don't ever allow male colleagues to ever get away with wondering what we do all day, like what are your responsibilities, how hard do you work. It's insulting and it's sexist.'
Vanity Fair published the excerpt with a statement from Conway that it said was 'drafted in consultation with her husband, George Conway.' George Conway, however, disputed his role in his wife's defense, saying he never saw the statement
George Conway tweeted he did not write a statement on behalf of his wife
At the time that the excerpt was published, Conway offered a response to Vanity Fair, saying: 'The real leakers, past and present, get much more positive press than I do. While it's rare, I prefer to knife people from the front, so they see it coming.'
The magazine claimed the 'statement was drafted in consultation with her husband, George Conway.'
George Conway, however, disputed his role in his wife's defense, saying he never saw the statement.
'I never saw this statement, let alone helped draft it; nor was I aware of the book excerpt to which it responds until a short while ago,' he tweeted Wednesday evening.
Sims' book is the latest in a string of tomes - Bob Woodward's 'Fear' and Michael Wolff's 'Fire and Fury' - that portrays a chaotic White House.
His account, however, has the weight of being written by a former staffer who was in the center of the storm.
Sims was said to be inspired by George Stephanopoulos' memoir 'All Too Human,' about his work in President Bill Clinton's White House.
The excerpt published by Vanity Fair also details how President Trump was obsessed with his media coverage.
'Trump's greatest fear wasn't death or failure or loss. It was obscurity. If he was noticed, he mattered. And he didn't care much if the attention was good or bad, as long as it wasn't indifferent,' Sims wrote.
He recalled how the president was 'obsessed with White House staffers who leaked against him.'
He noted Trump got a 'prominent White House reporter' on the phone to ask him who the sources were in an article written by the journalist.
The reporter declined to name them but Trump, Sims claimed, 'tried to cut a deal.'
'Well, I guess that's fine,' he quotes Trump as saying. 'But, of course, you know I could give you so much better stories - so much better.'
But the journalist declined and 'hung up without a hot scoop from 'a source close to the president.''
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