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1. “And that's, by the way, that was a total boss feminist move. I don't care what you... Who you like for her to say to her husband We don't control our husbands and you don't control us here.”

   2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

2. “sounds like a two-person working relationship meaning she gives advice he takes it she gives him it she he gives her advice she takes it or doesn't he takes it or doesn't but I was very very fortunate and blessed to witness their marriage up close and personal that is a loving relationship of many many years now two decades plus they've been together she is an excellent mother to Baron who always puts him first And she was a fantastic first lady who got a lot done and was not treated as fairly and as warmly as other First Ladies who I don't necessarily think do much maybe we don't expect them to do much and if her I know her well if I spend time with her if her husband runs again she'll be right there but that's his you know that's your decision”

   2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

3. “Lana Trump's a big character in my book because I know her well. She said publicly recently that she's grateful for our friendship, so I'll say that we're friends if she says so. But that's a gift to me. We, our relationship was forged through fire. We were in a very small campaign together. And President Trump has in Melania Trump, the woman I refer to David as the original counselor to the president. She sees and listens to things in the media, in books that other people have written about the White House or about politics or policy that the rest of us had not seen. And she is a great sounding board for him, and she is the first person to say, I give him my advice. I tell him what I think is best. Sometimes it takes my advice and sometimes he doesn't. That sounds like a marriage to me, by the way.”

   2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

4. “David Axelod, Kelly and Conway, will later in life public servants, and we also walked away from millions and millions of dollars to go get a government selling the White House. I know you did, so did I. But I loved being able to be honestly a tiny, tiny molecule that's trying to affect positive change for people. I've met them. You know the people that you've impacted. You know their names. They come up, they run up. Thank you so much. We got the VA Choice Actor Mission Act. Thank you so much. I got my job back in manufacture. Thank you so much. Whatever it is they're saying, it really matters. And I work on the drug crisis. Yeah, for sure. And I worked on the drug crisis and we got drug overdose deaths down for the first time in 30 years and now over 170,000, yes.”

   2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

5. “Well, first of all, I should tell you what I loved, what I don't regret at all, which is I loved my job. I loved being a public servant. I know you got to be a public servant later in life, and I just think you have this different appreciation. Yes.”

   2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

6. “For the honor of the nomination, I need to withdraw my name because we can't both have these big jobs at the same time. I continue to support you, Mr. President, the work of your administration, of course that of my wonderful wife. And five days later started tweeting. Again, he can change his mind. He's talking about the January, but the media made him whatever they wanted him to be. He's a constitutional law expert. He's a political consultant. He's a psychiatrist diagnosing his non-patient Donald Trump. All I wanted him to be was my husband and the father of my kids. So let me ask you, but it's totally unnecessary.”

   2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

7. “This is Sienna now. You know, well, if I used to watch you when I was in college and law school to find out what was going on in the world, what's going on? This is important. And now it's this. But George can go on with his personal friend, Jake Tapper, and never be asked a single question about me who actually works in the White House. It actually works at all. And again, that's beyond bias. That's next level. That's just trying to not get the story, but get the president and the people around him. Now again, George accepted a big job in case you're wondering what it was. Head of the civil division at the Justice Department, that's a big job. You know that. You worked in the administration. And he had gone and interviewed staff. He had seen his office. He was all in. And then he put out a statement, gave a statement to the president, not on Twitter because he wasn't on Twitter yet. Put out a statement to President Trump the end of May, beginning of June 2017 and said, thank you so much.”

   2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

8. “is David. George and I both accepted big jobs from President Trump. That's just a fact. You're not going to hear that in a CNN interview where I'm asked about George, and George is never asked about me, even though I'm the one with the big job in the White House. Hello, sexism. Hello double standard. That's beyond bias. That's like a quadruple standard, and it is. And I don't care if you like Donald Trump or not, that's complete bullshit, and you know it. Why am I going on CNN and having Wolf Blitzer play clips of George Conway from MSNBC, the Rival Network, whose ratings are a lot better than CNN these days? And playing clips and asking me and asking me what I think of that just to try to embarrass me in front of my four children. And I said to Wolf, wow.”

   2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

9. “While he was exhilarated for me, but he was at Trump Tower many, many nights helping me out. He was the one driving me to Trump Tower the day after Access Hollywood, two days after Access Hollywood, don't even think of quitting. He can do this. He came to the debates. He's my person. He's my husband. He was my person. He's my sounding board. And my safety net. And that's all gone now. And it's gone for what? For politics, for the January 6th committee hearings, as told by George Conley on CNN, for what? And I write in the book, you know, you have to decide if you'd rather be right or rather be loved. And I'm not the one who made that decision, frankly. I never would have moved to Washington, D.C. and moved my four children to new schools unless we did that as a couple, unless we did that as a family. The other thing George and I have in common in addition to two decades plus a marriage and four teenage children pray for me.”

   2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

10. “We were going to have them online again. Screen time is school time. But I think we need a quick review of what exactly it is George did and didn't do. First and foremost, for those of you who haven't read the book or maybe won't read the book, George owes no allegiance to a political party or President Trump or President Biden or anything like that. That is not the objection. His vows were to me. And the vows were not to agree with me politically. The vows were to love, honor, and cherish, and some other things. As we all know, everybody should know that in 2016, known as the Year of the Tweet, George Conway sent zero tweets. He has now sent well over 100,000 of them. Again, that's his right, but you should know that. You should also know that George, like me, was absolutely exhilarated when Donald Trump was elected and Mike Pence was...”

    2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

11. “Well, I left the White House because my children ridiculously were about to start their second school year online because some health commissioner Montgomery County, Maryland decided after everybody was told go have a great summer, including by the doctors at the White House.”

    2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

12. “I also just want to say I think that the lies coming from the podium are very dangerous. I think the lies coming from the White House podium are very dangerous. You can't tell us everything is going well in Afghanistan. Americans are not stranded there.”

    2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

13. “In court on this. You already know how I feel. I'm the guy who told President Trump the earliest he came up short for December 14th when the electors were going to certify the election. That's the only date I had in mind because I wasn't even, there were other people who said, well, we've got another bite at the apple call January 6th. And David respectfully, in full disclosure, I think they got that from people like Chairman Benny Thompson who refused to certify the election results in 2005. Why? George W. Bush won re-election handily over John Kerry and John Edwards. He to this moment has not certified that election. There are Democrats right now who have never certified a Republican presidential election in this century. People who believe in including Donald Trump that he won the election”

    2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

14. “Well, they also believe it because they read that there's somebody in Arizona signing an affidavit, that they were guilty of ballot harvesting, they hear things are coming out of Georgia, you're not going to believe it's, I think in Wisconsin there was a clear legal case that's still being litigated. There's three questions of law there about whether you can change who is unduly compliant.”

    2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

15. “First of all, the president believes that he won the election. He believes it right now. And other people believe that too, millions of them.”

    2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

16. “Because the 74 million Trump pence voters minus 662 were not in the capital that day. And I get a little tired of everybody being all the same.”

    2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

17. “what they were doing in there. So I write about that. And I say about January 6th at this moment, I'm still in shock and not in all. I don't think people should have been in solitary confinement. I think they should have known their fate a long time ago. There have to be federal crimes. To prosecute when you say, hang myself”

    2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

18. “did not speak to him that day. If I did, it must have been later in the night. But no, I did not. And I said then what I'll say now, I went on George Stefanopoulos show live and said then that I had just received a call from Mayor Bowser's office about the National Guard. Now I'm out of the White House. I'm thinking my sweatpants at home. And I said they called me. And they said, well, what's going on? I said, does the president know that you made that request? Does acting secretary of defense christenal or know you made that request? Sometimes people speak on behalf of the president without cluing him in. I've witnessed that too many times speak for him without asking him. So it was all very, you know what I felt? I felt out of the loop. I felt chaotic. I felt that there was a crisis. I felt, and I was glad the president went out and spoke because the tweets were, and I said that. He needs to go down there with a bullhorn or, you know, people aren't stopping. People in the capital aren't stopping to look at their Twitter feed.”

    2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

19. “Up against the door of the Supreme Court. They cry. A guy lit himself on fire, I think, died recently. God forbid, but you breached the building. And so I was tweeting that, and I called the White House. And I usually call the president on his cell phone or one of his cell phones, or I go through the switchboard, so it's a secure call. There was no time for that. So I called someone I knew would be standing next to him called that person's government cell phone, so it's a public record, obviously. and said this person said, would you like to speak? I said, no, I can speak to the president later. But these people need to get out of there. What are they doing there? Who told them that that was okay? So you're actually piecing together information about vice president pence that I learned later. I don't remember at that time. So you didn't speak.”

    2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

20. “I called the White House earlier. As soon as I was focused, I made it a practice after having to just watch TV all the time for years. I took myself off TV for 10 months and I had none in my home office. And that's where I was. And I saw a Don Jr. tweet pop up. I guess he was already at the airport and he said, this is not who we are. Protest peacefully. Whatever his tweet was, you can look it up. And I said, what's going on? So I ran downstairs, turned on the TV, and of course this morning I went through the Twitter feed. I called immediately then because it was very obvious that people with Trump flags and other things were inside the Capitol. And look, we do have to have the right to peacefully protest in this country. I'm the first person in the Trump Pence White House to refer to what happened to George Floyd as murder. And we saw those protests. They weren't all peaceful. And we've seen protests are not all peaceful. But people don't breach the building, for God's sake. They throw their body.”

    2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

21. “But the grassroots are going to be most important. I think one big test for Governor DeSantis is, does he like to be around mix it up with the people as much as he likes to be in those press conferences? But he has done a great job, and he's proven that he can go toe to toe with the media, which is important for any Republican presidential aspirant. He's proven he can take risks and peek around the corner and show vision like he did on COVID, frankly, against everybody's advice and against a lot of criticism. And he's also proven that he can govern in a state with a massive budget surplus without raising taxes, which is important to many people.”

    2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

22. “A troubled person I'll pray for. And since then has raised over $100 million, is on track to have a monster re-election. And has been really smart, David, to focus on his reelection and not get too involved with too many other races. I love the donors. They're wonderful men and women in the Republican Party. They're often wrong about who's next for president. They went for Scott Walker, Chris Christie, anybody named Bush, Tim Palente at the time, all people, by the way, I like and respect. Some of them are actually, at least two of them are close for personal friends of mine I speak to often regularly.”

    2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

23. “So President Trump would like to run for a second term. He always planned on having a second term, unfinished business. I am with the majority of Americans who does not approve of the job at all that Biden-Harris are doing. And I wish I can tell you otherwise because I love this country. We live in that at this time, but they don't seem to do anything well. If they do, please show me the poll that says that or please tell me what it is because I'd like to open my mind a little bit more to that. So yes, I share a vested interest with the majority of Americans, including a majority of independents who want Biden Hagris gone. And we'll see what happens. I first will always consider how it affects, first of all, my best and highest interest, my best and highest use, excuse me, and how it affects my four children who always come first. Governor DeSantis sent a remarkable job as governor of Florida, came within 32,000 votes of losing to Andrew Gillam, who I think was indicted yesterday or something happened investigated just yesterday.”

    2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

24. “Down this rabbit hole. I don't want to go down that rabbit hole. You need to feel comfortable about the elections. I don't like the zuckbucks. I don't. I don't. In 2016, David Mark Zuckerberg let us do what we wanted. I'm sorry, in 2016, we spent tens of millions of dollars on ads, 5.9 million dollar Facebook ads. And you know what Zuckerberg did? Nothing, which is what he should have done. He should have left us alone, taken our money, ran the ads. $400 million.”

    2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

25. “I believe that he got more electoral votes than President Trump, yes, and that's how you win these things. And obviously he got more of the popular vote. Yes, I don't like what happened. I want to make this very clear. I don't like what happened if folks, neither should you. We can have people opening up ballots and just saying, you know what, I think because of COVID, we have to keep the polls open. You can't do that in the state of Pennsylvania, which clearly says you can't change things unless you go through the Constitution. There are other states where you can apply for emergency appeals, Kenya.”

    2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

26. “Well, unfortunately, I don't think the election was fair everywhere, but he is the president, and it's obvious he's the president because”

    2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

27. “They had encountered all the ballots. But he did have a data guy there telling him, I don't know, he might come up short. And the data guy is not somebody you know. Those are usually the people. Not household names are telling you the truth. And I said to President Trump, Mr. President, don't worry about it. It's like 4 a.m. in the map room. And I said, you eat one Pennsylvania by about 44,000 votes last time. You're ahead by 700,000. And that was wrong because ultimately, now, I will say, if you ask me to give you an example of malfeasance and improprieties in the 2020 election, I'd point to Pennsylvania. I don't like that you had election officials who are not officially elected to anything, keeping the polls open after the deadline, opening up ballots days later.”

    2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

28. “Was that two days after the election? What happened election night? It happened to me one of probably less than 200 people in the White House because the party was really reduced because of COVID. Most people were at the hotel. And I said to the president, Mr. President, don't worry about Pennsylvania. We won Pennsylvania, I think by less than 40,000 votes in 2016. And at that moment, he was ahead by something crazy like 700,000 votes.”

    2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

29. “And the president said, if we have mail in ballots, we're screwed, we're not going to win. If we have these mail-in ballots, I think his campaign should have spend a little bit more time on the dirty work. In other words, the process, not just...”

    2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

30. “Why in Minnesota? And then I think they did not pay attention to what was happening with COVID. Obviously, COVID changed the entire election.”

    2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

31. “Asking people to get along. But I also didn't like the way the campaign was being run for another reason. Why all this money being spent in a Super Bowl ad? Why a Super Bowl ad 11.5 million dollars?”

    2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

32. “So, why not just stay together like that? But almost from the moment Donald Trump won, Jared was trying to ice me out in transition in the White House. And my life was hard enough. You know, I'm a mom of four kids at the time, seven, eight, twelve, and 12. They're four sucky ages for mom to go into the White House. And yes, I'm their mother, not their father, respectfully. It is different and will always be different. So let's stop pretending it's not. But this wasn't about me. This was about the president.”

    2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

33. “I'm very honest about the difficulty of having the son-in-law, be it a very smart one, an accomplished one, having all this authority and no accountability. It's too wide. And Jared took it upon himself to get in my way an awful lot. I thought we could have learned an awful lot from each other. I did try to learn from him. I know other Democratic donors, but I did try to learn from him. And he had no problem with me being the campaign manager, he had no problem with me, and the very small team we had around us when we won in 2016. You know that euphoric feeling and you know you're a band of brothers and sisters in a campaign like that. You guys were the underdog. You know, you heard what we heard eight years later, David. Don't even bother. She's got it all wrapped up. You heard that in the primaries. We heard it in the general.”

    2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

34. “But I did not like the way the campaign was going. I felt it had become a lot like Hillary Clinton in 2016, that it proved the old adage that the fastest way to make a small fortune is to have a very large fortune and waste most of it. And I bet there are Trump pence 2020 donors in this room, and I'm sorry for you. Because there was $1.4 billion. And you know what? The more money you have, I think the less hunger and swagger and creativity and innovation. And frankly, Donald Trump-like underdog underestimated. I'm glad he wasn't under-resourced and understaffed in 2020 the way we were in 2016. But there's something to that. And anybody here who's ever been white knuckled about paying a bill or making payroll or wondering if your small business can actually survive, let alone thrive, you know what I'm talking about. That's what 2016 was.”

    2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

35. “There were just so many unknowns. I did leave the White House for my children famously, Moore Mama, less drama, and most days it's that way. And I was pained to leave my job because it's a job I loved very much. I was not involved in the 2020 election. And I think that history should be reminded that Jared Kushner, the son-in-law, put himself as the campaign chairman. If you go back and look at any press clip anywhere, it says de facto chief of staff, de facto campaign manager in 2020, de facto president, all of that. And I know Jared wants people to forget that. So maybe when his book comes out in August, he'll be asked about my book, which very clearly states that after they screwed up politics in the Midwest, he tried to go make peace in the Midwest. I think that's a very noble cause. I'm glad that Abraham Accords. I'm glad I worked for a president who kept the promise of seven presidents to move the embassy to Jerusalem and to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Seven presidents made that promise. One kept it Donald Trump. So I'm grateful for all of that.”

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36. “He said, Did you see her over there in the cabinet room? She fells. He said, did you change your mind? I said, Mr. President, I'm not going to change my mind. But my name wasn't on the ballot. I'm not the president of the United States. But I appreciate that he listens to senior counselor to the president of the United States, even though we disagreed on that. And I thought he would lose that case at best seven to two, possibly 9 to nothing.”

    2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

37. “Obamacare. Yeah, it's a good fight. We tangles about the Affordable Care Act. I was in the minority Bill Barr and I were in the minority on May 4th, 2020 in the cabinet room at a meeting with 20 people around the table, whether or not to take the AZAR case all the way to the Supreme Court, the Affordable Care Act case. And I said, you already won in the Fifth Circuit. They affirmed the repeal of the Obamacare mandate, which really is the heart of it. And now you're in the middle of a global pandemic. And women are the chief healthcare officers of our households. A majority of the consumers and a majority of the providers. You guys wouldn't even go to the doctor unless we told you it was time. Come on. And so I said, if, you know, you want to appeal to women and you're going to just take this all the way to the Supreme Court. And we tangled, but you know what? He heard. He heard me. He didn't take my advice, but he always listened to it. And two hours later, I was in the oval for a different meeting altogether.”

    2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

38. “And he says, now when he mentioned the tweet, it was from earlier that morning, I said, well, I was going to be polite and not mention that tweet. It wasn't in my top 1,000 most favorite. I said, they just asked me about it on TV and I sort of said, I don't really have a comment on that. And he said, oh, you know, Rupert liked it. I guess Rupert Murdoch. And I said, well, Mr. President, when I'm an 81-year-old male billionaire from Australia living in London, I like that tweet. But until then, so I was very honest. Otherwise, you really shouldn't have those jobs. You really shouldn't. You have to be honest respectfully honest. And we tangled. I have a couple times in the book October 23rd, 2016, we tangled going up the stairs. We were on our way to Gettysburg and people like Steve Barr are like, whoa, girl, whoa, you know, we tangled.”

    2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

39. “But didn't you show deference even though you were in the bunker with, you know, you were in the trenches with Senator Obama winning that election with him? You have to show deference. And not everybody did. So when it came to delivering bad news or saying, I have a different opinion on that, or I don't think that's helpful. I write in the book about, you know, he calls me down at the Oval Office, which is not unusual. I go down with my folder. I'm ready to go. I'm all organized because I know the three things he had asked me to do or look into and I'm ready. And I go down there and he says, did you like my tweet? I'm looking around. I said, your tweet. I said, I don't know. It takes me 12 seconds to get here in three-inch heels. Did I miss it?”

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40. “But last thing I said to him was, Mr Trump, I don't consider myself your peer. I'll never address you by your first name. And he said, okay, I think he probably said, okay, honey. And he did. He said, okay, honey. And blew a kiss from across the room because he's a Germaphobe and left for Altoon, Pennsylvania. And anyway, I think that's a...”

    2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

41. “I have already established a boss worker relationship and was very clear about that. I told him when he made me campaign manager the last thing I said to him David in that office that day was, Mr. Trump, can I say something else? He said, okay. And I said, because he said, you know, could you be campaign manager? I write all about it. And then even self-sabotage then, even that young girl, self-denying product of the self-denying Italian Catholic women who raised me, givers, not takers, said, well, why don't you...”

    2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

42. “Of course not. I'm sure you said Mr. President anyway. There's a respect and deference level that should come with the office, no matter who its occupant. But I did... Speak up. I mean, that's why I didn't write a tell all and bore most. I'm not speaking up now because I didn't speak up then because God knows I spoke up then. I don't understand the people who say it's time to speak really. Now's the time to speak. I spoke up plenty then. And because I was one of the few people around him who knew him well, who had a great working relationship with him and who had never called him Donald.”

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43. “But I still, yeah, so of course you have to. Your family's here in Chicago and you've got a lot going on. You had lived an entire life.”

    2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

44. “Well, there's some. In other words, counselor to the president meant exactly that for me. I wanted to have a policy job. I think the women always get shoved into the communications job, suppressed jobs, the scheduling jobs. By and large. And I said no to press secretary within an hour or so of President Trump winning. He offered me that job first and he said, I want you to do what Josh Ernest does. And I said, And he said, you'd be a great press secretary. And I'm thinking to myself, I'd be a terrible press secretary. I'm not even sure what they do. I kind of even wonder now, to be frank with you. But I knew I wouldn't be good at that. It's difference between going on TV and talking about policy and being a good press secretary. And I didn't want to communicate job. I wanted to policy job. I actually didn't want to go to the White House at all, which I write about. But I did, and I'm glad I did.”

    2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

45. “And that's something I would never do. No, it's not. And respectfully, I don't want to argue today, but I think one of the biggest lies told to the American public in the last 50 years is you can keep your plan, you can keep your doctor. That was a whopper. People couldn't.”

    2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

46. “Learn much about Washington. But he made good in his promise to the forgotten and forgotten woman in many different ways, but in communication as well. The democratization of information means this, that every single American, really anybody throughout the world received an instant free of charge presidential communication without going through the middleman. Now, the middleman didn't like it. The middleman tried to punish us and still does, mightily, including his staffers. But the president telling the plumber who's looking at his phone, the stay-at-home mom, and the billionaire CEO all at the same time, what's on his mind or why he's doing what he's doing, I think many Americans appreciate it a more transparent, more forthcoming, more of the moment communication style from a president. We don't have that right now.”

    2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

47. “President Trump President Trump He presided over what I refer to as the democratization of information. What do I mean? I mean that this man who had never held elective or military office before who had no experience in Washington, D.C., which I think was charming, if not determinative to millions of Americans to vote for him, I did not think it was charming that some of the people around him had no Washington experience and didn't seem to”

    2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

48. “I know he wants to, and he's planning to. He'd like to run for president. He feels like he's got unfinished business. And Donald Trump is up there with a majority of Americans in everybody's polling, CNN's polling, Fox News is polling, New York Times polling, Washington Post polling. A majority of Americans that disapprove of the job that Biden and Harris are doing, including on every single major issue. Go look at the polls. We can't just cherry-pick polls when they're going well for the team.”

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49. “There were times that he didn't. There were times that he would send out a tweet that he had been thinking about for quite a while and sat in the draft box and then thought, today's a good day to come out with that, which I think is very similar to he's probably got, I would imagine he's got a statement ready to go now announcing he's running for president again and one day he's going to say, put that out today. Today's the day. But I want to say this is going to be going to be go”

    2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

50. “I wouldn't give them counsel. I also say in the book, sure. But there were many tweets you've never seen Many tweets still in the draft box.”

    2022-06-30 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 496 — Kellyanne Conway · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source