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" Kellyanne Conway is the latest victim of a familiar cautionary tale: Trump corrupts.
Once seen as a respected, if crafty, conservative communicator, the former Cruz booster joined the winning side (or is it the Dark Side?)—and was rewarded with a plum role of campaign manager.
For a time, she adeptly handled tough questions with a combination of charm and sharp elbows. She seemed to calm things down a bit, which no doubt helped Trump win. Seriously, she came along at a time when she was desperately needed, and really seemed to help Trump right his ship and settle down. As columnist Kathleen Parker observed last August, “…Trump hired a woman… to become his new campaign manager. And: He suddenly started being nice. Call it a woman’s touch or a faltering candidate’s desperation, but Trump was even kind of cute Thursday when he expressed regret for his ill-chosen words during the campaign…”
Today, it appears she has morphed into Katrina Pierson, the erstwhile Trump spokesperson whose attempts to defend the indefensible were generally mocked and derided. Kellyanne is seen as someone who is either a liar or—maybe worse in Washington—simply out of the loop. Morning Joe has decided it’s no longer worth having her on as a guest.
Like Conway, Vice President Mike Pence was once seen as someone who could soften Trump’s rough edges and serve as a bridge to both movement conservatives and mainstream journalists. And just like Conway, it is now clear that Pence is out of the loop. On two separate occasions now (regarding Flynn’s calls to Russia during the transition and during the campaign), Pence has gone on TV and told a mistruth.
Speaking of the lies told to Pence, we probably can’t entirely blame the fall of Mike Flynn on Trump; some of it was, no doubt, brought on by his anger at President Obama for forcing him out as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Still, Flynn’s transformation from respected high-ranking military official to a peddler of conspiracy theories to a disgraced shortest-serving National Security Advisor in American history is a pretty stunning reputational collapse. "
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/02/15/conway-pence-you-name-it-being-around-trump-ruins-them.html?via=twitter_page
Once seen as a respected, if crafty, conservative communicator, the former Cruz booster joined the winning side (or is it the Dark Side?)—and was rewarded with a plum role of campaign manager.
For a time, she adeptly handled tough questions with a combination of charm and sharp elbows. She seemed to calm things down a bit, which no doubt helped Trump win. Seriously, she came along at a time when she was desperately needed, and really seemed to help Trump right his ship and settle down. As columnist Kathleen Parker observed last August, “…Trump hired a woman… to become his new campaign manager. And: He suddenly started being nice. Call it a woman’s touch or a faltering candidate’s desperation, but Trump was even kind of cute Thursday when he expressed regret for his ill-chosen words during the campaign…”
Today, it appears she has morphed into Katrina Pierson, the erstwhile Trump spokesperson whose attempts to defend the indefensible were generally mocked and derided. Kellyanne is seen as someone who is either a liar or—maybe worse in Washington—simply out of the loop. Morning Joe has decided it’s no longer worth having her on as a guest.
Like Conway, Vice President Mike Pence was once seen as someone who could soften Trump’s rough edges and serve as a bridge to both movement conservatives and mainstream journalists. And just like Conway, it is now clear that Pence is out of the loop. On two separate occasions now (regarding Flynn’s calls to Russia during the transition and during the campaign), Pence has gone on TV and told a mistruth.
Speaking of the lies told to Pence, we probably can’t entirely blame the fall of Mike Flynn on Trump; some of it was, no doubt, brought on by his anger at President Obama for forcing him out as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Still, Flynn’s transformation from respected high-ranking military official to a peddler of conspiracy theories to a disgraced shortest-serving National Security Advisor in American history is a pretty stunning reputational collapse. "
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/02/15/conway-pence-you-name-it-being-around-trump-ruins-them.html?via=twitter_page
