Conway wants media to cover President who may not exist

By Philip Bump
June 5 at 9:55 AM

Kellyanne Conway.. would have you believe that there is ... a .. Trump who .. is the driving force behind the sanitized statements the White House releases, who advocates for complex policy in partnership with Capitol Hill Republicans and who writes the speeches he occasionally reads at events.

... Conway seemed to suggest in an interview on NBC’s “Today” show .. that Other Trump .. gets short shrift in favor of the guy who’s constantly railing in 140-character sound bites on Twitter ...

Given that Trump and his team have explicitly presented Twitter as his trusted outlet for communicating with his base, perhaps Conway is splitting the hair more finely: His tweets are reluctant, because he doesn’t get the press that he wants and that she thinks he deserves.

But, then, that undercuts her point about how Trump’s tweets shouldn’t be covered. If they’re an important workaround because of an unfair press, then it doesn’t make sense that the White House wouldn’t want the media to present them to the public. If it’s good that his tweets go directly to millions on Twitter, why is it bad if they go to millions more on television?...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/06/05/kellyanne-conway-wants-the-media-to-cover-a-president-trump-who-may-not-exist/?utm_term=.55b78fae3ea0