You are correct. That was Kellyanne-Alternative Facts-Conway.A top aide to President Trump said on Friday she misspoke when she cited a 2011 “massacre” in Kentucky that never happened.
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Why didn't it get covered?“President Obama had a six-month ban on the Iraqi refugee program after two Iraqis came here to this country, were radicalized, and they were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre, Conway said. “Most people don’t know that because it didn’t get covered.”
Oh.It didn’t happen.
And the fun part is, like Trump and Schwarzenegger, Kellyanne and Chelsea Clinton, of all people, had their own little Twitter feud.Conway tweeted on Friday morning that she meant to say “Bowling Green terrorists” during the interview.
Waad Ramadan Alwan and Mohanad Shareef Hammadi, were mistakenly admitted to the US as Iraqi refugees in 2009 and resettled in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Alwan and Hammadi are in prison after pleading guilty. They were never accused of plotting to launch attacks inside the US.
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[They were] charged with plotting to send weapons and money to al-Qaida operatives abroad.
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Her description of the 2011 Obama administration policy as a ban was also a mischaracterization, which she didn’t correct.
Obama never banned Iraqi refugees or other Iraqi travelers from coming to the US. His administration did slow down the processing for Iraqis seeking special immigrant visas, which are given to translators and interpreters who worked with the US in that country.
The level of discourse amongst our politicos these days is staggering in its juvenile baseness.Conway later returned to the topic in response to a tweet from Hillary Clinton’s daughter Chelsea. “Very grateful no one seriously hurt in the Louvre attack … or the (completely fake) Bowling Green Massacre,” Clinton wrote. “Please don’t make up attacks.
“You can’t ‘invent’ quality candidates either,” Conway replied. “I misspoke; you lost the election.”
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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