Kellyanne Conway’s job is to defend the indefensible. The counselor to the president employs a number of evasions for this purpose — most famously, her trick of pretending to answer a question by repeating a word in the question while changing the subject. Today, in response to questions about Trump’s latest violation of governing norms, denying a security clearance to the former CIA director, Conway snapped at reporters that people are unduly obsessed with Trump:
Kellyanne Conway: "Why is everybody so obsessed with the President of the United States that they can't even begin or finish a sentence without mentioning his name five times. It's kind of weird."
CSPAN (@cspan) August 17, 2018