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Chelsea Clinton’s dig at Kellyanne Conway sparks Twitter feud
By Bob Fredericks
February 3, 2017 | 3:18pm | Updated February 3, 2017 | 4:14pm
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Chelsea Clinton and Kellyanne Conway traded sharp Twitter jabs Friday — with the former first daughter mocking President Trump’s counselor for inventing a terror attack and the White House aide firing back about how the Clintons “lost the election.”
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President Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway cited a nonexistent terror attack...
“Very grateful no one seriously hurt in the Louvre attack … or the (completely fake) Bowling Green Massacre. Please don’t make up attacks,” Clinton tweeted Friday morning, the day after Conway appeared on MSNBC to defend Trump’s immigration order.
“I bet it’s brand new information to people that 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. It didn’t get covered,” she said on “Hardball.”
Conway apologized Friday morning, saying she misspoke.
But then, egged on by conservative journalists, she fired back at Clinton’s salvo, mocking her mother, Hillary, as a loser.
“Bosnia lie a Great reminder. And 2 @ChelseaClinton & others, you can’t ‘invent’ quality candidates either. I misspoke; you lost the election,” she tweeted after Weekly Standard reporter Mark Hemingway reminded her of Hillary’s false claim that as first lady, she had to dodge sniper fire on a 1996 trip to war-torn Bosnia.
Clinton made the claim in a 2008 speech, but it was quickly debunked when reporters unearthed video of her landing peacefully and greeting children on the tarmac.
Conway said she was actually talking about the case of two Iraqis — Waad Ramadan Alwan and Mohanad Shareef Hammadi — who lived in Bowling Green, Kentucky, after being granted refugee status and entering the US in 2009.
They were busted in May 2011 on terrorism charges and were sentenced two years later after pleading guilty to supplying weapons to jihadis in Iraq.
“On @hardball @NBCNews @MSNBC I meant to say ‘Bowling Green terrorists’ as reported here,” her tweeted clarification read, including a link to an ABC report on the case.
“Yep. Everyone should read the ABC News article. On my twitter feed. Instead of creating memes & phony outrage. It’s a dangerous world,” she wrote to James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal, who had thanked her on Twitter for bringing up the case of the Iraqis.
Conway infamously coined the phrase “alternative facts” during a debate with “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd over the size of the crowd at Trump’s inauguration.
Clinton had not responded to Conway’s taunts as of Friday evening.
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