Kellyanne Conway’s bold new claim exposed
Kellyanne Conway was again accused of spreading “alternative facts” with her comment on Donald Trump’s visit to a church in Detroit over the weekend.
“You have Donald Trump in Detroit speaking to 8,000 people in a black church,” Conway boasted to Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo.
Conway, who ran Trump’s 2016 campaign and later served as his White House adviser, sought to highlight what she saw as a stark difference in support for the presumptive GOP nominee versus President Joe Biden in the upcoming 2024 election.
But videos of the event at 180 Church posted online showed that only a few hundred spectators were present.
And as Reuters noted, “While some enthusiastic supporters wearing MAGA caps waited for hours to get in, the line stretched not into the thousands but into the hundreds, and some attendees said they had stumbled upon the place only by chance. When the event began, the church was not at capacity.”
MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin was among those who noted that “most of the people who came to the event were not black.”
Conway’s “8,000 people” claim is the latest in a long line of unrealistic defenses against Trump, following her previous “alternative facts” responses to the lies she spread to the crowd at his inauguration and the “Bowling Green massacre” that never happened.
The lady with the alternative facts always brings alternative facts.
— 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐝𝐢 (@ChidiNwatu) June 16, 2024
The Alternative Facts woman strikes again. It is impossible that 8,000 people were in that church.
— Jules Morgan 🧸 (@glamelegance) June 16, 2024
That church couldn’t even hold 8,000 people, let alone black people. Increase those numbers.
– 🌸 🐾 A to Z 🐾🌸 (@A_tothe_Z_Amber) June 16, 2024
The queen of lies is at it again. To me it looked like 200 mostly white people.
— Suzanne McCain (@McCainSuzanne) June 16, 2024
There were about 150 white people and 10 black people there, you alternative facts idiot.
– Karen (@klsmd12) June 16, 2024
But they were predominantly WHITE! My God, these people are everywhere this morning and they are lying.
And there certainly weren’t 8,000 people.– Claire S🖤🩷🖤 (@SaintLaurant) June 16, 2024
The church held a few hundred people and they were predominantly white. Not to mention that about a third of the church was empty, you lying bastard
— WTFGOP (@DogginTrump) June 16, 2024
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