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kentuck

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Mon Mar 5, 2018, 03:45 PM Mar 2018

Defying the Odds, Kellyanne Conway Steps Back and Hangs On

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/04/us/politics/kellyanne-conway-white-house.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

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n fact, her portfolio has grown, with the addition of the opioid crisis and coordination with cabinet secretaries, which originally fell under Mr. Kushner’s purview. On Thursday, she put together an opioid summit meeting with cabinet members at the White House, which the president briefly joined.

Other Republicans say her loyalty to Mr. Trump — and thus her ability to survive in his chaotic White House — is no virtue.

“She has no shame,” Tim Miller, a former spokesman for Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign, said in a text message, “and that is a quality the president values.”

Ms. Conway, of course, would see it differently. She refers to those who have lasted from the campaign until now as “unbroken threads.”
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Defying the Odds, Kellyanne Conway Steps Back and Hangs On (Original Post) kentuck Mar 2018 OP
I wonder if prison is on her bucket list?? Angry Dragon Mar 2018 #1
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