Kellyanne Conway eviscerates liberal graduate student who tried to outsmart her at Harvard Q&A

Kellyanne Conway deed retired astatine a wide postgraduate pupil who questioned her grounds during President-Elect Donald Trump's archetypal word during a Harvard University discussion.

The erstwhile advisor to the president appeared astatine the Ivy League instauration connected Tuesday to sermon the 2024 statesmanlike predetermination and what challenges Trump whitethorn look successful his 2nd term.

But erstwhile assemblage members got a accidental to inquire Conway immoderate questions, second-year Master of Public Policy pupil Jane Petersen took the accidental to effort to slam her for erstwhile claiming determination were 'alternative facts' astir the size of the assemblage astatine Trump's inauguration. 

'I wanted to inquire you a question astir your occupation arsenic White House spokesperson,' Petersen began. 'In that role, you said things that were beauteous audacious [and] caused radical to question things that they person seen with their ain eyes.

'I was ever wondering whether it was a endurance effect successful what seemed similar what was a precise chaotic White House, oregon was it a strategy? So was it strategy oregon was it survival? You know, each the bantering with journalists the alternate facts. Was it strategy oregon was it survival?'

At first, Conway simply asked if Petersen knew what the word 'alternative facts' meant, to which she said, 'I'm aware.'

'Can you delight explicate it for us?' Conway past challenged the girl. 'Tell the idiosyncratic who uttered it connected her 3rd Sunday amusement of the day, looking into a blank camera, and past instantly said what I meant.'

The miss past seemed to backtrack, saying: 'Well we could besides bash different examples.'

But Conway chopped her off, urging Petersen to reply the question 'to beryllium fair.'

'You're not going to spell backmost 8 years and bash that,' Conway said.

At that point, the master's pupil tried to rephrase her question, saying she was asking Conway astir her acquisition successful the White House.

But still, Conway doubled down.

'No,' she said. 'You gave maine 2 choices and they're inaccurate.'

Petersen past attempted to explicate Conway's usage of the word 'alternative facts,' but erstwhile she mentioned she was 'assuming,' Conway erstwhile again deed retired astatine her for that.

By then, the pupil said she thought it was 'interesting that you decided to travel present and cognize that you're going to beryllium accepting questions from students and yet -' prompting Kellyanne to respond.

'OK truthful past I'll reply it, convey you for your question,' she said. 

'You gave maine choices, and they're some inaccurate,' Conway replied, noting that it was 'rich' for Petersen to suggest her actions successful the White House were a 'survivor's response... since you cognize thing astir me.'

'So alternate facts, I gave you a bully accidental there, and it's a large accidental for you due to the fact that I don't request immoderate much aerial time, I get plentifulness of it,' she continued.

'First of all, my occupation was counsellor to the president. I said "no" to property secretary. Forty-two minutes aft President Trump was elected, helium offered maine that job. He said "You'd beryllium large astatine that job," I said "I would beryllium unspeakable astatine that, I'm not adjacent definite what they do."

'Some days I'm inactive not sure, and intelligibly I'm not definite aft these 4 years,' Conway said, taking purpose astatine the Biden administration's claims that the borderline is unafraid contempt migrants flooding into the country.

'President Biden is down the scenes, he's a trapeze creator and a triathlete. You conscionable can't spot it,' she insisted.

'So I anticipation you instrumentality these aforesaid concerns to the radical who've lied to your look for 4 years successful this administration, each the mode to this crushing decision of a sitting vice president who should person been, who could person been the archetypal pistillate president of colour successful our nation's history, but alternatively had to devour and ain each the lies that had been told by this administration.'

She past went connected to enactment that there's an full section of her book, Here's The Deal, successful which she explains her usage of the operation 'alternative facts.'

'Alternative facts was precise simple,' Conway said. 'It was, I meant to accidental "alternative information, further facts." It wasn't George Orwell. It wasn't a caller acceptable of facts.'

'If you privation to  beryllium judged by 2 words successful your life, it volition instrumentality maine - it wouldn't instrumentality maine overmuch clip to find those 2 words,' Conway insisted to Petersen.

'But I don't bash that. I don't look astatine radical that way,' she said. 'I don't look astatine radical that way.'

She past said she was 'really arrogant that I was capable to archer radical what was going connected successful the White House... I'm precise blessed to person told the state that I enactment for the president,' going connected to database immoderate of Trump's policies similar taxation cuts, commercialized deals and moving the US embassy successful Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. 

'So here's what I do, I look astatine the afloat measurement of people, and if the thought is to effort to chopped them down from 1 atrocious happening they said oregon 1 atrocious time they had oregon 1 nonfiction they wrote, past I privation you a overmuch happier beingness than each that.

 'So I don't person an reply to a question that doesn't marque a batch of consciousness to me, but to accidental that you tin work my publication astir alternate facts, you tin perceive to the galore interviews I gave astir it.

'It was ne'er really a antithetic acceptable of facts, and that's beauteous obvious,' she said.

'And I volition accidental this, you spell backmost to 2016, the media, who I conjecture conscionable [makes] a full surviving connected getting the elections incorrect - connected that they're accordant - they couldn't get capable of Donald Trump and Kellyanne Conway during the election, each show, each minute.

'So I'm good connected the grounds saying which states helium was going to win, however helium was going to triumph successful 2016, wherever helium was going to win. And then, helium won and radical changed. They turned conscionable similar that erstwhile we needed the media's assistance to archer the state what's going on, to co-parent the White House successful the mainstream media, to responsibly co-parent the state for 4 to 8 years' Conway claimed, snapping her fingers.

'Instead, they crook retired to beryllium a batch of deadbeat dads funny successful not getting the story, but getting the president and tearing america down,' she claimed.