White House counselor Kellyanne Conway on Thursday blasted the U.S. official who leaked information regarding President Donald Trump’s phone call with Ukraine’s president to a whistleblower and said Trump didn’t need Ukraine to win re-election in 2020.
“I will tell you that I had read the transcript and now everybody has read the transcript … and let me tell all the viewers what’s not in that transcript,” Conway said during an appearance on Fox News. “No mention of the 2020 presidential race. No mention of aid to Ukraine. No mention of Joe Biden as a political opponent.”
“Give me a break, we don’t need Ukraine — we don’t need Ukraine to help beat Joe Biden or any of the rest of them any more than we needed Russia to beat Hillary Clinton!” she continued. “These candidates are a disaster on their own, they self-immolate, but I saw people lying today, including Intel chairman Adam Schiff, began with this contrived fantasy conversation that he imagined between President Trump —”
Conway said the person who leaked details of Trump’s phone call with Volodymyr Zelensky shouldn’t be working for the U.S. government.
"I don't consider them to be spies, but anybody who leaks conversations that are classified or are of national security sensitivity ought not to be working in the government -- whoever you are -- and I hope you're watching, whoever you are."
"You had the public's trust and you have been a public servant entrusted with top-secret and confidential information,” she added.
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