In a Monday morning appearance on Fox & Friends, Kellyanne Conway defended President Trump against allegations that he fueled the Islamophobic global political climate that contributed to Friday's mosque terrorist attacks in New Zealand. Conway's rabid defense of Trump is nothing new, but during the interview she made the horrifying suggestion that the public read the shooter's manifesto.

"[The shooter] put out a seventy page manifesto," said Conway, "and I guess everybody scoured it, searched for Donald Trump’s name and there it is, one time."

"But he also said he aligns closely with the ideology of China, he said he’s not a conservative, he’s not a Nazi, he’s—I think he referred to himself as an eco-naturalist or an eco-fascist. But people should read the entire—in its entirety."



Experts are unanimous in advising that the public not read the New Zealand shooter's manifesto because terrorists write such screeds in hopes of spreading their toxic ideologies. "The manifesto is bait," wrote Joan Donovan, director of Harvard's Social Change Research Project, on Twitter. "It is loaded with keywords that lead down far-right rabbit holes. Do not repost."

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.@KellyannePolls is on @foxandfriends urging people to read the New Zealand shooter's entire bigoted manifesto in which he describes Trump as "a symbol of renewed white identity & common purpose," because she thinks studying it will somehow prove Trump didn't really inspire him. pic.twitter.com/W8v8gpaEyX — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 18, 2019

Instead, journalists have analyzed the manifesto and offered the public its key takeaways. The shooter did insist he's not a Nazi, placing him in the company of fellow self-proclaimed non-Nazis Richard Spencer and David Duke, but he identified himself as a racist and wrote that he supported Trump as a "symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose."

While Conway was defending Trump on Fox, her attorney husband George tweeted conjecture about the president's mental health. George Conway is an outspoken Trump critic, but his resistance grifting is undermined by the fact that his wife is among the president's most feckless attack dogs.

George tweeted screenshots from the DSM's official psychiatric diagnostic criteria for Narcissistic Personality and Antisocial Personality Disorders in a bit of not-so-subtle speculation that the president may be afflicted with one or both illness.

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"Americans should be thinking seriously *now* about Trump’s mental condition and psychological state," he tweeted, "including and especially the media, Congress—and the Vice President and Cabinet."

Apparently Counselors to the President need not trouble themselves as to the president's mental and psychological condition—when asked by reporters this morning whether or not she agrees with her husband, Conway said she doesn't share her husband's concerns.



Gabrielle Bruney Gabrielle Bruney is a writer and editor for Esquire, where she focuses on politics and culture.

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