President Trump's top aide Kellyanne Conway reportedly cited the "Bowling Green massacre" days before she "misspoke" of the non-existent incident in an interview on MSNBC.

In an interview with Cosmopolitan on Jan. 29, Conway pointed to the "Bowling Green massacre," a terrorist attack that never actually occurred, to defend the president's order barring refugees and people from seven predominately Muslim countries from entering the U.S.

During the interview, Conway said former President Barack Obama Barack Hussein ObamaGOP senator blocks Schumer resolution aimed at Biden probe as tensions run high D-Day for Trump: September 29 Obama says making a voting plan is part of 'how to quarantine successfully' MORE had called for a temporary "ban on Iraqi refugees" following the "Bowling Green Massacre."

"Why did he do that? He did that for exactly the same reasons," Conway told Cosmopolitan.

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"He did that because two Iraqi nationals came to this country, joined ISIS, traveled back to the Middle East to get trained and refine their terrorism skills and come back here and were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre of taking innocent soldiers' lives away."

Conway faced backlash after referencing the "the Bowling Green massacre" during an interview last week with MSNBC's "Hardball."

"President Obama had a six-month ban on the Iraqi refugee program after two Iraqis came here to this country, were radicalized, and they were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre," Conway said during the MSNBC interview.

"Most people don't know that because it didn't get covered."

Conway later corrected herself in a tweet following the interview, which included a link to a 2013 ABC News report that referenced two terrorists from al Qaeda in Iraq who had been living in Bowling Green, Ky.

The report said the State Department halted Iraqi refugee requests for six months in 2011 as a result of the case.

Over the weekend, Conway sought to defend herself, saying she "misspoke one word." She called some of those who criticized her for the misstatement "haters."