Last Thursday night, Conway referred to a terrorist act that never occurred. “I bet it’s brand new information to people that President Obama had a six-month ban on the Iraqi refugee program after two Iraqis came here to this country, were radicalized and were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre,” she said on “Hardball” with Chris Matthews. “Most people don’t know that because it didn’t get covered.”

Live TV has weak defenses against quickly spoken falsehoods, and so it took a while for Conway’s statement about Bowling Green to get properly debunked:

The next morning, Conway tweeted:

Isolated mistake? Maybe not. Cosmopolitan.com reports that she’d used even more hardened language in a Jan. 29 interview: “He did, it’s a fact,” said Conway of President Obama. “Why did he do that? He did that for exactly the same reasons. 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.”

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CNN declined to welcome Conway onto the set of Jake Tapper’s “State of the Union” over the weekend. The reasons? Because Team Trump volunteered her instead of Vice President Mike Pence, but also because of “serious questions about her credibility,” according to the New York Times. Once that story gained some attention online, Conway fled to Twitter with all the confidence of a truth referee:

The hammering of Conway even metastasized into a bi-network affair: