DJ Kellyanne Conway was spinning on the ABC airwaves this morning, showing off her skills for remixing the facts. She defused questions about her heated panel session with Hillary Clinton aides Thursday night. She insisted her boss, Donald Trump, was not playing politics when he got his running mate's state government to pay off Carrier to keep some jobs in America. It was all rosy up until interviewer George Stephanopoulos decided to put his foot down on one issue in particular: The president-elect's patently false Twitter claim that there was widespread voter fraud in last month's election. A veteran of defending the indefensible, Conway for once looked flustered as she continually tried to dodge the line of questioning:

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Conway veered off repeatedly to talk about the popular vote, the recount in Michigan and Pennsylvania—anything other than the question at hand. The only time she touched the false tweet, Conway had this to say:

"To your question, the president-elect has been talking to different people, including Kris Kobach of Kansas, about voting irregularities or the number of illegal votes that may have been cast, and I believe that he based his information on that."

Kris Kobach: You may remember him as the guy who doesn't know how to use a folder. So President Trump, like candidate Trump, will talk to people—the best people—and then tell us what they said. And it's true because he heard it and then he said it? No evidence needed? When Stephanopoulos asked, point-blank, if Trump's claim was true, Conway short-circuited for a second, pretending her earpiece was broken and she couldn't hear. Then she defaulted to the Catch-22 un-splaining that "the president-elect is receiving information" and he's "relating how he feels to the people."

Of course, considering the Trump team's attitude towards facts and the very concept of objective reality, this shouldn't be a surprise. Truthiness now rules the day. And considering Trump supposedly talked to Kobach, a four-star general in the war on voting, Trump's new view on "voter fraud" is no shock, either.

Again: why would a victorious candidate contest the legitimacy of an election he already won? Normally, the political wisdom would be to accept the results here. The digs about how he lost the popular vote by more than 2.5 million are clearly getting to him. Who among us, though, has not undermined ourselves to save face on Twitter? And if we had someone to un-splain it away like this, wouldn't we do it more often?

Jack Holmes Politics Editor Jack Holmes is the Politics Editor at Esquire, where he writes daily and edits the Politics Blog with Charles P Pierce.

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