Kellyanne Conway cited the 'Bowling Green Massacre' in TWO other interviews before she went on Hardball with Chris Matthews
- Kellyanne Conway cited the 'Bowling Green massacre' in a Cosmo interview and to a TMZ cameraman days before she made the gaffe on TV
- She was mocked for making up the tragedy days later when she mentioned it on Hardball with Chris Matthews on February 3
- Conway tweeted that it was an 'honest mistake' after the Hardball interview
Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway referenced the 'Bowling Green Massacre' two other interviews days before she used the same justification for the refugee ban on Hardball with Chris Matthews.
She mentioned the fictitious massacre to Cosmopolitan in a phone interview about the ban and to a cameraman for TMZ on January 29.
After she was lampooned for citing the 'alternative fact' on Hardball, Conway tweeted out how the mistake was a mere slip of the tongue and she really meant to say 'Bowling Green terrorists.'
She tried deflect by pointing out mistakes journalists made that week on Twitter: 'Honest mistakes abound. Last night, prominent editor of liberal site apologized for almost running a story re: tweet from fake account'
Kellyanne Conway referenced the fictitious 'Bowling Green Massacre on Hardball' with Chris Matthews and in a Cosmopolitan interview
'yet won't name him, attack him, get the base 2 descend upon him. Same with MLKJr bust fake story. It's called class, grace, deep breath.'
The interview aired on February 3, but four days earlier Conway made a similar 'honest mistake' to Cosmopolitan.
While she was saying Obama prolonged the process for Iraqi refugees from entering the country, Conway told the magazine: 'Why did [Obama] do that? He did that for exactly the same reasons.'
Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway has tried to defend her gaffe about the made-up massacre by saying she meant to say terrorists
Mohanad Shareef Hammadi and Waad Ramadan Alwan were the men Conway was referencing when she said 'Bowling Green terrorists'
'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.'
The same day she used the same reasoning to TMZ claiming Obama had similar travel restrictions: '[Obama] did that because, I assume, there were two Iraqis who came here, got radicalized, joined ISIS, and then were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green attack on our brave soldiers.'
She was referencing Mohanad Shareef Hammadi and Waad Ramadan Alwan, two Iraqi men pretending to be refugees. They pleaded guilty to federal terrorism charges in 2011 admitting to planting bombs against American soldiers while they were in Iraq between 2003 and 2006. Alwan's fingerprints were found on an unexploded IED overseas.
The Department of Justice does not mention them going back to the Middle East for training like Kellyanna Conway does. Hammadi and Alwan were arrested in Bowling Green but did not kill anyone there like the name 'Bowling Green Massacre' or 'Bowling Green terrorists' implies.
Also, the men were not planning an attack on U.S. soil.
When Cosmo followed up with Conway about her Bowling Green comment, she said: 'Frankly they were terrorists in Bowling Green but their massacre took place in Iraq. At least this got clear-thinking people to focus on what did happen in Bowling Green.'
'I gave new life to that ABC News investigative report and the fact that these two Iraqi nationals came to the US with a plan of death and destruction.'
The Cosmo and TMZ quotes are almost identical in sentiment to what Conway said on MSNBC.
She told Chris Matthews: '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 they were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green Massacre.'
'Most people don't know that because it didn't get covered.'
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