Kellyanne Conway blames refugees for 'Bowling Green massacre' that never happenedDonald Trump’s senior adviser uses fictional incident to justify US president’s travel ban: ‘Most people don’t know that because it didn’t get covered’
Kellyanne Conway had already faced derision for her claim that the White House was offering ‘alternative facts’. Photograph: Mark Wilson/Getty Images
Claire Phipps
Friday 3 February 2017 01.01 ESTLast modified on Friday 3 February 2017 01.12 EST
Kellyanne Conway, a senior adviser to Donald Trump, has come in for criticism and ridicule after blaming two Iraqi refugees for a massacre that never happened.
Conway, the US president’s former campaign manager who has frequently faced the press to defend his controversial moves, cited the fictional “Bowling Green massacre” in an interview in which she backed the travel ban imposed on visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries.
Interviewed by Chris Matthews on MSNBC’s Hardball programme on Thursday evening, Conway compared the executive order issued by Trump in his first week in the White House to what she described as a six-month ban imposed by his predecessor Barack Obama.
This claim has been debunked by commentators who have pointed out that the 2011 action was a pause on the processing of refugees from Iraq after two Iraqi nationals were arrested over a failed attempt to send money and weapons to al-Qaida in Iraq.
Conway told 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 radicalised and they were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre.
“Most people don’t know that because it didn’t get covered.”
It didn’t get covered, many are now pointing out, because there was no such massacre.
The two Iraqi men arrested in 2011 did live in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and are currently serving life sentences for federal terrorism offences. But there was no massacre, nor were they accused of planning one. The US department of justice, announcing their convictions in 2012, said: “Neither was charged with plotting attacks within the United States.”
Kellyanne Conway blames refugees for 'Bowling Green massacre' that never happened
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Emails, superpredator, pantsuits etc.
#trumpset spin: "she's speaking metaphorically
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#trumpset spin: "she's speaking metaphorically
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CapcomSwag
Incredible 
she is undeniably the best in the world at what she does
she is undeniably the best in the world at what she doesafterlife2009
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ExodusNirvana
Change is inevitable...
I wish the most excruciating possible pain on this woman
Alternative Facts 
I noticed that he never mentioned the recent Quebec attack on Muslims publicly. No comment from his Twitter or from the White House about that one.
It was the one where the shooter was a white altright radical who loved Trump, and the victims were attending a mosque. That one.
I need someone to spin this for me because my lefty brain can't comprehend why he would just gloss over it.
Surely he just missed it, right?
sometimes you just have to give these naturally evil people their props. i could never do what she does, wouldn't even be able to think of it. goebbels' granddaughter is putting in that work. genes are a powerful thing.
ExodusNirvana
Change is inevitable...
And this is why we don't reach across the aisle. This is why we don't try to hear them out.
Because of THIS
THIS is what they voted for. This is WHO they voted for.
Death to a Nazi a Neo Nazi and an Alt Righter. Same boat different parts of the ship.
Because of THIS
THIS is what they voted for. This is WHO they voted for.
Death to a Nazi a Neo Nazi and an Alt Righter. Same boat different parts of the ship.
Well he's removing WS from the counter-terrorism objectives. Not a surprise. He's been blatant and overt with his WS rhetoric.
