Kellyanne Conway blasts Taylor Lorenz in new book for reporting on her 15-year-old daughter’s TikTok account

Kellyanne Conway is taking purpose on the New York Occasions and one in all its former reporters, Taylor Lorenz, over a 2020 fiasco that highlighted social media posts made by her then-15-year-old daughter, Claudia Conway.

Conway, who served as senior counselor to former President Trump throughout his tenure within the White Home, writes in her new e book, “This is the Deal,” that she was first made conscious of the reporting on her daughter when a Yahoo! Information reporter contacted her by way of textual content message and requested whether or not she was “following” the protection of Claudia’s TikTok movies.

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Conway acknowledged in her e book that Claudia was free to kind her personal opinions and mentioned she inspired her to take action whereas rising up. She additionally acknowledged that folks grew to know who she was merely due to her household’s place within the public highlight.

“Folks seen her as soon as digital camera shy and now twice bitten by Twitter father, in one in all her TikToks and realized who she was,” Conway wrote of her daughter. “Amongst them was a thirty-five-year-old web tradition and expertise ‘reporter’ from the New York Occasions named Miss Taylor Lorenz, who has blue blood and skinny pores and skin.”

Additional describing Lorenz, Conway mentioned that when her “ways or veracity are challenged or the slightest little bit of her personal foul drugs is positioned on her lips, she screams sexism, sends up a misery name to the Occasions mom ship, and retreats.”

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Conway quickly found that the New York Occasions had allowed Lorenz to internet collectively progressive, anti-Trump TikTok movies right into a Twitter thread that gave leeway, in accordance with Conway, to anybody who wished to “paw by means of the each day particulars of my teenage daughter’s life and no matter ideas and feelings may need handed by means of her lively thoughts.”

Claudia Conway participates within the American Idol competitors
(Eric McCandless by way of Getty Pictures)

After Lorenz reported on Claudia’s movies and social media posts, Conway mentioned Claudia began receiving “viral” suggestions from different TikTok customers that made her an “in a single day sensation.”

Conway mentioned she felt fast “terror for Claudia’s security” after discovering out concerning the work Lorenz had accomplished. “Immediate fame brings instantaneous chaos as I properly know,” Conway wrote.

Conway mentioned within the e book that she knowledgeable her husband, George Conway, an lawyer and political activist, who appeared detached concerning the scenario.

“What would you like me to do?” he requested his spouse earlier than hanging up the telephone. Conway, who wrote that she didn’t get a lot sleep the night time she was made conscious of the scenario, mentioned she made a number of makes an attempt to contact her husband quickly after, however she couldn’t attain him. “He wouldn’t reply one other name or take any of my determined texts,” she wrote.

On this Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017 photograph, President-elect Donald Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, middle, accompanied by her husband, George.
(AP Photograph/Matt Rourke)

After studying concerning the sensation her daughter had acquired over the TikTok movies, Conway mentioned she discovered that Lorenz had reached out to her daughter and questioned her concerning the movies. At one level, Conway wrote, Lorenz informed her daughter that if she did not really feel “comfy” with the scenario then she might present her mother and father with Lorenz’s telephone quantity.

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Finally, Conway was capable of contact an array of Occasions editors relating to the scenario. Conway mentioned some editors defended Lorenz, however these in increased positions lastly acquired again together with her and informed her that no extra tales can be written concerning the movies. Based on Conway, it was too late and the “injury is finished.”

Conway mentioned her daughter didn’t wish to take away the posts from her account and said within the e book that different media shops started to achieve out to her daughter.

Washington Put up columnist Taylor Lorenz.
(MSNBC)

“As soon as the Occasions opened the door, different media shops blew proper by means of their very own inside protocols – assuming they’d any – to get to Claudia, DMing our fifteen-year-old little one and flooding her with interview requests and guarantees of different goodies.”

Conway mentioned her daughter “has expressed remorse for a number of the issues she mentioned and did on-line” and famous that she acquired extra protection than Hunter Biden, 52, in 2020.

“My underage daughter turned information, however not Joe Biden’s dirtbag grownup son,” Conway wrote.

Earlier this yr, Lorenz, now a reporter for the Washington Put up, made headlines after she doxxed the person behind the Libs of TikTok account.

Conway’s new e book hit cabinets Tuesday.