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 You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more ||||| After President Trump tweeted about his controversial travel ban Monday morning, plenty of people quickly pointed out that he probably was hurting his case. Among them: George Conway, a prominent lawyer who is married to top Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway and nearly became a Trump appointee. 
 
 Quoting one of the president’s messages, George Conway wrote on his Twitter account that Trump’s tweets “may make some ppl feel better, but they certainly won’t help OSG get 5 votes in SCOTUS, which is what actually matters. Sad.” 
 
 OSG is an abbreviation for the Office of Solicitor General, and SCOTUS is an abbreviation for the Supreme Court. Conway’s account is not verified, but he confirmed it was his in an email to The Washington Post. 
 
 [Trump’s latest tweets will likely hurt effort to restore travel ban] 
 
 Last week, Conway had removed himself from consideration to head the Justice Department’s Civil Division, which defends presidential policies from lawsuits. Lawyers in the division had actually been defending the president’s travel bans, although as the legal wrangling reached the appeals courts, Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey B. Wall argued the cases in court. 
 
 (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post) 
 
 Conway cited timing as the reason he could not take the job, and he said he was happy to have been considered. 
 
 “I am profoundly grateful to the President and to the Attorney General for selecting me to serve in the Department of Justice. I have reluctantly concluded, however, that, for me and my family, this is not the right time for me to leave the private sector and take on a new role in the federal government,” Conway said in a statement. “Kellyanne and I continue to support the President and his Administration, and I look forward to doing so in whatever way I can from outside the government.” 
 
 Kellyanne Conway is one of the Trump’s most vocal supporters, appearing on television frequently to tirelessly support the president’s policies. She told Fox News Channel earlier this year that she thought the president’s revised travel ban would “pass legal muster,” and on the “Today” show on Monday, she defended the order again, deriding what she called “this obsession with covering everything he says on Twitter and very little of what he does as president.” She added later: “This president, through his travel ban, is trying to do something to protect the people of this country.” 
 
 George Conway did not criticize the ban itself, instead focusing on the president’s remarks as possibly hurting the case to restore it. 
 
 Later, he added on Twitter: “I still VERY, VERY STRONGLY support POTUS, his Admin, policies, the executive order and of course, my wonderful wife. 
 
 “Which is why I said what I said this morning,” he added. “Every sensible lawyer in WHCO and every political appointee at DOJ wd agree with me (as some have already told me). The pt cannot be stressed enough that tweets on legal matters seriously undermine Admin agenda and POTUS — and those who support him, as I do, need to reinforce that pt and not be shy about it.” 
 
 Federal judges have consistently cited Trump’s public comments in ordering the travel ban frozen, determining that his statements show that his intent in signing the directive was not to protect national security, but rather to discriminate against Muslims. 
 
 The ban is now headed to the Supreme Court, where those suing are expected to file legal briefs next week. ||||| poster="http://v.politico.com/images/1155968404/201706/1710/1155968404_5460302417001_5460291749001-vs.jpg?pubId=1155968404" true Conway slams media for 'obsession' with Trump's tweets 
 
 Criticism directed at President Donald Trump over his flurry of Twitter activity related to the London terrorist attack over the weekend is misguided, counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway said Monday morning, the result of media that she suggested is eagerly critical of Trump, even amid more pressing situations. 
 
 The media, Conway said, has “this obsession with covering everything he says on Twitter and very little of what he does as president.” Conway blamed that obsession for the uproar that began over the weekend when Trump hurled a political attack across the Atlantic, writing online that there had been “at least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is ‘no reason to be alarmed!’" 
 
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 The quote selected by Trump was a misleading one. London Mayor Sadiq Khan had not downplayed the seriousness of the terrorist attacks but had sought to reassure residents that they should not be alarmed by an increased police presence. In response to the president’s tweet, a spokesman for the mayor said “he has more important things to do than respond to Donald Trump’s ill-informed tweet that deliberately takes out of context his remarks.” 
 
 But Conway chafed Monday morning on NBC’s “Today” when asked if the president owes Khan an apology for misleadingly quoting him. 
 
 “I'm not going to allow, a day-and-a-half after terrorists did it again, whether they're ISIS-inspired or ISIS-directed, they're savage murderers, it's an evil slaughter as the president said last night,” the counselor to the president said. “I'm going to not let him be seen as the perpetrator here. For every time you said Russia, imagine if you said ISIS. Every time you say Twitter, imagine if you said terrorist.” 
 
 Conway disputed the notion that Trump’s tweets represent his most relevant remarks on the subject of the weekend’s attacks in London. Instead, she pointed to the president’s repeated interactions with British Prime Minister Theresa May and his remarks at the Ford’s Theatre Annual Gala, where he declared that “this bloodshed must end. This bloodshed will end.” 
 
 “So we've got the 23rd ISIS-inspired or -directed attack taking innocent lives, children in Manchester, children in Nice and we want to know — we want to put some blameworthiness here on president Trump?” she continued. “I'm just not going to allow it.” 
 
 ||||| Kellyanne Conway wants everyone — especially the media — to know that President Trump should not be “seen as the perpetrator” in the aftermath of Saturday's terrorist attack in London and that he definitely does not deserve “some blameworthiness.” 
 
 Huh? Who said otherwise? 
 
 Certainly not “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie, who interviewed Conway on Monday. Yet the counselor to the president seemed to imagine an incendiary charge that Trump bore responsibility for the attack just so she could knock it down. 
 
 Call it a highly calculated persecution complex — one designed to make the media seem as outrageous as possible. 
 
 Kellyanne Conway, White House counselor and President Trump's former campaign manager, keeps giving televised interviews that dominate the news cycle – sometimes due to misconstrued facts, or falsehoods. (Peter Stevenson/The Washington Post) 
 
 The “Today” interview began with Guthrie asking Conway whether Trump owes an apology to London Mayor Sadiq Khan after tweeting this: 
 
 At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is "no reason to be alarmed!" — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 4, 2017 
 
 Khan's office accused Trump of deliberately taking the mayor's words out of context. Khan had addressed Londoners in a television interview on the morning after the attack and said the following: “You will see an increased police presence today, including armed officers and uniformed officers. There is no reason to be alarmed by this.” 
 
 The mayor clearly meant that Londoners should not be alarmed by the sight of police, but Trump's tweet misleadingly suggested that Khan, who is Muslim, had said there is no reason to be alarmed by the attack itself. 
 
 Conway deflected Guthrie's question and sought to focus on the words of solidarity Trump delivered to British Prime Minister Theresa May in a phone call. Then came this exchange: 
 
 CONWAY: I'm not going to allow, on the day and a half after terrorists did it again — whether they're ISIS-inspired or ISIS-directed, they're savage murderers; it's an evil slaughter, as the president said last — I'm going to not let him be seen as the perpetrator here. For every time you said Russia, imagine of you said ISIS. Every time you say Twitter, imagine if you said terrorist. Maybe we'd have a different type of vigilance. GUTHRIE: But, Kellyanne, in fairness, he's setting the agenda. He's the president. He speaks; the reporters cover what he says. CONWAY: And what did he say to Theresa May? What did he say to Theresa May? GUTHRIE: He did say that to Theresa May, but most of his quotes had to do with either his own political concern, the travel ban, which he's been having four more tweets about that this morning, and a misleading attack on London's mayor. So, my question to you was simply does he owe an apology to London's mayor for quoting him in a misleading and inaccurate way? CONWAY: So, we've got the 23rd ISIS-inspired or -directed attack, taking innocent lives — children in Manchester, children in Nice — and we want to know, we want to put some blameworthiness here on President Trump? I'm just not going to allow it. 
 
 This is a first-rate straw man construction — and it is not a fluke. It is one of the Trump White House's leading media strategies. 
 
 Remember what national security adviser H.R. McMaster said in the White House's first response to a Washington Post report that Trump had divulged of classified information to Russian diplomats? “At no time — at no time — were intelligence sources or methods discussed,” the general said. 
 
 The Post report did not accuse Trump of discussing sources and methods. McMaster (or whoever wrote the statement) invented the accusation so he could deny it. 
 
 Trump did the same thing a week later, during a visit to Israel, when he denied naming Israel as the source of the intelligence he shared with the Russians. 
 
 “Just so you understand, I never mentioned the word or the name Israel,” the president told reporters in Jerusalem. “Never mentioned it during that conversation. They're all saying I did, so you have another story wrong. Never mentioned the word Israel.” 
 
 I'll say it again: No one accused Trump of revealing the source. He created the charge so he could refute it and claim that the media had “another story wrong.” 
 
 The goal, of course, is to promote the idea that journalists, blinded by hate, are making reckless accusations against the president. When there is a dearth of real accusations to push back against, the White House seems willing to make some up.
– President Trump had choice words on Twitter for London Mayor Sadiq Khan following Saturday’s London Bridge terror attack, but senior adviser Kellyanne Conway doesn’t think an apology is needed … from Trump, at least. Instead, Conway blasted the media for its "obsession" over Trump’s tweets, reports Politico, when she was asked by Savannah Guthrie on Today whether the president’s Twitter tirade merited an apology. “I'm going to not let him be seen as the perpetrator here,” said the senior adviser, reports the Washington Post. Conway went on to claim that the media’s coverage of Trump’s tweets redirects blame onto the president. “So, we've got the 23rd ISIS-inspired or -directed attack, taking innocent lives … and we want to know, we want to put some blameworthiness here on President Trump?” she said. “I'm just not going to allow it.” Guthrie’s question stemmed from Trump’s open criticism on social media of Kahn’s message to Londoners: “You will see an increased police presence today, including armed officers and uniformed officers. There is no reason to be alarmed by this.” Critics panned Trump for taking the quote out of context when he wrote, “At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is 'no reason to be alarmed!'" The president went on to tweet about the importance of US security, referencing the travel ban he’s struggled to implement. Kellyanne Conway's husband George Conway jumped into the fray Monday on Twitter when he wrote that though the president’s posts “may make some ppl feel better,” they won't help in terms of getting the travel ban restored by the Supreme Court, the Washington Post reports. He later clarified that he still supports Trump.