The feud between Kellyanne Conway and Molly Jong-Fast sends DC into a frenzy
It’s the Jong-Fast and the Furious!
DC’s word is that, in a city characterized by its bitter factions, suspicions and entrenched belligerent interests – the most acrimonious clash at the moment may not be between Democrats and Republicans, but between liberal media darlings Molly Jong-Fast and Trumpworld power broker Kellyanne Conway.
Almost as soon as the White House Correspondents’ Dinner festivities began Saturday morning, Page Six heard a flurry of increasingly wild tales of the pundit/pol couple at various boozy parties and smoochy get-togethers.
While many of the frothier claims seem to be the result of a heady mix of too much Trump Winery chardonnay and policy buffs getting excited about being invited to a party, the result is pretty obvious: these two to hate each other.
Both say they hardly think of each other. But it seems to be something of an alternate fact in both cases.
The cold daylight suggests that at some point during the build-up to the big party, Conway spotted the “Fast Politics” podcaster and said, “You’re a mess!” (Conway declined to comment on the alleged beard). And that Jong-Fast then more or less told everyone that Conway was menacingly following her around the party circuit.
The disagreement seems to stem from the fact that the former Vogue writer – a longtime friend of Conway’s ex-husband George, co-founder of the Lincoln Project – was the first to publicly (albeit cryptically) allude ) to the impending divorce of the Conways.
In March, Jong-Fast asked George on his show if “there is going to be a change in your life.” He replied: “It is possible. (Page Six first made sense of the swap, reporting that the most bizarre Beltway couple in recent memory were kaput).
Kellyanne told us, “I’ve never had a conversation with this person in my life. . . She likes the attention, though, and knows it’s easier to get it with my name attached.
Jong-Fast told us, “My association with her does me no good, I promise you.”
Makes the RNC and DNC look like cuddly buddies.