Kellyanne Conway Cited Nonexistent ‘Bowling Green Massacre’ Before MSNBC Interview

Kellyanne Conway received significant blowback for referring to the non-existent “Bowling Green Massacre” last week, but it wasn’t the first time the White House counselor used the poor choice of words, according to Cosmopolitan.

“On @hardball @NBCNews @MSNBC I meant to say “Bowling Green terrorists” as reported here,” she wrote, followed by a link to a 2013 ABC News story about two Iraqi refugees who were arrested in Bowling Green, Kentucky after it was discovered they had been trained by al-Qaeda and had attacked U.S. troops in their home country.

[...] Cosmopolitan reported that Conway even elaborated in the magazine version of the false statement, saying, “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.”

 “I bet it’s brand new information to people that President Obama had a six-month ban on the Iraqi refugee program,” Conway told Matthews, after two Iraqis came here to this country, were radicalized and they were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre.