Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway is trying to push back against the new pro-Clinton Super PAC ad showing Donald Trump saying “I love war,” but she doesn’t seem to have much to work with. Talking to George Stephanopoulos:
Conway responded that what is actually "irresponsible" is "taking little, cherry-picking little snippets of what he said and not giving the full context of the sentence let alone the speech." [...]
Asked what Trump means when he said, "I love war," Conway demurred.
"I'd have to see the entire snippet there but obviously many commanders in chief have made the very difficult decision to go to war," Conway responded. "You have Hillary Clinton as secretary of state calling a Russia reset that didn't work, she was wrong on Libya, she was wrong on Syria, she was certainly wrong on Benghazi and I think they'll both be held to account for that."
“I love war” vs. “the very difficult decision to go to war.” Do you see the difference there, between what Trump actually said and how his campaign manager is trying to spin it? And call me crazy, but I’m betting that Conway could have found the full context and cited it if it was an improvement over the quote in the ad. The fact that she didn’t says that context doesn’t help this one.