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Donald Trump named his former campaign manager Kellyanne Conway as counselor to the president on Thursday. <\/p>\n
\u201cKellyanne Conway has been a trusted adviser and strategist who played a crucial role in my victory,\u201d<\/em> Trump said in a statement. \u201cShe is a tireless and tenacious advocate of my agenda and has amazing insights on how to effectively communicate our message. I am pleased that she will be part of my senior team in the West Wing.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n READ MORE:\u00a0Trump campaign manager does not rule out special prosecutor for Hillary Clinton – MSNBC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cConway has been serving as a senior member of the president-elect’s transition team and previously served as this campaign manager of his successful run for the presidency,\u201d<\/em> a statement from Trump\u2019s transition team read.<\/p>\n The people have spoken. They chose a new direction and different leadership. Respect them. Come together. We live in a wonderful nation. 💗🇺🇸<\/p>\n \u2014 Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) November 9, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n Conway, a former law clerk and pollster, is credited with being the first woman to run a successful presidential campaign. She previously worked for Newt Gingrich and Vice President-elect Mike Pence, and appeared on various news networks as a commentator.<\/p>\n While she originally endorsed Republican candidate Ted Cruz, and described Trump as someone who \u201cliterally bulldozed over the little guy to get his way,\u201d<\/em> she became the billionaire real estate mogul\u2019s campaign manager in August after Cruz left the race.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to thank the president-elect for this amazing opportunity,\u201d<\/em> Conway said in a statement. \u201cA Trump presidency will bring real change to Washington and to Americans across this great nation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI am humbled and honored to play a role in helping transform the movement he has led into a real agenda of action and results,\u201d<\/em> she added.<\/p>\n Conway had previously suggested she wouldn\u2019t take a top position in the White House due to her four young children.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Donald Trump named his former campaign manager Kellyanne Conway as counselor to the president on Thursday. \u201cKellyanne Conway has been a trusted adviser and strategist who played a crucial role in my victory,\u201d Trump said in a statement. \u201cShe is a tireless and tenacious advocate of my agenda and has amazing insights on how to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":287259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-287258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\n