Kellyanne Conway Calls Mike Pence ‘Pro-Woman’ Based On Fake Vice President's Tweet

Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Donald Trump and an advocate for “alternative facts,” mistakenly retweeted a post from a fan account of Vice President Mike Pence, thinking it was from the latter’s real social media account.

Conway retweeted a post on Monday, from what initially seemed to be from Pence’s official Twitter account. The tweet in question criticized CNN’s editor-in-large Chris Cillizza and defended Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump’s would-be Supreme Court nominee.

“If you believe Trump makes decisions based on image and appearance (and he does), then here's the next Supreme Court Justice” Cillizza had tweeted, to which @MikePenceVP replied, “Coney Barrett graduated from a prestigious law school, was executive editor of law review, clerked on the DC Circuit and the Supreme Court. You reduced her to her looks. Disgraceful.”

Retweeting @MikePenceVP’s criticism, Conway said Pence was a “pro-woman” vice president and against “sexism.”

There was just one issue. Pence ran two verified accounts and @MikePenceVP was not one of them. The two official accounts of Pence are @VP and @MikePence. Other than that, there are an array of Twitter profiles with similar named aimed at either highlighting the vice president’s achievements or dedicated to spoofing him.

The Twitter handle @MikePenceVP belonged to a fan-run profile of the vice president where tweets praising Pence were posted. The bio of the particular page read: “Fan account. My Goal is to expose liberal hypocrisy and Fake News Bias.”

Although Conway tagged “@VP” — one of Pence’s real accounts — while compiling her tweet, it should have been a dead giveaway when it came to identifying the fake account, but, it skipped her notice. To her credit, she did try to do some damage control by deleting the tweet after realizing her mistake and replaced it with the following tweet:

But not before it went viral on Twitter. Needless to say Twitter users flooded social media with hilarious reactions:

Even as she was being spoofed because of her error on Twitter, Conway appeared on Fox News and defended Trump’s process of picking a Supreme Court nominee. She said the president was looking for someone with the experience and intellect to sit on the nation's highest court and not just a person who was passionate about certain issues.

That was why Trump was not asking nominees "specific questions on cases," she said.

As for the Democrats, Conway said the other side of the political aisle was only focused on a single topic — abortion. “I'm just amazed how yet again, the Left boils every single thing, including a Supreme Court justice, down to one issue, abortion," Conway said.

The SCOTUS was tasked with making decisions on an array of other issues, other than abortion, Conway said.

"What's with the Commerce Clause? What's with all the amendments?" she asked. "We know that they're hostile to the Second Amendment, but what about the rest of them?"

"The Supreme Court takes on any number of cases," she added. "And I think this is why you see a Democrat totally beholden to the abortion issue, almost to the exclusion of everything else."