Bad blood between Kellyanne Conway and Molly Jong-Fast sends DC into frenzy
It’s the Jong-Fast and the Furious!
Word from DC is that, in a town characterized by nothing so much as its bitter factions, rank suspicion and entrenched, warring interests, the most acrimonious clash of the moment may not be the one between Democrats and Republicans but the one between liberal media darling Molly Jong-Fast and Trumpworld power broker Kellyanne Conway.
Almost as soon as the festivities for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner began Saturday morning, Page Six heard a flurry of increasingly wild accounts about the pundit/pol pair at various boozy fêtes 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 wonks getting overexcited about being invited to a party, the bottom line is pretty obvious: These two hate each other.
Both say they scarcely give the other a moment’s thought. But that seems to be something of an alternative fact in both cases.
The cold light of day suggests that at some point during the run-up to the big bash, Conway spotted the “Fast Politics” podcaster and told her, “You’re a mess!” (Conway declined to comment on the alleged barb.)
And that Jong-Fast then told more or less 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 pal of Conway’s estranged husband, George, co-founder of the Lincoln Project — was the first to publicly hint (albeit cryptically) at the Conways’ impending divorce.
In March, Vanity Fair special correspondent Jong-Fast asked George on her show if “there’s going to be a change in your life.” He replied: “It’s possible.” (Page Six first made sense of the exchange, reporting that the most bizarre Beltway couple in recent memory was kaput.)
Kellyanne told us, “I’ve never had a conversation with this person in my life … She does love 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 that.”
It makes the RNC and the DNC seem like snuggle buddies.
