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    Kellyanne Conway and the Bowling Green Massacre That Wasn't

    In an interview on Thursday, the adviser to President Donald Trump invented a massacre to justify restrictions on refugee admissions and travel from several predominantly Muslim countries.
    by Clare Foran Feb 03, 2017 4 minutes
    Source: Carlos Barria / Reuters

    On Thursday, Kellyanne Conway, a top adviser to President Donald Trump, attempted to justify the administration’s restrictions on refugee admissions and travel from several predominately Muslim countries by citing a massacre that never happened.

    “I bet it’s brand-new information to people that President Obama had a six-month ban on the Iraqi refugee program after two Iraqis came here to this country, were radicalized, and were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green Massacre. Most people don’t know that because it didn’t get covered,” Conway said during an interview on MSNBC.

    Indeed, the statement was brand-new information since, as fact checkers and media outlets quickly , there is

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