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Kellyanne Conway Says Melania Trump Deserves Credit For People Living Longer Lives

The CDC reported Thursday U.S. life expectancy rose for the first time in four years, thanks to a drop in deaths from drug overdoses and cancer.

What’s driving those improvements? Well, the better question would be “who?” if White House adviser Kellyanne Conway has it right:

‘This has not happened through coincidence, it’s happened through causation. It’s owing in large part to a whole-of-government approach to treat the whole person led by President Trump, first lady Melania Trump, and really the entire administration.’

Conway, a fierce and often delusional supporter of President Donald Trump, said those words during a press conference on Thursday, where she was grilled about the impeachment trial.

As for the report, life expectancy reached 78.7 years in 2018, a bump of about a month, on average, from the prior year. Despite the uptick, the number is still lower compared to the peak of 78.9 years that Americans reached in 2014.

Conway offered no proof of her claims that a “whole of government approach to treat the whole person” effort actually exists, despite her tweeting that phrase out last year. Nor did she offer proof if it does exist it has had any impact.

Twitter was sickened:

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