In an interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd Sunday, presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway threw a member of her own team under the bus, claiming that White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer provided “alternative facts” when he exaggerated the size of the crowd at President Trump’s inauguration ceremony.

Spicer’s “alternative facts” were delivered Saturday when he falsely asserted that Trump’s audience was “the largest ever.” Eager to undermine the media attacks about Trump’s relative unpopularity, the White House press secretary held a five-minute meeting with the press one day after the president’s to issue a statement that read in part:

"…this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period, both in person and around the globe… These attempts to lessen the enthusiasm of the inauguration are shameful and wrong."

Spicer’s claims couldn’t be further from the truth.

According to The New York Times, Trump’s audience was no more than 200,000--far below the estimates at President Obama’s 2008 and 2012 inaugurations.



Spicer’s falsehoods were systematically dismantled by multiple media outlets, forcing Conway to come to the administration’s defense.

"You're saying it's a falsehood and Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that," she told Todd on Sunday, answering questions about Spicer’s hyperbole.

Of course the bizarre locution, “alternative facts,” is nothing less than a euphemism for “lie.”

Despite Conway’s transient moment of candor, however understated, she attempted to push back against the premise of Todd’s line of questioning, arguing that “there’s no way to really quantify crowds.”

“I don't think you can prove those numbers one way or another,” she explained.

Welcome to post-truth America.

Watch Conway’s full interview with NBC below: