George Conway, husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, gave a rare interview Thursday during which he called President Donald Trump’s tweets “corrosive” and replied “no comment” when asked if he feels that the President is stable.
“The tweets, like the witch hunt tweets, like this morning’s tweets, they’re corrosive,” Conway said on the Yahoo News podcast “Skullduggery.” “And even if they don’t actually have a legal effect and they’re not executed with a order of any sort, they have a corrosive effect, I think, over the medium-to-long term in the perceptions of the public on…how the system operates.”
He also said that while he considered Trump the “lesser of two evils” when he voted for him over Hillary Clinton in 2016, he’s not so sure that’s true anymore. “If faced with the choice again, I’d probably move to Australia,” he quipped.
When the inevitable questions came about the rift between his beliefs and those of his wife, he shrugged it off.
“I don’t think she likes it,” Conway said of his wife’s reaction to his very public denunciations of the administration. “But I’ve told her, I don’t like the administration, so it’s even.”
“If I had a nickel for everybody in Washington who disagrees with their spouse on something that happens in this town, I wouldn’t be on this podcast,” he continued. “I’d be probably on a beach somewhere. And the fact of the matter is, when it comes down to things we disagree about, we agree on most policy things.”
Listen to the full interview here.
Assuming they have a strong marriage, this could be an attempt to mitigate the damage done to her when this all comes crumbling down. “My husband knew what was going on and the demons I battled, but as a loyal American my job was to keep Trump in line, blah blah blah”.
Oh, yeah, and then she’ll get a regular CNN slot…
No need to comment on stability when there is none.
I totally agree…I think she will jerk her thumb towards George and say ‘I’m with HIM!!!’
Just another ardent right-winger (he voted for Trump because Hillary was sooooo bad) flaunting his new found cred and celebrity because he is willing to say something negative about the worst human being ever elected to the presidency. Good for him I guess.
In that case you’re an immoral monster, since she’s not only said she’s in agreement with Trump’s fascist policies but she’s vigorously defended them on countless occasions. If this is all just mercenary posturing and she doesn’t actually believe these things, then she should resign and say so, but she will already have helped cause immense damage.
It sounds to me like you’re another Republican who basically believes in the same things that Trump does but you have a problem with his uncouthness, which amounts to supporting the push for dictatorship but objecting to some of the cosmetics.