Conway: Getting ‘Dragged’ Through Impeachment Wasn’t MLK Jr.’s ‘Vision’

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 02: Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway talks to reporters outside the West Wing following a television interview with FOX News at the White House July 02, 2019 in Washington, DC. Conway... WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 02: Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway talks to reporters outside the West Wing following a television interview with FOX News at the White House July 02, 2019 in Washington, DC. Conway berated reporters as they asked her about President Donald Trump's planned speech on the Fourth of July. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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On the eve of the Senate impeachment trial, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway somehow found a way to argue against impeachment by invoking Martin Luther King Jr.’s name on his namesake holiday.

When asked during an interview on MSNBC Monday how President Trump plans to observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Conway said that he’s gearing up for Davos and “agrees with many of the things that Dr. Martin Luther King stood for” in one breath.

“The President is preparing for Davos and agrees with many of the things that Dr. Martin Luther King stood for and agreed with for many years, including unity and equality,” Conway said.

Conway then elaborated on her Trump-King comparison by launching into a rant about how the President is “not the one trying to tear the country apart through an impeachment process,” much like how it was not “within Dr. King’s vision to have Americans dragged” through impeachment.

“I’ve held my opinion on it for a very long time, but when you see the articles of impeachment they came out, I don’t think it was within Dr. King’s vision to have Americans dragged through a process where the President is not going to be removed from office, is not being charged with bribery, extortion, high crimes or misdemeanors,” Conway said.

Conway added that she thinks that “anybody who cares about ‘and justice for all’ today or any day of the year will appreciate the fact that now the President now will have a full-throttle defense on the facts, and everybody should have that.”

Watch Conway’s remarks below:

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  1. There’s just no bottom to all of this.

  2. Avatar for tena tena says:

    I think this may end up winning the award for:

    Stupidest thing a white person said in 2020.

  3. “…and everybody should have that.” Like most of her clan, she just strings together rhythmic-sounding words that don’t mean crap.

    She and the others are like other-worldly entities, like in the new Color Out of Space movie. We can’t understand what they want because they’re…alien.

  4. Kellyanne sounds a little bit more wackadoodle than normal. There must be something in the water in the WH. Did they drain the swamp with all the various poisons and that’s what they’re all drinking?

  5. Avatar for meri meri says:

    Someone should suggest that Trump use a Ouija board on live TV to prove his point.

    Think of the ratings!

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