Kellyanne Conway isn’t letting her marriage to a Trump hater stop her from supporting the president.
Conway told Fox News on Tuesday that she “totally disagrees” with her husband George’s assessment that President Donald Trump is a racist.
Mr. Conway, a frequent Trump critic, has attacked Trump in numerous Washington Post op-eds, exposing a political rift with his wife. In a fresh broadside this week, Mr. Conway said that Trump’s now-infamous “go home” tweets left no doubt that the commander-in-chief is a bigot.
Conflict at the Conways?
Democrats accused President Trump of staging a racist attack this week, but many supporters of the president say that Trump’s tweets about four Democratic lawmakers of color were about of the lawmakers’ anti-American policies and rhetoric, not race. Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), Ilhan Omar (MN), Rashida Tlaib (MI), and Ayanna Pressley (MA) have all endorsed an open borders policy in everything but name with calls to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other radical demands.
Conway spoke for many of the president’s supporters when she said that Democrats are using “predictable, tired” allegations of bigotry to silence any criticism of their most extreme lawmakers.
“It’s always racism, sexism, and xenophobia, and it’s getting tired,” Conway said, adding that the so-called “Squad” has “done squat in Congress,” but “supplicants” in the media give them a pass. Her take could not have been more different from that of her husband, who dashed off a scorching Washington Post op-ed titled simply: “Trump is a racist president.” He wrote:
No matter how much I found him ultimately unfit, I still gave him the benefit of the doubt about being a racist. But Sunday left no doubt. Naivete, resentment and outright racism, roiled in a toxic mix, have given us a racist president.
Kellyanne Conway told Fox that she “totally disagrees” with her husband. “I work with this president. I know his heart, I know his actions, I know how much he has helped people of color and I go by what people do, not by what other people say about them,” she said.
She went on: “Respectfully, I’m not going to run around pointing out everybody’s disagreements with the people in their lives. I sure could. I can point out people’s disagreements with their former spouses, their current spouses and partners, their future spouses and partners, but I won’t do that, and I would caution all those particular people who are going to ask me at the gaggle now not to do that.”
“If you don’t like it here, get out”
As Conway pointed out, it’s not just Republicans who see a pattern of abusing allegations of racism. Last week, top Democrats rallied to Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) defense after Ocasio-Cortez accused the House speaker of being a racist by dismissing the “Squad” in a recent interview, prompting one Democratic lawmaker to blast Ocasio-Cortez for invoking the “race card” and fracturing party unity.
Conway told host Bill Hemmer she disagrees that Trump’s tweets got in the way of the Democrats’ party implosion and echoed the president and his allies, who have focused on the anti-American “hate” that the “Squad” has shown toward the United States. Conway argued that Americans are getting fed up with the “disrespect” that the “Squad” and many on the left have shown towards the United States, its troops, and its flag.
Echoing Trump, Conway said that the message of the president’s tweets was that if somebody doesn’t like America, they’re welcome to leave. Conway noted that anti-American prejudice goes “way beyond” the four women, pointing to anti-ICE protesters who replaced an American flag with a Mexican one outside an ICE facility in Colorado last week, as well as the reluctance of “the Squad” to condemn a leftist attack in Washington state over the weekend.
Indeed, Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, and Pressley were stone silent on the firebombing assault on an ICE facility, which left the assailant dead, Breitbart reports. Ocasio-Cortez later offered a token denunciation, but the four congresswomen’s silence on the attack has been seen as tacit support for leftist terrorism, particularly amid reports that the suspect had ties to Antifa.
Echoing Republicans who have encouraged the Democrats to keep talking, Conway said that it would come to the country’s benefit to shine a bright light on the hatred brewing on the left.
“We are sick and tired of people denigrating the American flag, the American military, veterans, and America,” she said. “Keep the cameras and the microphones on, because America should see who they are.”
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