Tag: George Conway

‘Uncomplicatedly, Flatly Wrong’: Kellyanne Conway’s Husband Demolishes Trump’s Claim that Special Counsels Are ‘Unconstitutional’

The following article by Cody Fenwick was posted on the AlterNet website June 11, 2018:

He refutes the legal arguments — and also takes a few swipes at the president himself.

Credit: Gage Skidmore

The bizarre tensions between White House counselor Kellyanne Conway and her husband George Conway have been evident for a while now — but the sharp division in their views of President Donald Trump have perhaps never been as evident as they are now.

In a new article for Lawfare, George Conway dismantles the argument that special counsel Robert Mueller’s appointment is unconstitutional — one of Trump’s recent attacks on the Russia investigation. George Conway has been a notable critic of Trump for months, but nothing stands as quite a rebuke to a president as questioning his understanding of the Constitution, even while Kellyanne Conway remains one of Trump’s most fervent and shameless defenders. Continue reading “‘Uncomplicatedly, Flatly Wrong’: Kellyanne Conway’s Husband Demolishes Trump’s Claim that Special Counsels Are ‘Unconstitutional’”

George Conway is the man at the center of everything

The following article by Ben Terris was posted on the Washington Post website May 14, 2017:

George Conway, seen with wife Kellyanne Conway at an inaugural party in January, “is somebody who likes to be in the mix, where the action is,” says a friend. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

If it weren’t for George Conway, the nation might never have met Monica Lewinsky, and Donald Trump might never have met Kellyanne.

In the 1990s, George was a quiet but critical presence in what Hillary Clinton would dub a “vast right-wing conspiracy” — a hotshot young attorney working to undermine President Bill Clinton by offering secret legal aid to his accusers and reportedly funneling salacious details to the Drudge Report. “This one disgruntled New York lawyer almost single-handedly brought down the president,” David Brock, the conservative provocateur-turned-Clinton acolyte, later wrote. Continue reading “George Conway is the man at the center of everything”