Tag: Kellyanne Conway

Watchdog Outfit Sues Over Kellyanne’s Violations Of Hatch Act

If Donald Trump won’t address the repeated Hatch Act violations of his senior adviser Kellyanne Conway, maybe the courts will do it for him.

Watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics just filed a lawsuit seeking to hold Conway accountable for her dozens of violations of the Hatch Act, the federal law prohibiting government employees from campaigning while acting in their official government capacity. The group is asking a federal district court to require the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, an independent federal investigative and prosecutorial agency, to comply with the law and file a complaint.

All of this is necessary because Conway hasn’t just broken the law, she’s absolutely reveled in breaking the law. And why wouldn’t she? After violating the Hatch Act at least 50 times on her Twitter account alone, she suffered no consequences whatsoever. In fact, she was emboldened by the charge that she broke the law, declaring in on Fox News in June that she had “First Amendment rights” to violate the act. Continue reading

Experts Say White House‘s Conway Response Raises Major Ethical Questions

The White House asserted this week that broad swaths of federal ethics regulations do not apply to people who work in the Executive Office of the President. Ethics experts say this sets the Trump White House apart from past administrations.

The administration‘s assertion was made in a letter that White House Deputy Counsel Stefan Passantino wrote regarding the controversy over White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway‘s recent ethical issues.

Passantino‘s letter said that “many regulations promulgated by the Office of Government Ethics (“OGE”) do not apply to employees of the Executive Office of the President.”

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Kellyanne Conway Loses It On Reporter Who Mentioned Her Anti-Trump Husband

The White House counselor also threatened to start delving into the personal lives of reporters.

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway mocked, berated and threatened a Washington Examiner reporter who mentioned her husband’s opposition to President Donald Trump in an article about her, as heard in audio the conservative newspaper released Thursday.

In their heated conversation, Conway lashed out at reporter Caitlin Yilek for briefly mentioning George Conway’s feelings about the president ― which he has publicly expressed frequently since Trump took office ― in an article rehashing Bloomberg News’ scoop that Trump was considering making her his new chief of staff (a possibility he has since denied).

Conway was furious that Yilek would bring up this wrinkle in her relationship with Trump. In one of the more jaw-dropping moments from the call, Conway suggests to Yilek that the White House will start digging into the personal lives of reporters who it thinks has crossed that boundary.

View the complete October 24 article by Lydia O’Connor on the Huffington Post website here.

Kellyanne Conway lashes out at Democratic voters as ‘racist and sexist’ during Ohio GOP dinner

AlterNet logoMaking an appearance at a Republican Party dinner in Columbus, Ohio, Kellyanne Conway accused Democratic voters of being “racist and sexist,” in a diatribe as she tried to boost the fortunes of her boss, President Donald Trump.

According to a report from Cincinnati.com, Conway attacked the leading Democratic presidential nominees before making her claim.

“Their top three candidates are white, career politicians in their 60s and 70s, which I have nothing against except they (Democrats) certainly do,” Conway reportedly told the crowd. “I don’t know why the heck the Democratic party electorate is so racist and sexist. I can’t figure it out.”

View the complete September 22 article by Tom Boggioni from Raw Story on the AlterNet website here.

Trump debunks Kellyanne Conway’s talking point that he’s uniting the country

The president’s White House counselor undermined her own claims as Trump disproved them.

Kellyanne Conway, President Donald Trump’s White House counselor, claimed on Tuesday morning that her boss is “trying to bring the country together” and “heal a nation” after mass shootings, at least one of which appears to have been inspired by his own anti-immigrant demagoguery. Moments later, both Conway and Trump demonstrated how dishonest that talking point was.

Conway attempted to present Trump as a statesmanlike leader, bent on staying above the fray in a time of national tragedy while others attempt to politicize the moment, during a Tuesday morning appearance on the Fox News Channel.

“It has been his desire and his intention since he learned of these tragedies over the weekend to get on the ground and visit the people there, to thank the first responders and the medical professionals, to meet those who are healing from their wounds to talk to law enforcement and federal FBI agents and others who are still on the ground offering resources and support,” she said.

View the complete August 6 article by Josh Israel on the ThinkProgress website here.

House Oversight schedules Thursday vote to hold Kellyanne Conway in contempt

The Hill logoThe House Oversight and Reform Committee on Monday officially scheduled a vote for later in the week to hold White House counselor Kellyanne Conwayin contempt of Congress after she failed to comply with a subpoena to testify about her repeated Hatch Act violations.

The panel will hold a business meeting on Thursday, at which time lawmakers will vote on whether to hold Conway in contempt. The move comes amid an ongoing battle between Democrats and the White House over compliance with congressional oversight investigations.

The committee sought Conway’s testimony at two separate hearings in recent weeks about her violations of the Hatch Act, which bars White House employees from speaking about e

View the complete July 22 article by Brett Samuels on The Hill website here.

Nicolle Wallace: ‘I Would Have Been Fired on the Spot’ If I Asked ‘What’s Your Ethnicity?’ Like Conway Did

MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace blasted White House counselor Kellyanne ConwayTuesday for asking a reporter his ethnicity in a strange exchange.

Wallace opened by saying the nation is “waiting to see if Republicans, or even a single Republican, will come out against racism today.”

The House is taking up a resolution to condemn President Donald Trump. Earlier Tuesday afternoon Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Trump’s tweets racist, and Republican Rep. Doug Collins objected and said her remarks should be stricken from the record.

View the complete July 16 article with video by Josh Feldman on the Mediaite website here.

Kellyanne Conway defies congressional subpoena at Trump’s direction

The Hill logoWhite House counselor Kellyanne Conway defied a congressional subpoena demanding her testimony Monday on instructions from President Trump, raising the likelihood the House Oversight and Reform Committee will soon vote to hold her in contempt. 

White House counsel Pat Cipollone notified the committee in a letter Monday that Trump had directed Conway to evade the appearance, arguing that she is immune from mandated congressional testimony about her work in the West Wing.

“The long-standing principle of immunity for senior advisers to the President is firmly rooted in the Constitution’s separation of powers and protects the core functions of the Presidency,” Cipollone wrote to Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) on Monday.

View the complete July 15 article by Morgan Chalfant on The Hill website here.

Kellyanne Conway’s flushable claims about the census citizenship question

Washington Post logo“Why can’t we just ask the question the way it was asked for 50 years before the Obama administration yanked it out of there? We’ve been asking questions like this — the American Community Survey every fifth year asks a similar question. And think of all the questions that nobody complains are included in our U.S. Census every 10 years that include a far, far, far smaller number of Americans or, I would argue, are much more intrusive, invasive and expansive. We’re asking people how many toilets in your house, and you don’t want to know who’s using them? It’s absolutely ridiculous, and this is why the president is fighting for its inclusion.”

— White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, in an interview on “Fox and Friends,” July 9, 2019

Conway, a seasoned pollster, got a lot wrong in this defense of President Trump’s plan to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census.

The Supreme Court last month blocked administration officials from adding the question to the census form. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote for the court that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross — who oversees the Census Bureau and approved the citizenship question — violated a federal law that required him to disclose the real reason for the change. (For more on that, read our previous fact checks here and here.)

At first, the Trump administration responded to the court decision by dropping its plans. Then the Commerce and Justice departments reversed course and began exploring whether they could insert the citizenship question while complying with Roberts’s ruling.

View the complete July 10 article by Salvador Rizzo on The Washington Post website here.

House panel votes to subpoena Kellyanne Conway over Hatch Act testimony

The Hill logoThe House Oversight and Reform Committee on Wednesday voted to subpoena White House counselor Kellyanne Conway after she did not appear voluntarily at a hearing focused on her repeated alleged violations of the Hatch Act.

The committee voted 25-16 to compel Conway’s testimony following roughly 30 minutes of arguments over the validity of the Office of Special Counsel’s (OSC) findings that she repeatedly violated the law, which prohibits federal officials from weighing in on elections in their government capacity.

Rep. Justin Amash (Mich.) was the lone Republican to side with Democrats to authorize the subpoena.

View the complete June 26 article by Brett Samuels on The Hill website here.