Conversation around the Conway dinner table must be super interesting these days judging how touchy Kellyanne Conway became when she responded to a question about her husband’s social media communications critical of Donald Trump.
Kellyanne Conway, one of Donald Trump’s best known advisors and defenders, is married to George Conway, a Filipino American attorney whose name was mentioned several times for key White House positions as legal counsel.
In the past month, he has raised eyebrows over his use of barrage of tweets critical of his wife’s boss.
“You just brought him into this,” she angrily accused CNN’s Dana Bash. “This ought to be fun moving forward, Dana. We’re now going to talk about other people’s spouses and significant others just because they either work at the White House or CNN? … CNN just went there.”
Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s “special assistant, accused the CNN moderator of trying to “harass and embarrass” her before giving a response that raised even more questions on what constitutes a “difference of opinion” between spouses.
“By definition, spouses have a difference of opinion when adultery is happening,” Conway said on air. “By definition, spouses have a difference of opinion when one is, I don’t know, draining the joint bank account to support things that maybe the other disagrees with. So this is a fascinating ‘cross the Rubicon’ moment.”
Conway and Bash went at it for nearly five minutes, with Bash pointing out that Trump attacked former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who was fired last month, because his wife received campaign contributions from groups tied to an ally of Hillary Clinton.
“Kellyanne, here was my whole point of this, is that you are a professional working for the president of the United States and your husband is a very well-respected lawyer,” Bash said, “and my point is that we don’t often see ― in fact, I don’t remember the last time we saw ― somebody working for the president in a high-profile position when their spouse is saying critical things about them. That is all.”
George Conway’s tweets last month chiding his wife’s boss caught the eye of many political and media pundits. On March 23, he retweeted CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins’ tweet accusing Trump of repeatedly undermining his aides.
George Conway, who Trump once considered nominating as solicitor general, has since deleted the eaerlier tweets, as well as several others that were critical of Trump’s legal issues.
Conway had to tweet that he is still a strong supporter of Trump despite his online criticism.
Huffington Post tried, but failed, to get a clarification from the White House regarding Kellyanne Conway’s comments about “adultery” and “joint bank account.” George Conway did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Kellyanne Coway, who has shown an amazing ability to befuddle interviewers by twisting interviews around so she could recite her talking points, did not appear to be on her “A” game in the Bash interview.
Apparently, George Conway’s social media postings are still a sensitive issue around the Conway house.
(Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this story misidentified the first name of Kellyanne Conway’s husband.)
