Posted on 01/22/2017 4:53:29 PM PST by BenLurkin
Counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway said she "didn't see the point" to the Women's March on Washington on Saturday.
"I frankly didn't see the point. I mean you have a day after [President Trump] is uplifting and unifying, and you have folks here being on a diatribe....
Conway also addressed the celebrity presence at the march in Washington, D.C., which was one of hundreds such demonstrations Saturday around the U.S. and the world that drew over a million participants. She called out Madonna for using "profanity-laced" language.
"You have celebrities from the podium using profanity-laced insults. You have a very prominent singer who's worth hundreds of millions of dollars not going over to a woman's shelter here in D.C. to write a check, but instead saying that she thought of, quote, 'burning down the White House,'" Conway said.
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Conway said she "briefly" talked to Trump about the march, adding, "We certainly respect people's First Amendment rights."
She also noted that the Democratic Party's political leaders -- former President Barack Obama and 2016 presidential nominee Hillary Clinton -- didn't make an appearance at any of the marches Saturday.
"The other thing I would just mention, George, is, guess who was conspicuous by their absence yesterday? President Obama, Secretary Clinton -- they were at the, they were up on the platform applauding and embracing President Trump" at the inauguration...
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Absolutely!
‘’I was part of a 30 million woman march in November. We marched our asses right into a voting booth and voted Donald J Trump for President of the United States.’’ — Kimberly West- Mariotti
I doubt that the people who were marching expected her to.
They are caught up in something they don’t even understand. They simply want to march. Most of them, like my niece who has three children and lives a safe suburban life, probably don’t even know what the marched for.
Here is my niece’s response when I asked her if the riots on inauguration day were, in a sense, justified.
You should have responded to her how would she have felt if you had joined conservatives in protesting Obama inauguration with violence ?
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