Posted on 03/21/2019 7:03:28 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Kellyanne Conway weighed in Thursday on the bitter Twitter feud between her husband George and President Trump, calling her spouse's criticism of her boss "unusual" while thanking Trump for defending her from what “he thinks is unfairness.”
“My husband has been very critical of the president publicly, which is unlike him because he’s usually a very private person,” she told Maria Bartiromo
In the interview, Conway spoke at length about the household tensions over her administration work, with her husband openly questioning the president's mental health and Trump publicly attacking him as a "loser" on Twitter.
“This is new," she said. "And what is also new is not supporting the agenda of the president and my work there, because when George took himself out of contention for a top job in the Department of Justice almost two years ago he put out a statement – that many in the media refuse to cover now – that we decided as a family ... it is not the right time for us both to have big jobs in the federal government … and that he still supports the president, the work of the administration and his quote, wonderful wife.
“I appreciate the president defending what he thinks is unfairness, I’ll leave that up to him, but I was raised in a household of strong Italian Catholic women who taught me you air grievances like that in private. So it is very surprising to see it be so public.”
She continued: “[The president] is protective of me, that’s what people really should take from this. I’m not being asked to choose between my marriage and my job, Donald Trump has never made me feel that way. I know George is quoted recently as saying ‘I wish she didn’t work there’.”
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She also said her effectiveness as Trump’s counselor has not been affected by Trump slamming her husband.
“Why would it affect my job? Hasn’t everybody tried to push me out already and here I am, stronger than ever,” she said. “You’re looking at it the wrong way.”
“Yesterday George spent the day tweeting about the president,” she noted. “I spent my day doing two one-hour briefings with press and intergovernmental affairs people, agency people from all across the country and then over an hour briefing that I led in the Oval Office with the president and first lady in the cabinet on opioids at one year, so this is what I do here. I think it probably looks differently if everybody is turning into ‘Gossip Girl.’”
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Nope. Still don’t like Italians. LOL
Pretty sure he is, and Trump can fight with whatever jerk he chooses to fight with.
I’m not weak, and nasty comments to nasty people don’t upset me.
ROFL!!
honesty is the best policy!
I don’t like some myself!
And I am one! :)
I was kidding. There are Dagos in my family. Italian food beats the heck out of bland Irish food, so there’s that.
DAGOs lol!!
you should see the Irish words I use :)
my nephews and nieces don’t get any of it.
There are no ethnicities or colors blah blah
When i went out with Italian and Irish guys for the night when I was young, we would DESTROY each other in the car on the way to the club and i never laughed so hard!!
hell we destroyed each other.
I had one friend whose last name was Enia.
we used to call him GuineaUH lol
to paraphrase Sebastian Montescalo the comedian:
the Irish, they have no cuisine...
Yup. Growing up I thought Chef Boyardee in a can was Italian cuisine. Real food was meat and potatoes, over cooked, thank you very much.
It’s damned unfortunate that such a good person as Ms. Conway should be saddled with such a burden.
Since when was her maiden name "Fitzpatrick" an Italian name ??
#madonn'!!!
^ She’s an Irish / Italian hybrid like me .... ;)
you know she has a mother right?
Anyone teach you how that works? :)
And reading is fundamental.
It was HER statement about growing up with strong Italian women that made her what she is.
Go buy a magazine :)
I’m not getting involved in a culture war of words!!
I just started it and then my job was done :)
Can’t divorce - they’re both good Catholics.
I had a friend whose Catholic parents despised each other. They shared the same house but slept in different rooms. No divorce due to religion.
It’s tough ... and troublesome ... having a mentally disturbed person in your own household. She’s doing the best she can.
I mean ... what can you do with a mentally disturbed person in your own household, when they refuse treatment. If they’re not an immediate danger to themselves and/or others in the immediate vicinity, you won’t get the psychiatrists to commit him. That’a just the way it is, there days.
I think everyone knows he’s mentally unstable and unbalanced, and that no one can take anything he says as real. It just reflects his mental condition more than anything else.
Go buy a sense of humor.
No, Kellyanne, unusual does not mean constantly, all the time and never ending.
He's half Filipino.
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