George Conway, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway’s husband, began criticizing President Trump on Twitter at the behest of his law firm, according to author Michael Wolff.
Siege: Trump Under Fire, which hit bookshelves Tuesday, says Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, a prominent Wall Street firm where Conway is a partner, placed “enormous pressure” on him to “distance himself from Trump and his lies.”
Wolff wrote that Conway accomplished this by tweeting barbs at Trump.
This year, the conservative lawyer has repeatedly ensnared headlines by questioning the president’s mental health and condemning his actions and comments.
Trump swung back at George Conway in March. “George Conway, often referred to as Mr. Kellyanne Conway by those who know him, is VERY jealous of his wife’s success & angry that I, with her help, didn’t give him the job he so desperately wanted. I barely know him but just take a look, a stone cold LOSER & husband from hell!” he tweeted.
Although Trump and his associates have suggested George Conway was either fired, quit, or rejected from a job at the Justice Department, he claims that he turned down a position at the agency heading the civil division. Conway contends he declined over Trump’s attacks on agency leaders and the firing of FBI Director James Comey in May 2017.
Kellyanne Conway led Trump to victory in the 2016 election as his campaign manager. She’s since been one of his most outspoken supporters, frequently tangling with reporters over Trump administration coverage.
Wolff wrote that a friend of the couple said both George and Kellyanne Conway “hate” Trump, although Kellyanne only expresses her dismay in private. The Conways, who live in the Kalorama neighborhood in Washington, D.C., keep the neighbors “happy” in the liberal-leaning enclave with George’s public diatribes against the president, according to the book.
Wolff wrote that Trump calls Kellyanne Conway “the poor man’s Ann Coulter,” referring to the outspoken conservative author who has backed the president for his hardline approach to immigration and criticized him when he has strayed away from it.
Wolff’s last book, Fire and Fury, was riddled with unsubstantiated allegations, several of which were denounced as false. His new book is already facing accusations of falsehoods, and in an interview with The New York Times the author admitted he does not check his stories with his subjects.
