The husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway appeared to suggest Friday that President Trump has abandoned his duty to faithfully execute the laws, a day after Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired back at the president in a rare and stunning statement.
“What everyone should want, and the country needs, is a ‘President’ capable of comprehending what it means to ‘take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,'” Conway tweeted, citing the part of Article II of the U.S. Constitution known as the “Take Care Clause.”
What everyone should want, and the country needs, is a “President” capable of comprehending what it means to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” Art. II, § 3. https://t.co/V80OUR6Z7O
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) August 24, 2018
Conway, a regular critic of the president despite his wife’s high-profile role in the West Wing, also appeared to mock Trump for declining to confront his attorney general in person during a White House meeting they both attended Thursday afternoon.
“Profile in courage,” he wrote in response to a report that Trump and Sessions “didn’t say a word about their confrontation” until Trump tweeted about it Friday morning.
Trump’s ongoing feud with Sessions took a turn for the worst Thursday, when the attorney general issued a statement promising that the Justice Department would not be “improperly influenced by political considerations.”
The back-and-forth occurred the same week that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and the president’s personal attorney Michael Cohen were found guilty of financial crimes.
“‘Department of Justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations.’ Jeff, this is GREAT, what everyone wants, so look into all of the corruption on the ‘other side’ including deleted emails, Comey lies & leaks, Mueller conflicts, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Ohr,” Trump said Friday morning, citing a list of figures tied to the special counsel investigation whom he was routinely accused of malpractice.
“Come on Jeff, you can do it, the country is waiting!” he added.
