Urging Americans to buy Ivanka Trump’s clothing line was “a textbook case of violation of the law” by White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee said Sunday.
“Anybody else would be subject to a minimum of probably a reprimand or they could literally lose their job over this,” Rep. Elijah Cummings, the panel’s ranking member, told ABC’s “This Week.”
During an appearance on Fox News last week, Conway told viewers to “go buy Ivanka’s stuff” after Nordstrom pulled her clothing and accessories line from their stores nationwide.
“I hate shopping but I’m going to go get some for myself today,” Conway had said.
The comments drew outrage from Democrats and Republican House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz, who said Conway’s remarks were “wrong, wrong, wrong.”
Chaffetz and Cummings have urged the Office of Government Ethics to review the incident and recommend that the White House take disciplinary action against Conway.
“We want them to take a thorough look,” Cummings said Sunday.
