Kellyanne Conway and Chris Cuomo reignited their on-air feud while discussing the pending impeachment trial in the Senate.
Conway, 52, appeared on Cuomo Prime Time to discuss the impeachment trial on Wednesday night. The presidential counselor quickly butted heads with Cuomo after he asked why the White House blocked witnesses from participating in the House impeachment process.
“Well, Christopher, thanks for having. First of all, that’s not how American jurisprudence works,” Conway started. “You don’t try to prove your innocence if you’ve not been proven guilty. And we don’t need to present witnesses. Maybe they will, maybe they won’t. We’ll respect the process in the Senate however it unfolds. We do feel the Senate process will be one more fair to the president than whatever that was in the House.”
Conway ripped Democrats from pivoting the impeachment away from a “quid pro quo” narrative to the abuse of power and obstruction of Congress articles that the House ultimately drafted.
She explained, “You had a bunch of professors testifying about extortion, bribery, quid pro quo, the Mueller report: none of which is in these articles. And let me just say that. You all were talking fluent Latin there for quite a while, quid pro quo, all of a sudden, not even talking pig Latin. These articles of impeachment are thin, they are specious. They’ve been presented to the Senate, and we respect the process in the Senate. The trial process will be much more familiar to Americans who know what a trial is.”
Cuomo, 49, pushed back on Conway’s claims by comparing Trump’s impeachment to that of President Bill Clinton. He argued that the two had similar treatment and opportunities to present a defense. Conway wasn’t having Cuomo’s monologue and cut him off, saying, “Christopher, you invited me on the show tonight, and there’s got to be a question lurking in there. You’re talking a lot. I’m just standing here. I’m just standing here. But go ahead, do you have a question?”
This exchange quickly derailed the conversation, prompting Conway to reveal that Cuomo told her privately that he wanted the exchange to “go viral” before the interview started. The two have gotten in similar spats before, including a 22-minute fight that circulated on social media.
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