George Conway, a conservative lawyer and husband to White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, wrote an 11,300-word essay about all the ways he finds President Trump unfit to be president.
In The Atlantic piece titled, “Unfit for Office,” Conway argued that Trump’s “ingrained and extreme behavioral characteristics make it impossible for him to carry out the duties of the presidency in the way the Constitution requires.”
“In a nutshell, while carrying out his official duties, a president has to put the country, not himself, first; he must faithfully follow and enforce the law; and he must act with the utmost care in doing all that,” Conway wrote. “But can Trump do all that? Does his personality allow him to?”
Conway, who is not a psychologist or psychiatrist, has often argued Trump has narcissistic personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder. Conway said his amateur diagnoses must play a factor when considering Trump’s fitness for office “because it touches directly upon whether Trump has the capacity to put anyone’s interests — including the country’s and the Constitution’s — above his own.”
“You don’t need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, and you don’t need to be a mental-health professional to see that something’s very seriously off with Trump — particularly after nearly three years of watching his erratic and abnormal behavior in the White House,” he wrote.
Conway urged Congress to consider Trump’s behavioral and psychological characteristics during its impeachment inquiry into the president by asking psychologists and psychiatrists to weigh in.
“Any serious impeachment proceedings should consider not only the evidence and the substance of all impeachable offenses, but also the psychological factors that may be relevant to the motivations underlying those offenses,” he said.
“Is Trump so narcissistic that he can’t help but use his office for his own personal ends? Is he so sociopathic that he can’t be trusted to follow, let alone faithfully execute, the law? Congress should consider all this because that’s what the question of impeachment demands. But there’s another reason as well. The people have a right to know, and a need to see.”
Conway supported Trump during the 2016 campaign, when his wife worked as the then-candidate’s campaign manager, but turned on him after he entered office. He has been highly critical of his wife’s boss, attacking Trump’s mental state and calling for him to be removed from the presidency.
Trump, in response, has called Conway a “total loser” and a “husband from hell” whose comments were “a tremendous disservice” to his wife and four children.
