George Conway said President Trump’s attacks on four minority congresswomen have convinced him the president is racist.
The conservative lawyer, who is married to White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, has been highly critical of the president, but said Monday he was still willing to give him the benefit of the doubt about being a racist.
“No matter how much I came to dislike him, I didn’t want to think that the president of the United States is a racial bigot. But Sunday left no doubt,” he wrote for the Washington Post. “Telling four non-white members of Congress — American citizens all, three natural-born — to ‘go back’ to the ‘countries’ they ‘originally came from’? That’s racist to the core.”
Conway said the comments paired with Republicans’ “virtual silence” on the matter compromise the nation’s “soul.”
“Trump is not some random, embittered person in a parking lot — he’s the president of the United States. By virtue of his office, he speaks for the country. What’s at stake now is more important than judges or tax cuts or regulations or any policy issue of the day. What’s at stake are the nation’s ideals, its very soul,” he wrote.
