White House counselor Kellyanne Conway on Wednesday condemned the response to a congressional summer intern who hurled expletive at President Trump, saying that behavior would not be tolerated in the Trump administration.
“I can promise you on his behalf,” Conway said during an interview on “Fox and Friends,” referring to Trump, “that if a White House intern here this summer ever said anything like that to an elected official, let alone the president of the United States, the F-word followed by the name, harassing elected officials like Leader McConnell and his wife, a Cabinet secretary last night, I guarantee you that person would be gone immediately.”
Caitlin Marriott, a 21-year-old intern in the office of Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., yelled, “Mr. President, fuck you!” to Trump on June 19 when he entered the U.S. Capitol for a meeting with House Republicans. Marriott was suspended but will be allowed to complete her internship, which finishes in August, Fox News reported.
Conway said Wednesday she was sure Marriott was “being deified on the Left, the socialist-left.”
Conway’s comments follow Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao on Tuesday physically blocking a group of protesters who were shouting at her and her husband, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., as the pair exited a building at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
Her remarks also come after Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., told a crowd of supporters at an immigration rally Saturday that Trump administration officials should have no peace and no sleep.
“There’s a difference between these stupid playground insults that people hurl at each of us and asking for more action,” Conway said Wednesday. “Let me just make clear, there’s no moral equivalence between quoting from a rally three years ago and what’s being said by a member of Congress on her official time asking for us to be, quote, pushed back upon in public.”
