The outspoken attorney married to White House counselor Kellyanne Conway called President Trump a “cancer” that must be removed from the White House.
In the latest instance of publicly disagreeing with his wife, who frequently defends her boss, George Conway said special counsel Robert Mueller’s report shows “a relentless torrent of such obstructive activity by Trump.”
“What the Mueller report disturbingly shows, with crystal clarity, is that today there is a cancer in the presidency: President Donald J. Trump,” Conway wrote Thursday in an op-ed for the Washington Post. “Congress now bears the solemn constitutional duty to excise that cancer without delay.”
Conway said Trump deserves to be removed from office because he puts his own interests over those of the country, even if his actions described in the Mueller report did not amount to a crime.
The lawyer also claimed Trump’s actions are far worse than those of President Richard Nixon, who resigned in 1974 as it appeared he would be impeached and removed from office in response to the Watergate scandal.
Nixon “was mostly passive” in the scandal, except for directing his chief of staff to tell the CIA director to order the FBI not to “go any further into this case” for national security reasons, Conway said.
“For the most part, the Watergate tapes showed that Nixon had ‘acquiesced in the cover-up’ after the fact,” Conway wrote. “Nixon had no advance knowledge of the break-in. His aides were the driving force behind the obstruction. Trump, on the other hand, was a one-man show. His aides tried to stop him, according to Mueller: ‘The President’s efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the President declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests.’”
“The underlying crime in Watergate was a clumsy, third-rate burglary in an election campaign that turned out to be a landslide,” he said. “The investigation that Trump tried to interfere with here, to protect his own personal interests, was in significant part an investigation of how a hostile foreign power interfered with our democracy.”
