Outgoing presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway urged President Trump to host a summit with black leaders at Camp David to help heal racial divisions in the country.
A summit between Trump and community leaders who are “genuinely interested in unifying the country” could be an important step in ending the riots that have been taking place throughout the country, Conway said. She explained her idea in an interview with Jennifer Palmieri on Showtime’s The Circus: Inside the Craziest Political Campaign on Earth, which is set to air on Sunday night.
“What we have seen, night after night, are people taking to Kenosha the way that they’ve been in Minneapolis and Portland and Seattle and so many places, Jennifer. And looting, vandalizing. Two people lost their lives overnight. I mean, they’re walking around with huge firearms,” Conway said.
“You know, Camp David is a historic site of peace talks. And I urge the president to go have domestic peace talks at Camp David. I think it would be phenomenal,” she added.
Protests and riots were reignited by the shooting of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old black man who was likely paralyzed by a police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers was forced to call in the National Guard after several buildings were burned in riots on Sunday. The riots continued through Tuesday evening when a 17-year-old man allegedly shot and killed two protesters as tensions boiled over between armed militia and demonstrators.
Conway noted that she believes that George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis, was murdered and that Trump found the video to be “disgraceful.” She said that she did not know if Trump had seen the video of Blake’s shooting.
“I don’t know if he has seen that video, and I know that we don’t know all the facts. I hear that it’s under investigation,” she said.
Conway announced that she would be departing the White House at the end of August to be with her children as they transition to online classes during the coronavirus pandemic.
The full interview between Conway and Palmieri will air Sunday on Showtime at 8 p.m.
