Kellyanne Conway is the special counselor to the president, and the first woman to lead a successful presidential campaign. So it’s astounding to see what garners Conway the most media attention: her husband’s latest statements.
Prior to the Trump presidency, George Conway was an obscure lawyer and his wife a pollster known just within her industry. With Kellyanne Conway successfully guiding President Trump’s campaign, she catapulted to notoriety, and her husband followed her coattails as he formed his own brand as an outspoken Trump critic. Recently, Conway said to the Washington Examiner’s Caitlin Yilek what is painfully obvious: “He gets his power through me if you haven’t noticed. Not the other way around.”
People have watched as the two have spent the majority of the last few years taking public, passive-aggressive swipes at each other. George appears on national television and on Twitter with invectives about his wife’s boss, while Kellyanne is almost always only discussing him in what she believes to be off-the-record conversations with reporters, or when she’s put on the spot on national television, as she was recently by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.
After being asked to comment on her husband’s comments on MSNBC, @KellyannePolls said @WolfBlitzer “embarrassed” himself by asking about her husband and only did it for ratings.https://t.co/5xF9e6NLud pic.twitter.com/6vCK6RjCfe
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) November 14, 2019
Not content to aim his fire just on his wife’s boss, George Conway sunk to new lows on Monday, directly and publicly attacking his wife and the mother of his four children:
Your boss apparently thought so. https://t.co/yje099pkPU
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) December 2, 2019
The anti-Trump Left couldn’t get enough of the latest attack by Conway on Twitter, lapping up the latest drama. These liberals paint themselves as outraged over how the president treats women, all while cheering on a man emotionally abusing his wife publicly.
Psychology Today defines emotional abuse:
Taken at face value, Conway’s invectives against Trump have always been not so thinly veiled attacks on his own wife. Monday’s tweet, directly taking her on, makes it unmistakably obvious what Conway is trying to accomplish: Silence his wife and shame her over her work for the president.
When Kellyanne Conway was asked on live television by Blitzer about her husband’s previous statements on MSNBC, Blitzer introduced the topic by claiming he had a substantive question but went on to titter about the Conway marriage: “I know there are issues there,” Blitzer introduced the video clip describing George Conway not as a renowned lawyer or expert, but just as Kellyanne’s husband.
That is his sole value to the media. And the media, supposedly so concerned about the president’s problematic issues with women, are all too happy to continue to promote George Conway’s continued public emotional abuse of his wife for ratings.
Bethany Mandel is a stay-at-home and homeschooling mother of four and a freelance writer. She is an editor at Ricochet.com, a columnist at the Forward, and a contributor to the Washington Examiner’s Beltway Confidential blog.
