"Drivel." That's what George Conway, Kellyanne's husband, called Giuliani’s assertion that Trump can't be subpoenaed.
Conway has also emailed people who've written things critical of Trump and suggested improvements in their arguments, Politico reports. https://t.co/rEI68tor8F
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 24, 2018
The first time I went looking for a picture of George Conway,, the NYTimes showed him as a literal coatholder — a guy, it seemed, who couldn’t get over his luck.
Some of the shine seems to have worn off over the last twelve months, quite possibly because Conway is a good enough lawyer to understand just how much legal jeopardy the Oval Office Occupant is putting his minions into:
… Friends say he was proud of Kellyanne, the longtime Republican operative who was finally running the show, and the evening routine allowed him to grab some one-on-one time with his busier half. On election night, he cried, and noted to other campaign aides that as the first female campaign manager of a winning presidential bid, his wife had made history.
Over the past year, however, since Trump fired FBI Director James Comey and special counsel Robert Mueller was appointed by the Justice Department, George Conway has become a man in turmoil. A serious, conservative attorney who believes in the rule of law, he has been torn, people who know him say, between the loyalty he feels toward his wife and an assault on his profession and his ideals that he did not anticipate when he cheered on election night—delivered by her boss.
During that period, he has walked away from a powerful job running the Justice Department’s civil division, where he would have served as one of the administration’s top lawyers. And he has become a Twitter phenom—tweeting and retweeting critiques of the president and support for the Mueller probe that his wife’s employer calls a “witch hunt.” Many in the White House have noticed, including Kellyanne and, according to multiple administration officials, the president himself.
The pushback coming from inside the house of Trump’s lead cable-news defender has become one of Washington’s favorite family dramas. In “Conway versus Conway,” George attacks the president, or seems to defend the Mueller probe, while Kellyanne puts her own credibility on the line to defend Trump, who has escalated his verbal assaults on the Russia inquiry and this week even demanded an investigation of the investigation…
Not often I find myself in sympathy with a semi-professional Repub, but I’d be happy too if George’s spouse comes to her senses and leaves Trump behind. If she drops out of politics entirely (if only because the Trump taint has made her unemployable), that wouldn’t damage her status to me, either.
Corner Stone
Wait. What?
Corner Stone
So just a run of the mill hatemonger then. He doesn’t mind too much what happens to brown and black folk as long as tax cuts get passed, and the rhetoric stays a little below the national register. That’s all he’s pissed off about, as usual.
eemom
Said it before, I’ll say it again: the flies on the wall of Casa Conway must be some entertained ass flies.
eta: That said, it IS possible that he’s functioning as an alter ego of sorts for the mrs. The Fire and Fury book did say that she pantomimes putting a gun to her head every time Dump says something particularly stupid.
p.a.
So… he’s actually an idiot. He probably turned because drumph tried to grab KAC’s pu$$y. It’s only real when it’s personal for conservathugs.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Even if trump does wind up in prison, she’ll spend the rest of her life being chauffeured back and forth between Meet The Press and CNN, never admitting she was wrong about anything, never losing that rictus smile, never being called out for what she is, and odds are she’ll die a very rich old woman and be celebrated by James Matalin Carville III or some such creature on HologramTV (a division of Fox International). Henry Kissinger in Real Housewives of Georgetown drag.
Teddys Person
JFC. The Conways have sold thier souls for money and power. George is just having a sad because Dolt45 is prone to saying the quiet parts out loud. But of course, the media highlights brave, brave sir George for critizing the orange squatter in the White House on Twitter when real bravery was happening at grocery stores in Florida.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@eemom: and Morning Joseph did say that she used to talk about needing a shower after the cameras were turned off. Maybe this is their version of the old Bush family routine of “but his wife is privately pro-choice/appalled by some of the rhetoric…”
The Ancient Randonneur
If Stalin could be an ally during WWII then Conway can be an ally during these dark times.
Corner Stone
@Teddys Person: I admit it is fun when he says something that could tweak Trump. But it’s all an act, really. Stick Romney, Rubio or Jeb! in there and you wouldn’t hear peep one from Georgie, even though they’d be doing 98% of the same policy outcomes.
Although, I would really like to know if any other R pres candidate would have hired J Kelly for DHS.
Turgidson
Kellyanne Conway is going to hell, if such a place exists. She’s done too much baldfaced lying in service of cruelty, racism, and brain dead stupidity. There’s no coming to the light for her. Her husband seems like a more sensible GOP asshole. Which I guess is good.
Gvg
I predict a divorce.
Ladyraxterinok
Wasn’t Mr Kellyanne a leader in the long fight to take down President Clinton?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I gather The Beast has been on twitter all day. Couldn’t go to FL because of the weather? Too much lightning around DC to waddle around with metal sticks? Maybe this has got him agitated
The tapes came from a Spanish investigation of organized crime. Sounds like someone was bragging about a trump connection.
Kay
Donald Trump’s and the Trump Administration’s lies are escalating. They’re now denying things that happened two days ago, or last week. The lies are bigger and more outrageous than they were even a month ago.
One of these ‘brave patriots’ is going to have to quit whining on social media and do some actual work- put together some coalition of Republicans to rein these people in- or they’re all responsible.
If there’s all these Republicans who are secretly anguished about The Rule of Law why don’t they use the constitutional mechanisms they were all handed, and tell elected Republicans in Congress to do their jobs?
That’s not as romantic as being an undercover double agent, but it’s how this is actually supposed to work. They have Congress! They’re claiming they are powerless? Bullshit. They’re cowards.
gene108
Kellyanne originally worked for Cruz and seamlessly switched to Trump.
She believes in nothing. Pay her and she’ll go on any show you want and lie to the nation.
Mary G
He’s still a member of the Federalist Society, just embarrassed at the administration’s incompetence and tweets are meaningless. Pass.
Yarrow
I don’t buy any of the act that he’s anti-Trump and it’s so, so difficult for him given her job. They’re muddying the waters in hopes both of them can stay out of prison.
Frankensteinbeck
@Kay:
I agree with most of your comment, but
I remind you that the Trump presidency started with him lying about the size of the crowd and the weather at his inauguration, to people who were there and had photographs of the event.
SiubhanDuinne
@Ladyraxterinok:
He was indeed. From his Wikipedia page:
Fuckem.
Kay
If George is actually worried about Donald Trump and Donald Trump’s low quality hires, George could campaign for some Democrats in Congress. That would be a perfectly legitimate democratic check on the Trump Administration. His family doesn’t even have to sacrifice. Kelly Ann could keep her prestigious and powerful job and George could salve his conscience.
But he won’t. Because he wants to pretend he’s some kind of brave resistance fighter, there on Twitter, without actually doing anything or risking anything.
Jeffro
@p.a.: and that was exactly the line to highlight too – “did not anticipate “?!?!?
In an interview right before the election Hillary Clinton noted that if she didn’t win then it was basically going to be the apocalypse for America. We are well on our way
JPL
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I feel that today’s tweets by the asshole were because of that article.
Barry Rosenman
I hope Oliver Platt gets to play him in the movie.
Teddys Person
@Corner Stone: I often wonder if Romney, Rubio, or Jeb! would have been worse because they would have been able to keep up the “Country Club Republican” veneer while enacting their hate-filled bigoted policies and there would be absolutely no push back.
patrick ii
@Teddys Person: I agree with you, but still, the more cracks in the conservative wall I see , the better I (relatively) feel.
Teddys Person
@Kay:
So. much. this. Talk is cheap, and Twitter is even cheaper.
Bill Arnold
@Kay:
I’ll take it. Basically because changes of mind from within a team/group wield much more convincing power than even well-reasoned/documented arguments from outgroup-ers.
Teddys Person
@patrick ii: Except those crack will get quickly spackled with “but, but … Trump was never a true conservative” bullshit once Dolt45 is gone. Today my feelings can be summed up by what the everlovingfuck does this incompentant boob [edit: Trump not Conway] have to do before someone with the power to do something about it acts. George Conway is closer to that power than most people, and I have little patience [edited typo] with his whining.
Mainmata
@Ladyraxterinok: Why yes, yes he was. He’s nothing more than a standard corporate whore lawyer. He objects mildly to Trump’s Twitter antics but not his policies or his obvious treason. Yawn about him.
jsrtheta
@SiubhanDuinne: Conway was indeed one of the “elves” who worked with Coulter, Drudge and Lucianne Goldberg under the table to reverse the 1992 and 1996 elections.
Corner Stone
Why would you rub a seasoning mix onto a brisket and then dump brine all over it?
germy
Here’s something George Conway retweeted:
Brachiator
Good.
More of these people need to be experiencing a crisis of conscience.
I’ve noticed conservatives who seem to naturally want to submit to authority refuse to comment negatively of anything that Trump does, even though it clearly violates their values.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et Al.)
This guy was with every other Republican, cheering on election night in 2016, and it’s only now that he has misgivings? This guy could have, and should have, seen what Tяump was long before now. It was in plain sight all along. I get the feeling that a lot of these shitburgers are setting themselves up to be the “good” Republicans, once this ship goes down for good. But the time to speak up about this was about two years ago. Most of the clowns bemoaning this shit show have only taken up this bold, principled stand lately, as it’s slowly dawned on them that this grift is doomed. I trust they’ll forgive me if I’m unimpressed, and if they won’t, they can kiss my sanctified ass.
Corner Stone
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et Al.):
Most of them talked ominously about all the dirty “oppo” research they had on Trump. It somehow never seemed to make it to the public. Now they are all pissed because it’s going to be a few years before they can get their grift on.
Gin & Tonic
This smells so much like a story planted and nurtured by George Conway himself. There’s a name for that kind of thing that escapes me right now.
J R in WV
I can’t even, really.
I doubt if the Conways, either of them, have actually committed crimes that Mueller will try to prosecute.
But the immorality of K Conway, the ability to lie so brazenly to the world, knowing that anyone who is interested KNOWS she is NOT telling the truth, deliberately lying. Just wow! The evil oozes from her pores. Out of her eyes. Yetch. How can G Conway touch her?
ETA: Because he can’t smell the evil, right? Sure…
debbie
@J R in WV:
Ever since she pulled that Bowling Green Massacre shit, I’ve wanted to reach into my television and throttle her.
JPL
@Gin & Tonic: It’s appalling that he is now on the site. He still needs to be mocked and not worshiped. .
Bill Arnold
Our POTUS:
Trump Claims Aide Who Gave Official White House Briefing Does Not Exist
(bold mine) Read the article – various journalists are … annoyed.
The rDT tweet in question: The Failing @nytimes quotes “a senior White House official,” who doesn’t exist, as saying “even if the meeting were reinstated, holding it on June 12 would be impossible, given the lack of time and the amount of planning needed.” WRONG AGAIN! Use real people, not phony sources.
Another quote:
Jeffro
We’ve see Trumpov’s unfitness for something like four decades now? The birther shit since 2008? The REALLY heinous crap about McCain, the Khans, “very fine people”, across the past two years…and NOW Mr Conway is feeling like somethin’ aint right?
Mike G
A serious, conservative attorney who believes in the rule of law
Married to Ms. “alternative facts”, a craven, transparent bullshitter in the willing service of evil.
Either they’re splitting up or I’m skeptical of his integrity.
chris
@J R in WV:
As SD pointed out he did work closely with Ann Coulter and Drudge in the 90s. Ew.
No Drought No More
There’s a reason K. Conway hangs tight to Trump, and it has nothing to do with justice. You seem to think she can walk out on Trump and into a goddamn Walt Disney movie (starring Kellyanne as Julie Andrews). Where but prison is there for her to land at this point, even if she cut ties? Of course, I presume her and the whole rotten lot to be as guilty as sin, and upon their conviction, I believe a merciless fate should befall them all, in the name of Justice writ large…
Josie
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et Al.): This. It’s not like Trump hid what he was from anyone. He pretty much told us exactly who he was and what he would do from the beginning. These people who claim to be just now waking up are full of shit.
Ruckus
@Mike G:
My skepticism of his integrity in the face of his history and conservative bullshit knows no bounds. IOW I’m way past skeptical.
Elizabelle
“Alternative facts” is going to follow KAC for the rest of her life. No matter how principled her husband contends he is.
They are both making $$$ off of their association with Trump.
artem1s
KAC is a plant by mainstream GOPers. She is meant to survive the carnage and bring back credibility to the Pence once the GOP decides Dolt isn’t useful anymore.