Kellyanne Conway makes things even worse for Donald Trump – and for herself
In a sign of just how out of favor Rudy Giuliani has fallen with Donald Trump over the past week, when Trump needed to send a lawyer on television to spin things yesterday, he sent Jay Sekulow – whose humiliating TV performances last year had gotten him benched. And when Trump decided he needed to send another surrogate onto another Sunday morning show, he once again bypassed Rudy, this time in favor of Kellyanne Conway. Unfortunately for Trump and Kellyanne, it didn’t go particularly well for either of them.
It’s not that there was anything that any Trump surrogate could do the help the situation yesterday. Donald Trump started off the day by admitting on Twitter that Donald Trump Jr’s meeting with the Russians at Trump Tower was indeed an attempt at getting dirt on Hillary Clinton for use during the election. Sekulow and Kellyanne each more or less spent their television time babbling incoherently, which was what they had been sent there to do. But then Kellyanne got herself in trouble.
The trouble, of course, was that for the first time in a little awhile, an interviewer was free to hit Kellyanne Conway with questions about other controversial Trump topics. Kellyanne was asked if she agrees with Donald Trump’s repeated assertion that the media is “the enemy of the people.” She quickly responded that the media is not the enemy of the people. That was the correct answer, of course, but not if you work for Donald Trump.
This past week we saw that Donald Trump’s White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was afraid to say whether she felt the media was the enemy of the people, when Jim Acosta asked her about it during a press briefing. Yet here’s Kellyanne Conway directly contradicting Trump’s position on the issue on live national television – and we know that Trump was watching. Will he fire her over this? Probably not. But she just publicly undermined him, and he’ll probably bench her again for it. These people just can’t stop tripping over themselves, and each other.
