Kellyanne Conway says Trump defended her when husband George Conway did not
Kellyanne Conway writes in her new book that if she wanted support while serving in the Donald Trump White House — where the former president told her they’ll work together again — she wasn’t going to get it at home.
“I had two men in my life,” she reportedly said in her new memoir. “One was my husband. One was my boss, who happened to be president of the United States. One of those men was defending me. And it wasn’t George Conway. It was Donald Trump.”
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway tapes her speech for the third day of the Republican National Convention in Washington, Aug. 26, 2020. (Susan Walsh/)
That excerpt, published by Axios, is from her book “Here’s the Deal,” which hits shelves Tuesday.
The former senior counselor to the Trump administration wrote that while serving under Trump, she would come home from a hard day’s work only to find that her “sneaky” husband had bashed her boss either on Twitter or through his anti-Trump organization, The Lincoln Project. She laments the fact that rather than having private conversations, her husband of 21 years expressed his contempt for Trump in public forums.
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway joins President Donald Trump at an evening “Keep America Great Rally” on Jan. 28, 2020 in Wildwood, New Jersey. (Spencer Platt/)
“You work for a madman,” would be his reasoning, Conway wrote.
According to Conway, she otherwise writes “lovingly” about her lawyer hubby in her book, even though he sat at home “plotting against my boss and me” from the couple’s Washington D.C. home. Axios reports that the 55-year-old conservative — herself an attorney — said she wants readers to know that she and George Conway had no “deal” in place when she worked for Trump.
According to Conway, the former president told her during a dinner last year that she should be proud of the work she did to get him into office and encouraged her to write a memoir. When she said she wished they were back at the White House, Trump may have tipped his hand on 2024.
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In this Jan. 19, 2017 file photo, Kellyanne Conway, center, accompanied by her husband, George, in Washington. (Matt Rourke/)
“We’ll be back, honey,” he reportedly told her. “We’ll all be back.”
Her husband isn’t the only Conway who expressed frustration with her involvement in the Trump White House. The couple’s teenage daughter Claudia Conway lashed out against her mom on social media several times while Trump was president, even declaring in August of 2020 that she wanted to be emancipated from her family.
Claudia claimed on Twitter that her mom’s job “ruined my life” and called it “heartbreaking” and “selfish” that “she continues to go down that path after years of watching her children suffer.”
