Former White Home counselor Kellyanne Conway responded to criticism from former President Trump following the publication of her ebook earlier this month, saying in an interview on Tuesday that he was a “nice woman boss.”
Conway printed a memoir earlier this month, known as “Right here’s the Deal,” wherein she mentioned that she “could have been the primary particular person Trump trusted in his interior circle who informed him that he had come up brief this time” relating to his 2020 presidential election loss.
Trump disputed the memoir’s contents, issuing an announcement on Fact Social, his new social media web site, that she “by no means informed me that she thought we misplaced the election.”
“If she had, I wouldn’t have dealt along with her any longer — she would have been flawed — might return to her loopy husband,” he added.
The previous president has vigorously disputed that he misplaced the final presidential election, baselessly claiming that the fraud had been dedicated.
Throughout an interview on “CBS Mornings” on Tuesday, Conway was requested to answer Trump’s remarks.
“In order that excerpt within the ebook actually speaks to the president arising brief earlier than the Dec. 14 certification by the electors, and I had talked to the president a number of — many instances between Election Day and Dec. 14 and saying, ‘You’ve gotten each proper to do what Al Gore did, what others have performed, which is that if you’re going to go discover proof of malfeasance, shenanigans, theft … you might have each proper to do this along with your authorized staff and current it,’” she mentioned.
“And everyone knows what occurred. They tried. They offered it. The election was licensed for Biden-Harris, however different folks had one other thought, to blow previous Dec. 14 and take a look at Jan. 6 as one other different manner.”
Conway prevented criticizing Trump in her response, calling him “protecting” and a “nice woman boss.”
The previous Trump official, nonetheless, was pressed once more on Trump’s disputing her characterization of the occasions following the 2020 election.
“I informed him that they didn’t … with Dec. 14 arising, it didn’t seem like that they had produced the proof wanted to cease the certification of the election which had occurred,” she mentioned.
