It’s getting harder and harder to imagine what life must be like inside the home of Kellyanne and George Conway as the Trump presidency stretches into 2019. It was the middle of this year when we found out that the married couple differs on the policies and statements of Kellyanne’s boss, with the senior adviser to the President of course publicly supporting everything Trump says and her husband publicly tweeting his disagreement.
One has to wonder how heavily potential responses from her husband weigh on Mrs. Conway when she makes media appearances now — is she thinking about what he might say when she gets home? Are all the lies she tells on behalf of this President worth her marriage if George is beginning to see her as nothing more than a Trumper?
Maybe that’s what was on her mind when she appeared on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday morning with host Dana Bash. Dana wanted to interview the President’s adviser because of the tweet he sent out yesterday — considered by most to be the most offensive tweet he’s ever sent — in which he made his first public comments on the deaths of two migrant children while in Border Patrol custody. Trump placed the blame for the deaths squarely on Democrats and even the father of one of the deceased kids:
Any deaths of children or others at the Border are strictly the fault of the Democrats and their pathetic immigration policies that allow people to make the long trek thinking they can enter our country illegally. They can’t. If we had a Wall, they wouldn’t even try! The two…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 29, 2018
…children in question were very sick before they were given over to Border Patrol. The father of the young girl said it was not their fault, he hadn’t given her water in days. Border Patrol needs the Wall and it will all end. They are working so hard & getting so little credit!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 29, 2018
Repeatedly, Kellyanne refused to address the fact that Trump was blaming Democrats for the deaths of children who wouldn’t have been in CPB custody under Democratic policy, referring time and again to the “perilous journey” talking point that Republicans have been rehearsing this week. She falsely accused the Democrats of using the children as political pawns, and when Bash asked her, “isn’t that exactly what the President just did,” Kellyanne nearly snapped.
The fact is, illegal immigration is at historical lows, and at least half of those who are in the United States illegally are those who have overstayed their visas and not returned to their home country — not border-crossing asylum seekers.
Watch the exchange here:
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