{"id":63801,"date":"2018-04-23T05:04:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T05:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=63801"},"modified":"2018-04-23T05:04:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T05:04:27","slug":"kellyanne-conway-says-asking-about-her-husbands-anti-trump-tweets-is-a-double-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/kellyanne-conway-says-asking-about-her-husbands-anti-trump-tweets-is-a-double-standard.html","title":{"rendered":"Kellyanne Conway says asking about her husband&#8217;s anti-Trump tweets is a &#8216;double standard&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Kellyanne Conway says asking about her husband&#8217;s anti-Trump tweets is a &#8216;double standard&#8217;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said Sunday that it was inappropriate and a &#8220;double standard&#8221; to be asked about her husband&#8217;s tweets, which have been critical of her boss, President Donald Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Since last year, George Conway, a prominent attorney whom Trump considered nominating for solicitor general, has been posting and retweeting tweets that have been critical of the President.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Asked about her husband&#8217;s social media activities, Kellyanne Conway told CNN&#8217;s Dana Bash on &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; &#8220;We&#8217;re now going to talk about other people&#8217;s spouses and significant others just because they either work at the White House or CNN? Are we going to do that? You just went there.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">&#8220;By definition, spouses have a difference of opinion when one is, I don&#8217;t know, draining the joint bank account to support things maybe the other disagrees with,&#8221; she said. &#8220;This is a fascinating, cross-the-Rubicon moment and I will leave it at that.&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Conway added that Bash&#8217;s prompt &#8220;was meant to harass and embarrass&#8221; and suggested that she wouldn&#8217;t have been asked that question if she were a man.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">&#8220;I would ask you that if you were a man and your wife &#8230; a thousand percent I would,&#8221; Bash responded. &#8220;It&#8217;s not about that. It&#8217;s about questioning &#8212; publicly questioning what you are doing for a living and with regard to your boss.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">&#8220;There are other family members of people who work at the White House who certainly don&#8217;t support the President privately and publicly,&#8221; Conway said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">She continued: &#8220;There has been a different standard for me than there have been for other people. We bite our tongue plenty because I work for the people of this country, the United States government, and the presidency and the President of the United States, so there is plenty that I don&#8217;t say.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Last Monday on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Good Morning America,&#8221; Conway used fired FBI Director James Comey&#8217;s disclosure that his wife and daughters supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election as a way to target his own political leanings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">&#8220;His people in his household wanted the other person to win,&#8221; Conway said, referring to Clinton.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Shortly after Conway&#8217;s interview on CNN aired, her husband retweeted a message from Maggie Haberman, the New York Times&#8217; chief White House correspondent, who has been a recent subject of the President&#8217;s ire online.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Haberman tweeted a photograph of some of the living presidents and their spouses gathered at first lady Barbara Bush&#8217;s funeral on Saturday. Other than President Jimmy Carter and first lady Rosalynn Carter, who were absent because of President Carter&#8217;s overseas travel and Rosalynn&#8217;s recovery from surgery, the only person missing was Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Haberman tweeted the image with the comment: &#8220;When you contrast this photo with a weekend-long tweetstorm from current @potus, it&#8217;s striking.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">George Conway&#8217;s retweet of New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman on Sunday, April 22, 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 8pt;color: #000000\">Source:-https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2018\/04\/22\/politics\/kellyanne-conway-george-conway-tweets-cnntv\/index.html<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/kellyanne-conway-says-asking-about-her-husbands-anti-trump-tweets-is-a-double-standard.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kellyanne Conway says asking about her husband&#8217;s anti-Trump tweets is a &#8216;double standard&#8217; White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said Sunday that it was inappropriate and a &#8220;double standard&#8221; to be asked about her husband&#8217;s tweets, which have been critical of her boss, President Donald Trump. 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