Kellyanne Conway was trying to distance herself from Roy Moore when she made the blanket statement that anyone who has mistreated a woman or a girl should resign from office, which means that she just called for Trump to resign.
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Conway said, “Let me say it one last time, the conduct as described is not just offensive and disgusting, it disqualifies anyone who has done it from holding public office. So let me go a little step farther if there’s anyone currently in public office who has behaved that way to any girl or any woman, maybe they should step aside, because, in a country of 330 million people, we ought to be able to do better than this.”
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If Conway really believes that anyone currently in public office should step down for sexually assaulting women, then she just called for President Access Hollywood Tape to resign. Conway was trying to distance the White House from Roy Moore, but she actually did was make it the official White House position that Donald Trump should resign.
No one is really sure what it is that Kellyanne Conway does in the White House outside of lie for Trump on television and ride on private jets at the taxpayers’ expense, but it is a safe bet that she was not supposed to go on national television and boldly state criteria that would require Trump to resign.
Kellyanne Conway has always gotten too much credit with some people for how she handles the media. Conway isn’t a great media person. She is a lie machine who sometimes lets the lies get ahead of her brain.
His own senior White House adviser agrees that due to the way he has behaved toward women, Donald Trump should resign.
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