12/7/2018

KELLYANNE CONWAY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY: “George Conway, a prominent conservative lawyer, is married to Kellyanne Conway, a White House counselor well known to cable viewers as a passionate defender of President Trump. But for months, Mr. Conway has been developing his own following through his frequent criticisms of the president on Twitter. And this week, Mr. Conway finally got the treatment the White House and its allies reserve for critics…Even in an administration where staffers and family members have routinely stabbed one another not just in the back, but in the front, commentary by a president’s son on the marriage of a top White House adviser seemed unusual…Eric Trump’s jab was retweeted more than 15,000 times. But it received more than twice as many replies, many reminding him of his father’s own indiscretions. ‘If he thinks that’s horrible,’ the comedian Jimmy Kimmel said on his show, ‘wait until he hears what Daddy and Auntie Stormy did to his step-mommy Melania. Talk about disrespectful.’ Inside the West Wing, however, Mr. Trump’s decision to tweet about one of Washington’s most discussed marriages was greeted as a welcome defense of one of the president’s longest-serving aides, according to multiple White House officials.”

Annie Karni, “Eric Trump Weighs In on Kellyanne Conway’s Husband. He Doesn’t Like Him.,” The New York Times online, December 7, 2018