Kellyanne Conway Uses Memoir to Further Trash Her Husband for Speaking Out Against Trump (2024)

One of the greatest mysteries of the 21st century is the marriage of Kellyanne Conway and her husband, George—specifically, if they hate each other as much as their public commentary would suggest, or if the whole thing is some kind of three-dimensional chess designed to further their own interests. For example, a whole lot of people would probably have a problem if their spouse dubbedtheir workplace “a sh*t show in a dumpster fire,”suggested their boss had obstructed justice and engaged in witness tampering,claimedsaid boss might suffer from narcissistic personality disorder, and, over the course of a nearly 11,500-word essay,explainedwhy that boss’s “ingrained and extreme behavioral characteristics make it impossible for him to carry out the duties of the presidency.” Additionally, after being publicly insulted by said boss, most people would probably not be wild about their better half siding with him, nor would they enjoy their significant other trying to trash-talk themas an anonymous source in the pages of one of the biggest newspapers in the world. Or, y’know, just coming out and doing it in the pages of their book.

In her new memoir, Here’s the Deal, Kellyanne Conway, the former counselor to Donald Trump, writes that in posting things that were critical of the president, George “clearly…was cheating by tweeting” and violated their marriage vows. Based on the excerpt run by People magazine, she does not appear to take issue with Trump having called her husband “a whack job,” having tweeted, “I barely know him but just take a look, a stone cold LOSER & husband from hell!” or having deputized an aide to tweet, “We all know that @realDonaldTrump turned down Mr. Kellyanne Conway for a job he desperately wanted…Now he hurts his wife because he is jealous of her success. POTUS doesn’t even know him!” Conway also writes that she felt “protected” by Trump and the first lady against “what was becoming an armful of harmful.” And that Ivanka Trump suggested the names of marriage counselors:

A week after that conversation, and based on my stated openness to the idea, Ivanka came into my office (which was next to hers) and handed me a Post-it note. It had the names of two local doctors who specialized in couples therapy. I noticed she had avoided putting that in a text or an email. I appreciated the information and her thoughtfulness and wanted to pursue it. After I showed George the names, he rejected one and said a half-hearted “okay” to the other while looking at his phone.

We never went.

He spent his time exactly how he wanted to. If it was important to him, he would have made it happen. Ivanka and I certainly had one thing in common now: Both Jared [Kushner] and George were often referred to as “husband of…”

As Vanity Fair reported last year:

Friends have watched the Conway drama like a slow-moving train wreck, sometimes too timid to really ask what’s going on. As of late February, the Conways are still together, joined by 20 years of marriage and four children. But conversations with numerous sources from both camps—yes, there are camps with the Conways—reveal the couple to be in an extremely fragile state, miles away from “closure.” The wounds are raw from their public clashes. As important, they don’t have a mutual grasp on what has just happened to the country, creating a high level of exasperation. George believes that Trumpism should be eradicated from the planet. Kellyanne, on the other hand, continues on in explain-away-daddy mode, not giving an inch. In a statement condemning the Capitol riot, she not only failed to acknowledge the role of Trump’s rhetoric, but also praised his leadership. Given every opportunity to amend or clarify that statement for this piece, she declines.

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