Kellyanne Conway leaving White House
She said she and her husband were making changes based
on what they thought was best for their four children.
Claudia Conway, who had been tweeting criticism of
Trump, wrote on Twitter on Saturday night that she wanted to leave her parents.
“I‘m officially pushing for emancipation. buckle up
because this is probably going to be public one way or another, unfortunately.
welcome to my life," she wrote.
By ANITA KUMAR
and MERIDITH MCGRAW
08/23/2020
10:44 PM EDT
Updated:
08/24/2020 12:37 AM EDT
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/23/kellyanne-conway-leaving-white-house-400609
White House
counselor Kellyanne Conway, one of President Donald Trump’s longest-serving
aides, announced late on Sunday that she would leave the administration at the
end of August.
Her
husband, George Conway III, a fierce critic of the president, announced that he
was withdrawing from the Lincoln Project, an organization working to defeat
Trump in November.
The Conways
had spent years engaged in a public feud over Trump: Kellyanne Conway defended
him on regular TV appearances, and George Conway skewered him on Twitter and in
op-eds. But their public fighting took its toll on the couple’s four children,
including their daughter Claudia, 15.
In a
statement posted to Twitter, Conway said she and her husband were making
changes based on what they thought was best for their children.
“We
disagree about plenty but we are united on what matters most: the kids.” she
said. “Our four children are teens and ’tweens starting a new academic year, in
middle school and high school, remotely from home for at least a few months. As
millions of parents nationwide know, kids ‘doing school from home’ requires a
level of attention and vigilance that is as unusual as these times.”
“For now,
and for my beloved children, it will be less drama, more mama,” Kellyanne
Conway wrote in her statement on Sunday.
Claudia
Conway, who had been tweeting criticism of Trump, wrote on Twitter on Saturday
night that she wanted to leave her parents.
“I‘m
officially pushing for emancipation. buckle up because this is probably going
to be public one way or another, unfortunately. welcome to my life," she
wrote.
But on
Sunday, she said she was taking a break from Twitter, saying it was “becoming
way too much.”
“See y’all
soon,” she wrote. “Thank you for the love and support. No hate to my parents
please.”
The
announcements came on the night before Trump is officially nominated to the
Republican nominee for president at the GOP convention. Kellyanne Conway is
slated to speak on Wednesday night. There had been discussions for a while
about her going to the campaign, but that never happened.
She met
with Trump on Sunday night to inform him she would be leaving, according to a
White House official.
The White
House did not respond to a request for comment. Kellyanne Conway did not return
phone calls.
Conway, one
of Trump’s top advisers, was the first woman to successfully manage a
presidential campaign when she worked for Trump in 2016.
In her
statement on Sunday, Conway continued to praise the president.
“President
Trump’s leadership has had a measurable, positive impact on the peace and
prosperity of the nation, and on millions of Americans who feel forgotten no
more.”
A New
Jersey native whose background was in polling, Conway came to the campaign in
July 2016 after working on behalf of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). When Cruz left
the presidential race, she joined Trump’s campaign. In August 2016, following
the resignation of Paul Manafort as the Trump campaign manager, she was
appointed manager.
George
Conway said little on Sunday.
“So I’m
withdrawing from @ProjectLincoln to devote more time to family matters,” he
wrote on Twitter. “Needless to say, I continue to support the Lincoln Project
and its mission. Passionately.”
He said he
would be taking a break from Twitter.
The
announcements came on the night before Trump is officially chosen to the
Republican nominee for president at the GOP convention. Kellyanne Conway is
slated to speak Wednesday night.
Kellyanne
Conway’s private life was often discussed in the context of her public service,
as she and her husband did not see eye to eye on Trump. George Conway, a
longtime conservative lawyer, was once considered by the president for
high-level posts in the Justice Department, but has since become a leading
critic of Trump, questioning his fitness for office and mental health.
The
president has even fired back at George Conway’s criticism and said he was
“jealous” of his wife’s success, labeling him a “husband from hell.” Kellyanne
Conway told POLITICO that the president was a “counterpuncher” and had the
right to defend himself from accusations that he suffers from mental illness.
On Sunday,
as a farewell on Twitter, George Conway continued his attacks on the president
and shared a series of his opinion columns slamming Trump as a “narcissistic
sociopath” and a “cancer on the presidency.”
Daniel
Lippman contributed to this report.
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