Counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway, who will speak at the Republican convention on Wednesday, told Trump in the Oval Office last night that she will leave the White House at the end of the month.
Her husband, the conservative lawyer and Trump critic George Conway, announced that he will step back from his role on the Lincoln Project, the outside group devoted to attacking Trump from the right, and take a hiatus from Twitter. “We disagree about plenty, but we are united on what matters most: the kids,” she said in a statement. “This is completely my choice and my voice. In time, I will announce future plans. For now, and for my beloved children, it will be less drama, more mama.”
“Conway’s high school daughter had drawn attention for tweets about her parents and politics,”
- The teenager first went viral in June for her political TikToks in which she voiced her support for the Black Lives Matter movement, distanced herself from her mother's politics, and expressed her dislike of President Donald Trump.
- As Conway continued to post TikToks and acquire hundreds of thousands of followers, she began to publicly spar with her parents on Twitter.
- As her social media posts escalated, she made explosive allegations against her high-profile parents that included abuse
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- Conway also posted on Twitter about "pursuing emancipation,"
Ashley Parker reports. “On Sunday, however, she also tweeted that social media was ‘becoming way too much,’ so she had decided to take ‘a mental health break.’ … [Kellyanne] has been intimately involved in the convention planning. … She spent Saturday at the campaign headquarters … George Conway has written, among other things, that Trump is not mentally fit to be president. The president has voiced anger at times about George Conway’s comments, calling him ‘a stone cold LOSER & husband from hell.’”
Conway was a frequent guest on television programs, known for her defense of the president and sharp put downs aimed at his opponents.
She drew criticism for an appearance early in the Trump administration when she defended then-press secretary Sean Spicer after he falsely stated that Trump’s swearing-in ceremony drew “the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration.”
She told NBC News’s “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd that Spicer was using “alternative facts,” a phrase that critics of the administration have continued to highlight as evidence of Trump and his White House not being honest with the public.
Conway, a veteran GOP pollster and strategist, joined the Trump campaign in July 2016 after working for a super PAC that supported Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and was highly critical of Trump.