‘I need to take a shower’, Kellyanne Conway said after defending candidate Trump, MSNBC hosts claim
MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski dished some dirt Monday about counsellor to the president Kellyanne Conway, claiming that she used to complain privately about representing a man she did not always believe in.
“This is a woman, by the way, who came on our show during the campaign and would shill for Trump in extensive fashion, and then she would get off the air, the camera would be turned off, the microphone would be taken off, and she would say, ‘Blech. I need to take a shower,’ ” Brzezinski said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “Because she disliked her candidate so much.”
Conway, a pollster by trade, started the 2016 election cycle working for a super PAC that supported Senator Ted Cruz. After Cruz dropped out, she joined the Trump campaign on July 1 and became campaign manager the following month.
Given that Trump was not Conway’s first pick - and given the nastiness he displayed toward the candidate who was her first pick, not to mention that candidate’s wife, it is not surprising that Conway would gripe about Trump when the cameras were off. It is also possible that her feelings have changed since then, that Trump was an acquired taste.
Still, Scarborough and Brzezinski’s account adds to existing evidence that the people who speak for Trump don’t always believe what they are asked to say on his behalf.
In briefings, for example, Spicer has offered his own supportive thoughts on a Republican health-care bill, Trump’s nomination of Neil M. Gorsuch to the Supreme Court and the president’s hard line on illegal immigration. However, he held at arm’s length Trump’s charge that former US president Barack Obama tapped the phones in Trump Tower.
“My job is to represent the president and to talk about what he’s doing and what he wants,” Spicer said at a March 7 briefing. “I’m not here to speak for myself. I’m here to speak for the president of the United States and our government.”