Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway gives first account of alleged attack on her in Washington restaurant that led to assault charge
- Mary Elizabeth Inabinett, 63, was charged in November with second-degree assault and disorderly conduct over the incident
Kellyanne Conway, a senior adviser to US President Donald Trump, has given an account of an alleged assault she suffered and her teenage daughter witnessed when she was grabbed by an angry woman in a restaurant last year.
In an interview with CNN, the White House counsellor went into detail for the first time, saying the woman, who has since been charged, approached her in a Mexican restaurant in a suburb on the outskirts of Washington DC, “screaming her head off”.
“Somebody was grabbing me from behind, grabbing my arms, and was shaking me to the point where I felt maybe somebody was hugging me,” Conway said in the interview for CNN’s TV series Badass Women of Washington.
“She was out of control. I don’t even know how to explain her to you. She was just, her whole face was terror and anger. She was right here, and my daughter was right there. She ought to pay for that,” she said in the interview, extracts of which were released this week.
Conway said she called 911 during the incident in October 2018, though the woman left before the police arrived.