George Conway, Kellyanne Conway’s Husband, Calls For Donald Trump To Be Removed From Office
Attorney George Conway, White House advisor Kellyanne Conway‘s husband, has been a harsh critic of her boss, Donald Trump. In a Washington Post op-ed piece published last Thursday, Conway called upon Congress to remove Trump from office, calling him a “cancer” on the oval office and unfavorably comparing him to Richard Nixon.
In his written letter, Conway cites the Mueller report as proof of Trump’s misguided priorities and morally bankrupt nature. “The investigation that Trump tried to interfere with here, to protect his own personal interests, was in significant part an investigation of how a hostile foreign power interfered with our democracy,” Conway explained. “If that’s not putting personal interests above a presidential duty to the nation, nothing is.” Moreover, he added how Nixon, who resigned as a consequence of the Watergate scandal, was “passive” in comparison to Trump.
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“White House counsel John Dean famously told Nixon that there was a cancer within the presidency and that it was growing. What the Mueller report disturbingly shows, with crystal clarity, is that today there is a cancer in the presidency: President Donald J. Trump,” Conway wrote. “Congress now bears the solemn constitutional duty to excise that cancer without delay,” he concluded.
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On Tuesday, Conway tweeted out a flurry of tweets reiterating his sentiment, claiming “Trump’s misconduct is worse than the misconduct that led to Nixon’s resignation.” Conway concludes that those who had framed the Constitution would know to remove Trump from office and urged Congress to follow their wisdom.
… in fact, it’s why Trump’s misconduct is worse than the misconduct that led to Nixon’s resignation:https://t.co/XUNHA5O0Gy pic.twitter.com/rj2YdCbvc4
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) April 23, 2019
In the subsequent tweets in his thread, Conway accuses the president of placing “his own vanity and self-interest above that of the nation and people whose laws and Constitution he swore to faithfully execute and uphold.”
Put another way, a president takes an oath in which he “solemnly swear[s] [to] support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” Here, in attempting to subvert the investigation into Russia’s effort’s to interfere ….
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) April 23, 2019
… with our electoral process, Trump violated that oath and put his own vanity and self-interest above that of the nation and people whose laws and Constitution he swore to faithfully execute and uphold. If that’s not impeachable, nothing is.
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) April 23, 2019
This is a simple point, and it doesn’t turn on the kaleidoscopic meaning of collusion or the criminal-law technicalities of obstruction. It goes to something very fundamental:
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) April 23, 2019
Do we have a president who is loyal to the country, or loyal only to himself? When you put the question that way, and the object of the question is Donald J. Trump, now that we know all that we know about him and have seen all that we have seen, there can only be one answer.
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) April 23, 2019
And for the Framers of our Constitution, if you posed to them the question of whether the impeachment clause was directed at public officials who placed their own selfish interests above those of the nation’s, they would have said, yes, that’s exactly what we had in mind.
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) April 23, 2019
For them, the case of Donald J. Trump would have been an easy one. It should be an easy one for us as well.
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) April 23, 2019
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