George Conway has given an interview where he unburdens his reasons for becoming one of President Trump's sharpest online critics, saying he has to call out the president's 'maddening' conduct to avoid venting to his wife about it.
Conway, whose wife Kellyanne serves as counselor to the president, tacked on a few more insults to her boss, citing Trump's 'incompetence' as he revealed how he came from Trump supporter to a critic who fears he is jeopardizing the rule of law.
He pushed back after the president called him a 'loser!' online, and noted the times Trump praised his legal capacity after his intervention in a dispute to prevent a condo board from stripping away Trump's name.
'It's so maddening to watch,' Conway, prominent Washington lawyer told the Washington Post.
Mr. Conway had tweeted a series of pages from a psychiatric diagnosis manual, suggested the president is mentally ill
'The mendacity, the incompetence, it's just maddening to watch,' he said. 'The tweeting is just the way to get it out of the way, so I can get it off my chest and move on with my life that day. That's basically it. Frankly, it's so I don't end up screaming at her about it,' he said, in reference to his wife.
The awkward and highly public war of words came to a head this week after Trump went on a weekend twitter storm against his perceived enemies, and Conway tweeted the definitions to 'narcissistic personality disorder' in response.
'It stuck this time because of the utter bizarreness this weekend, his own conduct. It was so illustrative,' Conway told the paper.
Conway also pushed back on Trump 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale's claim on Twitter that Trump turned Conway down for a senior-level Justice Department position.
He said he based his own decision to withdraw on Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey, which was followed by the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel in the Russia probe.
'I’m thinking to myself, this guy is going to be at war with the Justice Department for the next two years. I’m not doing this,' Conway said.
Later, at Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's wedding to Louise Linton, Conway says Trump approached him and said he made the right decision not to work for then Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
“He said to me, I remember it clearly, you were smart not to work for that guy. He said Trump added: 'He is so weak.' But according to Conway, he advised Trump that Sessions decision to recuse himself from the Russia probe was 'pretty clear.'
President Trump banded George Conway, his chief counselor Kellyanne Conway's husband, 'a total loser' on Monday
Conway also produced a 2006 letter where Trump praised his legal capacity and thanked him for his helping heading off a move by a condo board group to remove the Trump name from their building.
Trump wrote Conway: 'What I was most impressed with was how quickly you were able to comprehend a very bad situation.' Trump thanked the attorney for “ridding Trump World Tower of some very bad people,' then complimented Conway for having 'a truly great voice, certainly not a bad asset for a top trial lawyer!'
George Conway is 'a total loser,' Preisdent Donald Trump claimed on Tuesday, less than 24 hours after the Washington lawyer blasted him on Twitter as mentally ill.
And the president's 2020 campaign manager, Brad Parscale, claimed 'Mr. Kellyanne Conway' is 'jealous' of his more-famous wife's success after being bounced from a low-prestige job at the U.S. Department of Justice.
'He barely worked @TheJusticeDept and was either fired/quit, didn't want the scrutiny? Now he hurts his wife because he is jealous of her success. POTUS doesn't even know him!' Parscale tweeted Monday night.
Mr. Conway had launched a barrage of insults at the president on Monday evening, tweeting medical definitions of personality
