George Conway, Kellyanne's husband, is going rogue on Twitter with Trump criticism

[highplainsdem]

HuffPo article last night:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/george-conway-twitter-trump_us_5ab553bee4b0decad049d7e0

George Conway, husband of presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway and onetime candidate to be U.S. solicitor general, has historically not been a very active Twitter user. He joined the site over six years ago and has since sent just a few more than 500 tweets, including retweets. About 200 of those 500 tweets, though, have come this month — and of those, nearly half were written with the express purpose of castigating his wife’s boss, President Donald Trump.

Something has gotten into Conway, who most famously worked for Paula Jones in her lawsuit against Bill Clinton. The corporate lawyer tweeted not a single thing in 2015 (or if he did, he’s since deleted all those messages). Same goes for 2016. In 2017, Conway tweeted 31 times, six of which could be considered critical of President Trump. Those six received quite a bit of press at the time, since his wife’s vaguely defined role consists largely of defending the president at all costs.

After that, Conway tweeted mostly about sports or general government legal matters, steering clear of any direct Trump criticisms.

In January of this year, Conway shot off 10 tweets, all similarly benign. In February, however, he tweeted and retweeted a total of 43 times, starting with a retweet in praise of conservative columnist Mona Charen, who had blasted Trump from the stage of the Conservative Political Action Conference.

And this month so far, Conway has sent forth about 200 tweets and retweets, roughly half of which criticize Trump to varying degrees. The tweet below, in which Conway praises a thread questioning the timing of Trump’s ouster of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, seems to mark the beginning of the great George Conway Twitter reckoning of 2018.

Link to tweet

Since then, Mr. Kellyanne Conway has been tweeting and retweeting like a lover scorned. Here’s just a small sampling of his weekslong pro-Robert Mueller, anti-Trump rampage.

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Just checked Conway's Twitter account again.

Two of the last 7 tweets -- all retweets -- are retweets of articles about lawyers Dan Webb and Tom Buchanan turning Trump down. Another is about Ted Olson, who turned Trump down earlier, criticizing the turmoil in the White House. Another is crititical of Trump's tariffs. The other three are about sports (including one on the gymnastics scandal).

[Cha]

1. How funny and weird.. can you imagine

what their dinner conversations are like?

Go George

[SDJay]

5. Its Probably

Already hard enough to talk to that woman as she feasts on kittens and people’s dreams of a better world.

[Snotcicles]

2. Dinner " Honey please pass the Hatch Act. I mean the potatoes". nt

[struggle4progress]

3. Titanic! Sad!

&t=8s

[SeattleVet]

7. Jaimie Brockett's version is more appropriate to this gang...

historical accuracy be damned!

[struggle4progress]

14. That's a classic. My friends and I listened to that many many times years ago

she-it baby i ain gonna make rope no more

[CentralMass]

4. Conway Twitty ;-)

[poboy2]

12. amusing. -nt

[hlthe2b]

6. He's not exactly a "pretty boy" and he is a damned Repug, after all, BUT he can surely do better

than that walking sociopathic skeletor, Kellyanne.

[JI7]

8. Maybe an attempt to save one of their future careers.

[gratuitous]

9. Don't know anything about Twitter

Is it possible to re-tweet George's tweets in a way that would bring them directly to the attention of the president? A hashtag or something? Not that anyone should do such a thing, because that would put Trump right off his ice cream.

[.99center]

10. George retweeted an article about Christopher Steele today.

Link to tweet

Kellyanne can't convince her own husband that her boss isn't compromised by Putin?

[peggysue2]

11. Wonder if any of this is a . . .

CYA action to protect the families' interests and/or past activities? Is he hoping wifey-poo gets fired and removed from the widening cesspool?

Don't trust these actors At All.

[wishstar]

13. Maybe he's finally ready to Dump Trump for a more stable President Pence

I have a close relative who is a staunch rightwinger but he turned against Trump after the stock market volatility ramped up earlier this year. My relative is disgusted with Trump's instability and impulsiveness now that stock market has the jitters.