‘I feel very empathetic, frankly, for victims of sexual assault and sexual harassment and rape. I’m a victim of sexual assault.’
That’s White House adviser Kellyanne Conway opening up on Sunday to CNN’s Jake Tapper during a conversation in which she defended the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
Tapper, after saying he was “deeply, personally very sorry,” then pointed out that Conway’s boss, President Donald Trump, has been the target in multiple sexual-assault allegations and has said that those women lied about them.
“Don’t conflate that with this, and certainly don’t conflate that with what happened to me,” she fired back at Tapper. “I work for President Trump because he’s so good to the women who work for him. So, I don’t want to hear it.”
Conway added that women making these allegations should go through the criminal justice system rather than letting them play out in such a partisan spectacle.
“We do treat people differently who are either the victims or perpetrators of this based on their politics now or based on their gender now,” she said. “That is a huge mistake.”
Watch the full interview:
A final vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination has been delayed to allow time for the FBI to investigate those allegations. Expect plenty more to come this coming week.
