After airing her sharp criticism of Donald Trump’s consideration of Mitt Romney for secretary of state across
the morning talk show circuit, Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway ripped
MSNBC’s report that Trump was “furious” at her for doing so.
“Kellyanne
went rogue at the worst possible time,” Mika Brzezinski, co-host of
MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” said during the show Monday, quoting sources at
the top of Trump’s transition team who said they were “baffled” by
Conway’s public crusade.
“Morning
Joe” host Joe Scarborough suggested that Conway, Trump’s former
campaign manager and the senior adviser to his transition team, is
lashing out because she hasn’t been offered a job in the Trump
administration.
“Kellyanne doesn’t have a job yet, and she’s angry about that,” Scarborough said.
Conway responded in a message Scarborough read on-air.
“We
have a response from Kellyanne Conway,” he said, “who says about our
reporting this morning, ‘It is sexist.’ She says she can have any job
she wants.”
Scarborough’s reporting is notable as he has personally given Trump advice regarding potential secretary of state candidates, according to the New York Times. Scarborough, a former Republican congressman who feuded with Trump during the campaign, has used his show to blast the other leading contender for Trump’s secretary of state, former New York City Mayor Rudy
On
Sunday, Conway appeared on multiple talk shows to voice her concern
over the president-elect’s consideration of Romney for the top Cabinet
position.
“I’m
not campaigning against anyone. I’m just a concerned citizen,” Conway
said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. “And I am just astonished at
the breathtaking volume and intensity of blowback that I see just as one
person close to the president-elect.
“People
feel betrayed to think Gov. Romney, who went out of his way to question
the character and the intellect and the integrity of Donald Trump, now
our president-elect, would be given the most significant Cabinet post of
all,” Conway continued.
“I’m
hearing from people who say, ‘Hey, my parents died penniless, but I
gave $216 to Donald Trump’s campaign, and I would feel betrayed,’” she
said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
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