Former Trump adviser, husband plan to divorce
WASHINGTON — Kellyanne Conway, a Republican strategist and longtime adviser to former President Donald Trump, and George Conway, a conservative lawyer who became one of Trump’s fiercest critics, are planning to divorce after 22 years of marriage, people familiar with the arrangement said. The couple has four children.
The development, reported earlier by The New York Post, surprised few people in Washington, who for four years of the Trump presidency were bewildered by the sometimes publicly hostile dynamic between the onetime Republican power couple. The animosity on display made it apparent that this was not a D.C. odd couple for the Trump era, but a unit more seriously threatened by their political disagreements.
George Conway, once a Trump supporter, began publicly rebuking Trump shortly after he was sworn into office, when he fired James Comey, the director of the FBI. Appalled by the president’s attacks on the rule of law, George Conway quickly gained a cult following on Twitter as he ramped up his critiques, declaring him unfit to hold office.
Despite the awkwardness, Kellyanne Conway maintained her loyalty to Trump and today remains in frequent contact with him. She is also a contributor on Fox News.
In a text message Saturday, Kellyanne Conway denigrated the reporter writing about her divorce for having “the gossip girl beat.”
Trump, however, weighed in on his social media network and congratulated her on her divorce from her “wacko husband,” whom he described as a “disgusting albatross around her neck.”
George Conway replied, telling the president that he was “looking forward to seeing you in New York at E. Jean’s trial next month! Hugs and kisses,” a reference to writer E. Jean Carroll, who has accused Trump of raping her in the mid-1990s and filed suit against him last year.