Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway sarcastically suggested on Fox News Channel Wednesday that she and Hillary Clinton team up and help victims of sexual abuse.
‘She can call me in the White House today – she knows the number, she was the first lady for eight years – and work in a bipartisan fashion on sexual assault,’ Conway said. ‘I welcome that, we don’t hear that from her.’
Conway was wagging her finger at Clinton for taking so long to respond to the various harassment and assault accusations against Hollywood heavyweight and Democratic donor Harvey Weinstein.
Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway shamed Hillary Clinton for not condemning producer Harvey Weinstein fast enough. Weinstein has racked up various sexual misconduct allegations in recent days
Kellyanne Conway (right) told Fox News Channel’s Bill Hummer (left) that Hillary Clinton was free to call her at the White House so they could team up and help sexual assault victims
Former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton was slow to respond to the flurry of sex allegations against campaign donor Harvey Weinstein, a top producer in Hollywood
This photo from 2004 shows Hillary Clinton (right) then a U.S. senator, with Miramax boss Harvey Weinstein (left), a Democratic superdonor accused of being a sexual predator
On Tuesday Conway tweeted: ‘It took Hillary abt 5 minutes to blame NRA for madman’s rampage, but 5 days to sorta-kinda blame Harvey Weinstein 4 his sexually assaults.’
She sang a similar tune Wednesday with Fox News Channel’s Bill Hemmer.
‘On this, I felt like a woman who ran to be commander-in-chief and president of the United States, the first one ever, who talks about women’s empowerment, took an awfully long time to give support to those women who were coming forward,’ Conway said.
‘And has still, as far as we know Bill, kept the money,’ Conway told Hemmer. ‘Kept the dirty money that dirty Harvey has given her in her campaign.’
As accusations mounted against Weinstein, Clinton stayed quiet, as a number of publications – including this one – asked for comment.
On Tuesday she released a statement through her spokesman Nick Merrill, the press secretary on her campaign.
‘I was shocked and appalled by the revelations about Harvey Weinstein. The behavior described by women coming forward cannot be tolerated. Their courage and the support of others is critical in helping to stop this behavior,’ Clinton’s statement read.
The former Democratic nominee’s hesitation did seem out-of-place as Clinton has been very vocal in recent weeks, as she’s been touring and giving interviews as part of the release of her campaign tome, What Happened.
Conway latched on to this in her condemnation of her boss’ former political rival as well.
‘What has she done privately in her private life?’ Conway asked. ‘She is on a book tour talking about herself and the campaign she lost. She is not talking about women’s empowerment.’
Conway also pointed to the fact that Clinton made great hay out of the infamous Access Hollywood video that came out last year, in which now President Trump uttered that he was so famous he could grab women, against their will, ‘by the p***y.’
‘She spent a month this time last year talking about an audio tape from 11 years earlier where a statement was made by the now-president of the United States,’ Conway said, suggesting Clinton was a ‘hypocrite about women’s empowerment.’
At the time, Clinton called the Access Hollywood tape ‘horrific.’
‘We cannot allow this man to become president,’ she tweeted.
Instead of just issuing an apology, candidate Trump muddied the water by bringing up accusations of sexual harassment and assault thrown at Bill Clinton too.
He told audiences that Bill Clinton made actions, while what Trump said was merely ‘locker room talk.’
At the second presidential debate in St. Louis, Trump paraded around a number of women who have made allegations against the ex-Democratic president over the years.
At the debate, Trump stood his ground.
‘This was locker room talk. I’m not proud of it. I apologized to my family. I apologized to the American people. Certainly I’m not proud of it,’ he said. ‘But this is locker room talk.’