Kellyanne Conway is supporting President Donald Trump’s call to investigate the anonymous author of a bombshell anti-Trump New York Times op-ed, and says that the writer could be investigated for criminal activity.
“There can be an investigation if there is criminal activity, perhaps,” Conway told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union,” as The Hill reported (video below).
“There doesn’t appear to be any” criminal activity, Tapper reminded her.
“”I don’t know that. I don’t think you know that,” Conway insisted. “It really would depend on what else has been divulged by the individual. Anybody who would do this, you don’t know what else they’re saying.”
In other words, Conway is supporting the administration’s belief that it is acceptable to use the Dept. of Justice as the president’s personal police force, with zero evidence, to suppress dissent. She is suggesting, without evidence, that because someone inside the White House opposes the president, they very well may have committed criminal acts.
The author of the op-ed was identified by The New York Times only as “a senior official in the Trump administration whose identity is known to us and whose job would be jeopardized by its disclosure.”
“I have literally no idea, nor do you, what else this person has divulged. I think somebody so cowardly and so conceited would probably –” Conway said, until Tapper interjected, reminding her that investigations are not conducted on hypothetical behavior.
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