Report: Ivanka ‘Scolded’ Conway for Plugging Her Clothes on Fox News

White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway didn’t have a good week. It started with a heated interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper where she conceded that his network is not “fake news,” continued to walk back the “Bowling Green Massacre,” and seemingly admitted that President Trump lies. From there, she told Fox News viewers to buy products from Ivanka Trump’s clothing line, setting off concerns about ethical violations that she may have committed. On Monday, a new report surfaced suggesting that it wasn’t just Democrats and “never Trump” Republicans who she raised the ire of, but also Ivanka herself.

According to a report from Politico, “a source close to [President] Trump” is saying that Ivanka “scolded” Conway for getting her brand mired in the ethics discussion before telling her never to bring the clothing line up again on TV. Apparently, the president’s eldest daughter had told her father that she didn’t want her business mixed in with political talk, but Conway was never looped in, and the lack of communication led to her making a mess.

Meanwhile, as for White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s assertion that Conway was “counseled” about the gaffe, the president himself was not a fan of the verbiage, asking “Why would you use that word? Whose idea was that?”

In addition, a producer from a network that isn’t CNN has apparently expressed concern that Conway doesn’t have as big a role in the administration as she is said to have publicly. “We’ve been more selective on who we have on from the administration. The decision makers are Reince Priebus, Jared Kushner, and Steve Bannon; we should be focusing on those guys,” they said. The story quotes Conway as rebutting the producer’s concern by saying that it “sounds a little sexist.”

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