George Conway called former President Donald Trump “a pig” on Friday after E. Jean Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan claimed Trump had used a cryptic reference to the word “c*nt” towards her following the Carroll defamation trial.
Reacting to Kaplan’s claim that Trump had told her he would “see you next Tuesday” – a phrase sometimes used as a more subtle way to call someone the c-word – Conway said:
It’s just appalling. I mean, he’s a pig, and the fact that he was president of the United States makes it all the more distressing. I mean, it was misogynistic. I mean, to call a woman that to her face and trying to be cute about it. I mean, it was just disgraceful and the kind of indecent conduct that you wouldn’t expect in any adult. I mean it was just– I wouldn’t even say it was teenage boy-level conduct. It was just utterly, utterly childish, and you know, it’s not that surprising that Trump does this. I mean, we know– we’ve seen him do all sorts of crude things over time.
Conway told Collins that the most recent incident “brought to mind” a controversy in 2019 when Trump “was congratulating a pair of female astronauts who had conducted an EVA, a spacewalk outside the space shuttle, and it was the first all-female EVA.”
He recalled:
He said, “
Oh, this is the first time a woman’s ever been outside the space shuttle.” And then the astronaut, the female astronaut gently corrected him, and he clearly was taken aback. It was a very gentle, very respectful correction, and he starts to touch his forehead as if to scratch an itch, but he used his middle finger, and there was this huge controversy: “Was he really giving the finger to these astronauts?”
Conway concluded, “People gave him the benefit of the doubt, but I find it hard to give him the benefit of the doubt after seeing all of this conduct.”
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