George Conway Rips ‘Morally Obscene’ Trump and Stefanik for Calling J6 Prisoners ‘Hostages’: ‘I Just Don’t Know How Much Lower They Can Go’

Conservative attorney George Conway lamented the state of his former political party on Monday, saying it is “obscene” that Republican leaders are calling those jailed in connection with the Capitol riot, “hostages.”

Former President Donald Trump has defended those charged with storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump spent the two months leading up to the riot falsely claiming the 2020 election was rigged against him.

On Monday’s AC360 on CNN, Anderson Cooper played a clip of the former president calling for the release of those who remain behind bars. Trump himself is under indictment in two jurisdictions for attempting to overthrow the election.

“They oughta release the J6 hostages,” Trump said at a campaign rally before appealing to President Joe Biden. “They’ve suffered enough. They oughta release them. I call them hostages. Some people call them prisoners. I call them hostages. Release the J6 hostages, Joe. Release them, Joe. You can do it real easy, Joe.”

“They’re not hostages and he knows that,” said Cooper, who played a clip of Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) – the fourth-ranking Republican in the House – echoing Trump.

“I have concerns about the treatments of January 6 hostages,” she told NBC News. “I have concerns. We have a role in Congress of oversight over our treatments of prisoners.

Cooper then welcomed Conway to the show.

“When you heart former president, first of all, using the term ‘hostages’ to refer to people who committed crimes on January 6, what do you think?” he asked the attorney.

“Oh, it’s completely obscene,” Conway responded. “I mean, the notion that these people who tried to overthrow the government at his behest, tried to end constitutional democracy in America, and who are being prosecuted, who were indicted by federal grand juries for their crimes against the United States – to say that they are hostages is just definitionally absurd, but just morally obscene.”

Conway went on to rip Stefanik and describe her comments as another nadir in the trajectory of the Trumpified Republican Party.

“The notion that people accept that, that he’s not drummed out of public life for saying something like that and that, indeed, people like Elise Stefanik parrot his lies is just one more condemnation, self-condemnation of the Republican party. I just don’t know how much lower they can go.”

Watch above via CNN.