September 29, 2016 | No Comments
Donald Trump’s campaign manager on Thursday said she scolded the Republican presidential nominee for his denigrating comments about women.
“Did you reprimand him for that and say to him: ‘Listen, why are you saying women are fat? Why are you calling women fat pigs?’” Joy Behar asked Kellyanne Conway during her appearance on “The View.” “Did you say that to him?”
“Yes,” Conway said, adding that it’s “beside the point.”
Conway dodged a question about Trump’s latest attacks on former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, whom Hillary Clinton brought into the political conversation Monday when she recalled that Trump has called her “Miss Piggy” and “Miss Housekeeping.”
Trump doubled down Tuesday, telling Fox News that “she gained a massive amount of weight, and it was a real problem,” and on Wednesday, he took credit for saving her from a pink slip. “I saved her job because they wanted to fire her for putting on so much weight,” he told Fox News host Bill O’Reilly in an interview broadcast Wednesday evening.
Asked how she feels about Trump’s comments toward women, Conway said, “Well, I don’t discuss people’s weights and their looks.” Instead, she suggested that viewers watching her interview were probably tweeting about her looks and intelligence as she spoke.
“I never knew how ugly and how stupid I was until, you know, we had Twitter,” she said.
After confirming that she reprimanded Trump for his comments, she said the real estate mogul told her that he gave Machado “a second chance.”
“The company involved wanted her terminated,” Conway said. “Hold on. No, that is just the truth. Hold on. I want everybody to know this. Because she was in breach of contract and the company wanted her terminated, he gave her a second chance. The choices were give her a second chance or terminate her, and he did that. He also has said publicly, I think last night, he’s talked to her very briefly over any number of years. This was 20 years ago, and she obviously has a troubled past that I won’t get into.”