Kellyanne Conway: Trump’s ‘Toying With Everybody’ by Attacking Bloomberg Over Stop and Frisk
“The president is toying with everybody by saying, had he said something like that everyone would say ‘racist, racist, racist.’”
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said on Sunday that President Donald Trump was “toying with everybody” when he attacked Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg as “racist” over his previous support of stop and frisk, a policy Trump himself has long endorsed. Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace asked Conway about Trump’s since-deleted tweet calling the former New York City mayor a “total racist” over inflammatory remarks Bloomberg made in 2015 defending the policy. Conway responded: “The president is toying with everybody by saying, had he said something like that everyone would say ‘racist, racist, racist.’”
Conway also took aim at Bloomberg over a recent Washington Post report detailing allegations of sexism from dozens of women, calling it “fair game,” prompting Wallace to ask if it is “fair game for President Trump when he’s made sexist comments too.” Conway claimed that Trump’s infamous Access Hollywood remarks were already “fully litigated” because he was elected “a month later.”
Kellyanne Conway addresses the back-and-forth rhetoric between Michael Bloomberg and President Trump. The President has been attacking Bloomberg over his stop-and-frisk record despite his previous support of the policy. Kellyanne reacts exclusively on FOX News Sunday. #FNS pic.twitter.com/McRKEgJ1Y4
— FoxNewsSunday (@FoxNewsSunday) February 16, 2020
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