Trump news today: Kellyanne Conway says ex-president offered her a blanket
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Kellyanne Conway, one of Donald Trump’s longest-standing political confidants and White House aides, has revealed that the ex-president offered her a blanket pardon after the 2020 election.
In her new memoir Here’s the Deal, Ms Conway writes that she asked the president why he thought she needed a pardon at all.
“Because they go after everyone, honey. It doesn’t matter,” Mr Trump allegedly said. Ms Conway claims she “politely declined” the offer.
Meanwhile, Mr Trump is facing a bipartisan backlash after he shared a post on his social media platform Truth Social seemingly calling for “civil war” in the United States.
Mr Trump “retruthed” a user’s “civil war” comment on a post from right-wing conspiracy theorist Lara Logan, which in turn was a screengrab of El Salvadorian president Nayib Bukele‘s criticism of America.
“The most powerful country in the world is falling so fast, that it makes you rethink what are the real reasons,” Mr Bukele wrote on Twitter. “Something so big and powerful can’t be destroyed so quickly, unless the enemy comes from within.”
Kellyanne Conway describes Trump’s pardon offer
In her new book Here’s the Deal, which like other Trump administration memoirs has spawned multiple stories before it’s even been released, Kellyanne Conway has a very strange anecdote about Mr Trump offering her a pardon for unspecified offences she did not expect to be charged with.
“Do you want one?” Mr Trump reportedly asked her.
“Do you know something, I don’t,” Ms Conway says she replied. “Why would I need a pardon?”
“Because they go after everyone, honey. It doesn’t matter,” Mr Trump said, according to the book.
Ms Conway says the conversation ended with her “politely declin[ing]”.
Sravasti Dasgupta has the story.
Andrew Naughtie24 May 2022 12:10
Opinion: How not to react to Trump’s “civil war” rhetoric
Writing for The Independent, Noah Berlatsky takes a look at the “civil war” rhetoric emanating from some of Donald Trump’s supporters – rhetoric that has recently been shared by the president himself on his bespoke Twitter alternative, Truth Social.
Many Democrats and other Trump critics have jumped at the chance to ridicule this sort of talk, dismissing it as the empty ramblings of people safely hidden behind their keyboards. But Noah argues that in their haste to pounce on this performative belligerence, the president’s opponents are missing a crucial point.
Yes, Trump is not, personally, going to take up arms. But that’s not the main problem with his call for “Civil War”. The main problem is that he has followers who may, like the case of the Buffalo shooter, decide to kill those they perceive as political enemies. When Trump frames opponents as traitors worthy of brutality and extermination, he’s encouraging political divison and political violence. He does that in part by equating leadership and manly brutality. Democrats like Swalwell shouldn’t help him do that.
Read his full argument below.
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