In her new memoir, Here’s the Deal, coming out today, Kelian Conway rarely criticizes former President Donald Trump, but she is candid about the last months of his presidency, saying other senior officials have done nothing to cement or to communicate his impressive political legacy and to introduce a conspiracy theory after fraud after insidiousness. ”
Conway left her job as a special adviser to the president four months before the Capitol riots on January 6, 2021. She writes that she worked as a mother at the home of her four children when she saw a tweet from Donald J. Trump Jr. pops up on her phone, “That’s wrong, not who we are.”
“It seemed mysterious and urgent both at the same time,” she wrote. She turned on the TV and learned that the Trump rally had become a siege of the Capitol of the Nation.
Meanwhile, Conway received a text from an ally of DC Mayor Muriel Bowser seeking help from the White House to put the National Guard in place, a request initially rejected by Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, she wrote.
Conway was in her fourth month as a mother staying home when she heard about the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. AP Conway said she had begged the president to end the siege and deploy the National Guard.
Conway writes that she called an aide to Trump and made three urgent points: “Add me to the course of people calling on the president to tell the people in the Capitol to stop… second, there are requests for the deployment of the National Guard… Finally, can he clarify his Twitter feed. ”
Two days later, Twitter banned Trump’s account, former aide Steve Bannon and “other dubious heroes were pardoned,” and Congress was again busy imposing Trump, she wrote.
In the end, despite the mountains of money raised for the campaign, Trump’s team simply failed to re-elect him, while encouraging him in private to win, she wrote. “The team failed on November 3 and then failed again,” not confronting the reality of his loss.
Trump’s other top officials have done nothing to “cement or pass on his impressive political legacy and carry it out.”[ed] in conspiracy theory after fraud after fraud, “Conway wrote. AFP via Getty Images “The team failed [Election Day] and they failed again after that “, without confronting Trump with the reality of his loss, Conway writes. Getty Images
Conway writes that four years ago, on her 50th birthday, she watched Trump take the oath. Four years later, she watches Joe Biden do the same. “It didn’t have to be that way,” she wrote.
However, it ends with an inspiring note, at least for the country, if not for her marriage, which was beaten during her stay at the White House, while her husband George posted ugly tweets about Trump.
“Democracy will survive. “America will survive,” she wrote. “George and I may not survive.
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