When Donald Trump was going to assume the presidency after the 2016 election, all eyes were on his campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, who steered his messaging and helped give him the keys to the White House.
She continued to have a more public role in the administration as a counselor to the president, but an unlikely voice began to counter much of the work she was doing during her tenure.
In her newly-released memoir, "Here's the Deal," Kellyanne said that her husband wasbeaming after the election.
Two years later, Kellyanne was having to answer for her husband's many anti-Trump posts, with her partner seemingly turning on the then-president in the most public way.
Despite her support of Trump, Kellyanne said that she was not happy with the public nature of his opposition to the GOP leader.
She wrote that no one objected to George's about-face on Trump even if they didn't understand it. The puzzling part was how public he was with his differences of opinion.
She said that this was out of character for George. They were so shocked that they asked if he and I had a plan, as if I would be in on a ruse to let loose on the president and the people around him. All silly. If this were a show, I didn't want to be a part of it.
Kellyanne wrote that she felt that her husband wasmoralizing while also violating his marriage vows. In the book, she pointed to a June 2020 message from her husband that captured the separation between the couple.
No one is compelled to work for, speak for, defend, explain, rationalize, or excuse this president and his incompetence, derangement, and racism. It is a moral choice that is crucial for individuals and the nation.
The former Trump counselor was unhappy with the tone of the tweets, especially when her husband tagged Trump.
She wrote that Trump was too busy and disinterested to notice. If he wasn't trying to hurt Donald Trump or drive him out of the White House, who was his intended target?
Kellyanne stated that she stopped talking about politics with her husband.
She wrote that George and she barely spoke about politics or Trump.
She wanted her husband to stop using social media and return to the person he was before Trump was elected.
She wanted the old George, the loving husband and father who did not spend the day in an online swastika about the same stuff over and over.