Donald Trump has the right to do what he can — including posting a flurry of early-morning tweets attacking a former Miss Universe winner — to defend himself from the Hillary Clinton campaign's "coordinated media attack," campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said Tuesday.
"You've never seen such a coordinated attack on somebody," Conway told CNBC's "Squawk Box" program. "But secondly, I think Donald Trump is at his best when he sticks to the issues, when he talks about the failures of Obamacare."
Conway, though, thinks the issue isn't with Trump's temperament, but with Clinton's.
"I think she's got a terrible temperament," said Conway, quoting Clinton's statements last month to labor leaders in Las Vegas, where she demanded to know 'Why aren't I 50 points ahead?'
"That's just bizarre, and we should be playing that," said Conway. "I can tell you why she's not even at 50 percent, because people don't trust her and don't much want her to be president or commander in chief."
Telling the truth is a presidential quality, Conway continued, and Clinton's has been "terrible" when it comes to truthfulness and judgment.
Trump, meanwhile, is well-positioned to deliver on his promises, said Conway, and she believes "people are willing to really roll the dice here."
Conway also insisted Trump did nothing wrong when it comes to speculation over whether he did not pay income taxes for nearly two decades after experiencing a net operating loss of $916 million in 1995.
"It's not a loophole," she said. "It's a provision in the tax code."
And if the tax code is wrong, Conway said, President Barack Obama should have taken steps to fix it, particularly during the time when there was a Democratic majority in the House and Senate.
Trump has proposed an overhaul of the tax code to simplify it, said Conway, but she did not answer if those changes would include dropping the net operating losses provisions that benefited Trump over the years.
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