Presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway said Tuesday she "totally" disagrees with her husband, attorney George Conway, who contended in an opinion piece for The Washington Post that President Donald Trump is a racist.
"I work with this president and I know him," Conway told Fox News' "America's Newsroom." "I know his heart and actions and how much he has helped people of color and I go by what people do, not what other people say about them."
Further, she said she does not point out everyone's disagreements with the people in their lives, even though she can.
Conway added that she knows Trump's record in office and that she's worked with Trump for more than three years, so she knows him well.
In his opinion piece, George Conway — a frequent critic of Trump's — directly called Trump a racist, saying that he still remembers when someone told his own mother, an immigrant from the Phillippines, to go back to her own country.
"I thought, President Trump was boorish, dim-witted, inarticulate, incoherent, narcissistic and insensitive," Conway wrote, talking about several episodes concerning the president. "No matter how much I found him ultimately unfit, I still gave him the benefit of the doubt about being a racist."
But the tweets against Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib "left no doubt" that "naivete, resentment and outright racism, roiled in a toxic mix, have given us a racist president," he wrote.
Kellyanne Conway Tuesday also defended her decision to skip a subpoena from the House Oversight Committee, calling it the "latest example" of lawmakers trying to harass people close to Trump.
There is a longstanding precedent that provides immunity for the president's senior advisers, she said, and "I qualify as one."
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