Kellyanne
Conway tells US Senators to fall in line
Source: https://gma.yahoo.com/conway-gop-senators-support-president-123603352--abc-news-topstories.html
Conway: GOP
Senators Need to Support President Trump
By Michael Edison Hayden 3 hours ago
President Trump's
counselor Kellyanne Conway defended his criticism of GOP Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham today, saying the president's fellow Republicans need to back his
leadership.
"We want them to be
there for the president and support him," she said on ABC News' "Good Morning America" on Monday.
Conway was responding to
questions from ABC News' chief anchor, George Stephanopoulos, about Trump's response on Twitter on Sunday
after McCain and Graham issued a joint statement criticizing Trump's executive order on immigration and refugees.
Conway asserted that
Trump has accomplished an impressive amount in the short time since he took
office, saying, "I mean, Donald Trump has been on the job for — what? — eight, nine, 10 days. Barack
Obama was here for eight years," she said. "The extraordinary
accomplishments in just the first week truly are breathtaking."
The executive order
signed Friday suspends immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries in
the Middle East and Africa — Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Iraq, Iran and Libya
— for 90 days. It also blocks refugees from entering the country for 120 days;
refugees from Syria are barred indefinitely.
When Stephanopoulos
asked Conway why the order, which repeatedly cites the 9/11 terrorist attacks,
covers none of the three countries where those attackers were from — Saudi
Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates — she said Trump's order follows the
Obama administration's lead.
"These countries
were identified by President Obama. President Trump is merely following
President Obama's lead on state-sponsored terrorist countries, where they have
a history of training and exporting, harboring terrorists," she said.
She added that many of
those protesting against the order may not understand what it really says and
suggested that the media has overblown its impact.
"This is temporary. It is narrowly
prescribed," she said.
Analysis
– Sounds very much do it my way, or go to your corner and ignore the interests
of OUR COUNTRY.
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