George Conway, attorney and husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, was in disbelief on Wednesday when Donald Trump falsely claimed that Judge Amy Berman Jackson exonerated him of collusion.
During the sentencing of Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, the judge said that the question of collusion was unrelated to Manafort’s case, which involved witness tampering and unregistered lobbying.
On Wednesday evening, Conway tweeted video of Trump’s statement, adding, “Have we ever seen this degree of brazen, pathological mendacity in American public life?”
Last week, Trump accidentally called Apple CEO Tim Cook “Tim Apple,” and he wouldn’t stop talking about it, claiming at one point the “fake news” made up the error.
This was a “harmless slip of the tongue, something any mentally balanced person would laugh off,” Conway said. “But instead he lies about it. He denies what the world can see on videotape.”
Conway isn’t sure it’s even “possible to count” how many times Trump has lied, and people need to start taking the matter seriously. “It’s beyond politics,” he said. “It’s nuts. It’s a disorder. Whether or not impeachment is in order, a serious inquiry needs to be made about this man’s condition of mind.”
Take a look:
#SummaCumLiar [1] https://t.co/nwK4Tl7YId [2]
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) March 13, 2019 [3]
Have we ever seen this degree of brazen, pathological mendacity in American public life? One day he makes a harmless slip of the tongue, something any mentally balanced person would laugh off.
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) March 14, 2019 [4]
But instead he lies about it. He denies what the world can see on videotape. Even his donors and supporters wonder, what is wrong with him? Why would be feel compelled to tell such an absurd lie?
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) March 14, 2019 [5]
But one lie on any subject is never enough for Donald Trump. So he next tells a different lie. Yes, I omitted a word, but to save time. A ridiculous assertion, of course—he really said “Tim Apple” instead of “Tim Cook of Apple” to save **a third of a second**?
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) March 14, 2019 [6]
This man who recently gave a incoherent, rambling two-hour-plus speech, this man not known for economy of words? Another absurd, crazy lie. Pathological. And now, another one. The judge says, in open court, that Manafort’s lawyers’ “no collusion” “mantra”was patently …
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) March 14, 2019 [7]
ridiculous because it was irrelevant to the charges at hand—not that there was no proof of collusion, just that whether there was or wasn’t was irrelevant to the proceedings at hand. And yet he lies again—a blatant lie—about what the judge said in open court.
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) March 14, 2019 [8]
Again, pathological. It’s not rational, because it’s a lie that no reasonable person would believe. It undermines his credibility. It’s self-defeating.
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) March 14, 2019 [9]
But these are just two of … how many examples? Hundreds? Thousands? Is it possible to count? At any level of government in this country, in any party, have we ever seen anything like this? It’s beyond politics. It’s nuts. It’s a disorder.
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) March 14, 2019 [10]
Whether or not impeachment is in order, a serious inquiry needs to be made about this man’s condition of mind.
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) March 14, 2019 [11]