Election 2020

George Conway Says Trump Might Plead Insanity if He’s Charged With Any Crimes Relating to January 6th

Conservative attorney and Lincoln Project co-founder George Conway has some unique insights into former President Donald Trump, thanks to his wife Kellyanne, Trump’s former Senior Counselor. And now, Conway, according to Queerty, is being rather coy while at the same time revealing very telling information about someone he knows “very well.”

Might he be referring to the wifey? George won’t tell. But he will however imply.

And that’s just what he did on The Bulwark’s Beg To Differ podcast, where he implied that Kellyanne thinks Trump ran “a crappy campaign” and apparently suggested the former president may be laying the groundwork to plead insanity if he’s charged with any crimes related to the violent riot at the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.

“[Trump] learned in so many different ways that he had lost,” Conway said. “And, frankly, he said to people, one of whom I know very well, but I won’t specify who she is (cough-cough), ‘How could I have lost to this guy?’ And she basically said, ‘You know, you ran a crappy campaign.’ She wasn’t alone in telling him that. I’m not—again—I’m not going to say who that was.”

While George remained mum on this person’s identity, it’s pretty much assumed he’s referring to Kellyanne.

And he brought up something else that’s rather, well, interesting. He claimed that Trump knew full well that he lost the 2020 election fairly and squarely, but he’s pretending otherwise in order to bring the cray-cray in an attempt to seem cray-cray and thus avoid prosecution.

“So he knew he lost, okay? He admitted from time to time that he lost, ‘How could I lose to that guy?'” Conway said. “And the only way he can get out from under that is to basically try to prove that he is completely delusional and stupid.”

And while all of us know that already, Conway says he doesn’t think this ploy is going to work.

” I don’t think it would be enough,” he said. “Especially before a jury in the District of Columbia. And the first jury to hear a January 6th case convicted a January 6th defendant in four hours. So there’s a big problem here that he has.”

“If somebody takes this seriously at the Justice Department—and if you take Merrick Garland at his word, because he said in a speech back in January, that they were not going to draw any artificial lines about who they could prosecute—they were going to work their way up in that way that you do in mob investigations, and other large investigations.”

“You have to look at Donald Trump,” Conway said, summing things up, “because all the roads lead to him.”

So is this really going to be Trump’s gambit if he is charged with any crimes in connection with the January 6th attack on the Capitol? Lots of people have long thought Trump went off the deep end before he became president, but whether any of the members of the House Select Committee who have spent months investigating this will buy this is anyone’s guess. But my guess, however, is that this is unlikely.

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Megan has lived in California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida and she currently lives in Central America. Living in these places has informed her writing on politics, science, and history. She is currently owned by 15 cats and 3 dogs and regularly owns Trump supporters when she has the opportunity. She can be found on Twitter at https://twitter.com/GaiaLibra and Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/politicalsaurus

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