Kellyanne Conway Says "I'm a Victim of Sexual Assault"

[Novembrist]

https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/1046389562119843843

Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway appeared on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday morning to discuss this week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s accusations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. During the discussion with host Jake Tapper, Conway emphasized that the hearings were not a criminal trial or “a meeting of the #MeToo movement.”

She also revealed that she herself has been a victim of sexual assault.

“I feel very empathetic, frankly, for victims of sexual assault and sexual harassment and rape. I’m a victim of sexual assault,” she said. But then added, “I don’t expect Judge Kavanaugh, or Jake Tapper, or Jeff Flake, or anybody to be held responsible for that. You have to be responsible for your own conduct.”

Conway noted that media comparisons to Bill Cosby, who last week was sentenced to between three and 10 years in prison for sexual assault, are unfair. Tapper responded by saying he was sorry she had to go through an assault. He also tried to ask her about working for a president who has been accused of sexual assault himself. Conway told Tapper not to conflate the two, adding, “I work for Trump because he’s so good to the women who work for him, and he’s so good to the women of this country.”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/09/kellyanne-conway-says-im-a-victim-of-sexual-assault/

I'm new here, so NO comment. Discuss among yourselves if you so choose.

[Siwsan]

1. Kellyanne Conway is too comfortable with 'alternate facts'. She has zero credibility with me

If she called me by my name, I'd check my driver's license for verification.

And, welcome to DU!

[happy feet]

2. I agree.

I saw the tv clip and based on her demeanor followed by something like "women have to take responsibility for their actions too" - I'm doubting the veracity or seriousness of her claim. Probably gaslighting.

[Squinch]

3. I choose to believe her unless I see something to disprove her statement, which is what I wish

for all sexual assault survivors.

However, just because I believe she was assaulted, that doesn't mean I have to agree with her conclusion that her assault was caused by her not being responsible for her own conduct, as she seems to be suggesting.

Her conclusions about the cause of her assault are just dumb. That doesn't mean the assault didn't happen.

[marble falls]

9. 100% agreement.

[atreides1]

10. Her history isn't enough, to suspect lying???

She was the one who coined the term "alternative facts" wasn't she? This is the same woman, who while working for the Cruz campaign, said a lot of things about Trump:

https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2016/08/19/here-s-how-trump-s-new-campaign-manager-attacked-him-cable-news-pundit/212524


Conway has shown time and time again that she will do and say anything to keep her job, she went from calling out Trump to working for him and making excuses for his lying! Anything she claims is highly questionable, for all we know she was paid and given a script to make this statement!!!

[Squinch]

11. We are fighting to give every assault survivor a hearing. Because historically

women have gotten a hearing in about 4% of assault cases, and that's unacceptable.

So we need to hear all survivors. We need to believe women. Not just the ones we like.

[beachbum bob]

4. so did she report it to the cops like others have demanded Ford should have done? If not, what's her

reason? Did the the abuser go on to abuse other women because she didn't report it.

I have like 10 follow up questions she needs to answer

[Squinch]

12. In fighting for Ford, we have to be careful not to use the same horrible tactics that Ford's

inquisitors used on her.

[Fullduplexxx]

5. Did trump do some grabbing ?

[AZ8theist]

6. Lying liars and the lies they lie.

She's not credible at all. Especially since she was so traumatized at the Bowling Green Massacre. PTSD.

[Nitram]

7. BS

[marble falls]

8. I imagine that sexual assault has fewer false reports than other crime ...

because it is one of the few criminal processes that tends to judge the victim as harshly as the perpetrator. I believe Conway is a victim of sexual assault (I believe more women are than aren't, in light of the last decades news - tens of thousand of unanalyzed rape kits, no-billings of credible attacks, #me too and even our President is a sexual exploiter, military rape scandals etc).

Her support of the President demonstrates the inequality still present in the US. She's a walking conflict of victim/Stockholm syndrome/blind raw ambition. If she were a white male she'd be pushing none of her current baggage down the road.

I feel sorry for her even as I don't believe a thing she says otherwise.

[malthaussen]

13. Welcome to DU.

So, if we take Mrs Conway at face value, she seems to think that the "assault" was her own fault? If so, she needs to learn something about the locus of responsibility for an action.

-- Mal

[CTyankee]

14. As a victim myself, I can tell you why women often don't report it.

It's because women don't think they will be believed. My attacker was a fellow student my sophomore year in college. I thought he was a friend, altho not a close friend. When he came to my door he said he just needed to "talk." I thought he might be in some emotional pain so I let him in.That in itself was enough beck in those days to cast doubt on your assertion.

[SummerSnow]

15. "You have to be responsible for your own conduct." Smh

Blame the victim? So was SHE responsible for being sexually assaulted? Is she saying her conduct led to her being sexually assaulted?


*Was this little girl responsible?

https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/crime_police/article_a11a0726-bce3-11e8-9f03-cb37da979bf6.html

A Gonzales man accused of raping a 5-year-old girl was arrested Wednesday, according to an East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office arrest report.

The girl told an adult that 69-year-old Byron Beverly Jr. inappropriately touched her at a Labor Day gathering on Sept. 3, according to the report. The adult reported it to law enforcement, which scheduled a forensic interview with the girl.

During that interview, the arrest report says, the girl detailed multiple incidents in which she said Beverly raped or inappropriately touched her.

She further told deputies that Beverly once showed her a pornographic video of a woman performing oral sex on a man, before asking the girl if they could do that, the report says. He later forced her to perform oral sex on him, according to the report.

Beverly, of 5440 Court Yard Drive, Gonzales, was booked in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on first-degree rape and sexual battery.