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Kellyanne Conway Plays
The Mommy Card

By Vivia Chen

LKellyanne Conway, former senior adviser to President Donald Trump/photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM
et me say I’m bummed that Kellyanne Conway tional abuse. Oh, and she’s seeking pro bono help
didn’t say a thing about why she’s leaving her for emancipation from her parents.
job at the White House during her swan song Alas, la telenovela Conway is coming to an
speech at the Republican National Convention. I end. Just days before the Republican convention,
was hoping that she’d talk at least a teensy bit about Kellyanne tweeted, “It will be less drama, more
the challenges of being a super career woman and mama.” She added: “Our four children are teens
mom—you know, all that balance stuff that young and ‘tweens starting a new academic year, in mid-
lawyers love to yak about—so that we can all relate. dle school and high school, remotely from home
We know Kellyanne has been having a hellish for at least a few months. As millions of parents
time on the home front. Almost from the start nationwide know, kids ‘doing school from home’
of her job as senior White House counsel, her requires a level of attention and vigilance that is as
husband George has been unrelentingly criticiz- unusual as these times.”
ing her thin-skinned boss Donald Trump. Then, Where to unpack? First, did Conway admit that
right smack in the middle of the pandemic, Kel- her kids aren’t marching off to school? I hope some-
lyanne’s 15-year-old daughter Claudia turned on body breaks that news gently to Trump because he’s
her. Not only is Claudia a vocal anti-Trumpster, quite adamant that schools open this fall.
but she’s accused her mom of physical and emo-
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