During his marriage to senior Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, attorney George Conway made no secret of his complete and utter disdain for his wife’s boss. (He called the Trump administration “a shit show in a dumpster fire”; suggested Donald Trump was suffering from narcissistic personality disorder; wrote a nearly 11,500-word essay explaining why the then president was unfit for office; and literally cofounded an organization whose stated mission is to “protect the American republic from Donald Trump and those who identify…as MAGA supporters.”) Fast-forward to now, and it appears George’s feelings about the former guy have not changed since he and Kellyanne announced their decision to divorce.
Axios reported Wednesday that George donated a whopping $929,600, the maximum legal amount, to the Biden Victory Fund. News of George’s nearly $1 million donation comes just three weeks before he is scheduled to headline a fundraiser for Joe Biden’s reelection campaign. Asked about cutting the very large check, the lawyer told CNN: “This election is about nothing less than whether we’ll continue to live in a democracy under the rule of law. That’s priceless, so I consider my contribution to be a bargain.”
Of course, if you’ve taken a quick gander at George’s recent social media musings, his contribution should come as no great surprise: Recently, he shared a story in which a top psychologist predicted Trump would be “cognitively incapacitated” within the next four years; proposed that contaminated waste sites be named after the former president; and reposted a tweet in which a legal scholar likened Trump to Adolf Hitler.
The George-Kellyanne union—with the latter playing a major role in both Trump’s 2016 campaign and administration and the former publicly loathing the guy—was one of the most head-scratching in Washington. Among the most bizarre moments was the time Kellyanne tried to trash-talk George as an anonymous source in the pages of one Washington Post. (She also used her memoir to criticize him for speaking out against Trump, claiming he was “cheating by tweeting.”)
Last month Axios reported that the former Trump adviser “is considering a return to Trumpworld.”
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