This morning on MSNBC Live, anchor Stephanie Ruhle interviewed Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway and the interview quickly turned condescending. While defending Trump against the allegations and trying to pivot back to talk on WikiLeaks, Ruhle lectured Conway that she was setting a bad example for her children by defending Trump. “You’ve got to look at your kids when you go home at night,” Ruhle scolded. “I don’t let my kids watch Donald Trump in the fear that he will say to a woman in the audience, ‘You’re fat,’” she added.
The interview began with Ruhle hammering Conway to explain Trump’s comments on voter fraud, and comment on Marco Rubio telling Trump to not take advantage of the WikiLeaks e-mails. But Ruhle kept pivoting from Conway’s talk of WikiLeaks to hammer her on the new sexual assault accusations against Trump from a former People Magazine journalist.
After Conway called the allegations “unfounded,” contrasting it with the visible evidence against the Clinton campaign in the leaked e-mails, Conway scoffed. “How is that unfounded?” she asked, explaining that Trump was just acting out what he had said on tape eleven years ago. Ruhle then tried to shame Conway as a bad mother for defending him amidst the vulgar tape comments and sexual assault allegation.
“You’re a mother. You’re a woman. Are you more offended by the phrase ‘average Americans’ or ‘grabbing a woman’s genitals’?” the MSNBC host asked. When Conway dismissed the silly question by answering that obviously she was more offended by Trump’s comments, but that wasn’t the point, Ruhle continued hammering:
“When there are six people corroborating the People Magazine story, you still say her word against his?” Before Conway could answer, Ruhle interrupted with, “You’ve got to look at your kids when you go home at night.”
“Stephanie, that’s not fair,” Conway called her out. But Ruhle was just getting started on her righteous crusade on protecting the children from what Donald Trump says on television (as if they couldn’t find much, much worse on television.)
RUHLE: I’m not going to let my kids watch the debate tonight. I don’t let my kids watch Donald Trump in the fear that he will say to a woman in the audience, ‘You’re fat,’ in fear, that he’ll make fun of someone with special needs. I don’t ever want my kids to say that.
“But you’ll let them watch Hillary Clinton,” Conway spoke up.
H/T: Free Beacon
