George Conway Feels Bad for What Happened to Monica Lewinsky

Within the new Impeachment: American Crime Story, George Conway is portrayed as a dashing younger lawyer.

“They discovered some man who form of seems like me,” the Trump critic tells co-host Molly Jong-Quick on the most recent episode of The New Irregular. “Or seems like the way in which I did within the Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties, earlier than I received outdated. I might nonetheless develop the hair lengthy.”

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Appears to be like apart, Molly says she does need to give Conway “a tough time” for his half in “enabling” the Clinton-Lewinsky coverage and the president’s subsequent impeachment. Does he remorse his position within the saga?

No, Conway says. He doesn’t remorse serving to take down former President Invoice Clinton, particularly within the post-MeToo period. However he does “really feel dangerous for what occurred to Monica.”

Molly says she’s been desirous about “the apology that we owe Monica. She was 21 years outdated in an internship with a person, a strong man with a historical past of sexual harassment and assault who had allegations towards him and who was additionally simply, like, a Casanova. After which, in some way, that is all her fault. The media made all of it her fault.”

Conway, for his half, says he had no thought “that it was going to be terrible for Monica. I believed it was gonna be terrible for Invoice… it was unimaginable to completely foresee how the entire thing would play out… Frankly, I believed she was going to be portrayed as a sufferer of this man.”

Molly nonetheless can’t imagine it was liberals—together with her personal mom—who stated “horrible, horrible, horrible issues. I don’t even perceive it.”

“It was essentially the most superb factor to me to look at all of those liberals try this,” Conway says. “As a result of if this had been a lady doing what she did with a Republican president, oh, that girl would have been the sufferer in a heartbeat.”

Additionally within the dialog, Conway discusses Rep. Madison Cawthorn’s threats and whether or not there’ll be a Jan. 6 repeat, in addition to what the brand new Texas abortion legislation portends for Roe v. Wade.

Later within the episode, Washington Submit reporter Craig Whitlock, creator of The Afghanistan Papers, talks about American officers’ doublespeak on Afghanistan over the past 20 years. He additionally shares with Molly his tackle how Michael Flynn went from revered, level-headed three-star common to QAnon crank.

Lastly, Georgia state Sen. Jen Jordan, who’s operating for lawyer common, talks about how gerrymandering is more likely to produce extra Marjorie Taylor Greenes and whether or not Texas’ abortion ban will encourage Republicans to duplicate it in Georgia.

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