Guilty beyond a reasonable doubt

George Conway: Trump 'guilty beyond a reasonable doubt' of being unfit for office

By CAITLIN OPRYSKO

Conservative attorney George Conway wrote in the Washington Post Tuesday that while President Donald Trump may have been exonerated on allegations that his campaign colluded with Russia, he is "guilty beyond a reasonable doubt" of being unfit for office.

Conway, whose wife Kellyanne Conway is a senior aide to the president and one of his top cable news defenders, wrote in an op-ed that special counsel Robert Mueller's conclusion that the president's 2016 campaign did not collude with the Kremlin should not be taken as a vindication writ large of the Trump administration.

"Americans should expect far more from a president than merely that he not be provably a criminal," George Conway wrote. "They should expect a president to comport himself in accordance with the high duties of his office."

While the longtime conservative attorney wrote that “very little” was surprising about Mueller’s conclusions — the scope of which have only been outlined in a four-page summary from Attorney General William Barr — he argued that the investigation in and of itself was a “momentous event.”

George Conway also accused the president of putting his personal interests above the interests of the country and outlined a number of supposedly damning charges against him, including his tendency to stretch the truth.

Trump “lied, to the point that his own lawyers wouldn’t dare let him speak to Mueller, lest he commit a crime,” Conway noted, adding that he appeared “more concerned about touting his supposedly historic election victory than confronting an attack on our democracy by a hostile foreign power.”

“If the charge were unfitness for office,” he concluded, “the verdict would already be in: guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.”

George Conway’s disagreements with his wife about Trump have been well documented and spilled into the national spotlight last week when his Twitter posts accusing the president of having a mental disorder caught Trump’s eye, prompting the president to call the attorney, once under consideration for a top legal position within the administration, a “husband from hell.”

Kellyanne Conway has insisted the spat between her husband and her boss doesn’t bother her, and last week even defended Trump after his public ranting about George.