Kellyanne Conway#Personal life

Kellyanne Elizabeth Fitzpatrick was born on January 20, 1967, in Camden, New Jersey, to Diane (née DiNatale) and John Fitzpatrick, and grew up in the nearby Atco section of Waterford Township, New Jersey.{{cite news|url = https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/politics/20161211__Blessed_to_be_a_Hammontonian__-_Kellyanne_Conway_comes_home.html|title = 'Blessed to be a Hammontonian' - Kellyanne Conway comes home|last = McCabe|first = Caitlin|date = December 11, 2016|accessdate = June 9, 2024|newspaper = The Philadelphia Inquirer|url-access = limited}}{{cite news |last1=Kopan |first1=Tal |title=Trump campaign manager: Obama was born in US |url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/09/politics/kellyanne-conway-donald-trump-birtherism/index.html |work=CNN |date=September 9, 2016|access-date=September 10, 2016|archive-date=October 19, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019071625/http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/09/politics/kellyanne-conway-donald-trump-birtherism/index.html|url-status=live}} Conway's father had German, English, and Irish ancestry, while her mother is of Italian descent;{{cite web |url=https://gen.medium.com/kellyanne-conways-curiously-relevant-family-history-88c0f86876de |title=Kellyanne Conway's Curiously Relevant Family History |website=medium.com |first=Megan |last=Smolenyak |date=July 21, 2019 |access-date=August 18, 2020 |archive-date=May 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200522212016/https://gen.medium.com/kellyanne-conways-curiously-relevant-family-history-88c0f86876de |url-status=live}} John Fitzpatrick owned a small trucking company, and Diane worked at a bank. Conway's parents divorced when she was three,{{cite web |title=Kellyanne Conway's New Jersey roots involve grandfather's alleged mob ties |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/kellyanne-conway-n-roots-involve-grandpa-alleged-mob-ties-article-1.3005919 |website=The New York Daily News|date=March 22, 2017 |access-date=October 3, 2017|archive-date=October 4, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171004034631/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/kellyanne-conway-n-roots-involve-grandpa-alleged-mob-ties-article-1.3005919|url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://www.phillyvoice.com/kellyanne-conways-life-story-omits-her-grandfather-an-alleged-mob-associate/ |title=Kellyanne Conway's life story omits her grandfather, an alleged mob associate |last1=Shelly |first1=Kevin |date=March 22, 2017 |publisher=PhillyVoice.com |access-date=May 17, 2018 |archive-date=May 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180512003324/http://www.phillyvoice.com/kellyanne-conways-life-story-omits-her-grandfather-an-alleged-mob-associate/ |url-status=live}} and she was raised by her mother, grandmother, and two unmarried aunts in Atco. She graduated from St. Joseph High School in 1985 as class valedictorian in a high school with 140 students, total. In high school, she also sang in the choir, played field hockey, worked on floats for parades, and was a cheerleader.{{Cite news |url=http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a8648002/kellyanne-conway-interview-career/ |title=Kellyanne Conway When the Cameras Aren't Rolling |date=January 31, 2017 |work=Cosmopolitan|access-date=March 27, 2017 |language=en|archive-date=March 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210315094252/https://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a8648002/kellyanne-conway-interview-career/|url-status=live}} A 1992 New Jersey Organized Crime Commission report identified Conway's grandfather, Jimmy "The Brute" DiNatale, as a mob associate of the Philadelphia crime family; DiNatale did not reside with Conway's grandmother, Conway, and the rest of her family. Conway's cousin, Mark DeMarco, has stated that while in high school, Conway ordered members of the football team to stop bullying him; according to DeMarco, the bullying stopped.{{Cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/18/kellyanne-conway-paradox/99315516/ |title=Cousin: 'Kellyanne wasn't afraid of anything or anyone' |work=USA Today|access-date=March 27, 2017 |language=en|archive-date=August 9, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809213957/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/18/kellyanne-conway-paradox/99315516/|url-status=live}} Her family is Catholic.{{cite news |last1=Brunetti |first1=Michelle |title=Trump strategist Kellyanne Conway has deep roots in South Jersey |url=http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/trump-strategist-kellyanne-conway-has-deep-roots-in-south-jersey/article_59853be4-6e5a-5e9c-bdf7-cfc18fb1647e.html |work=Press of Atlantic City |date=October 17, 2016 |quote=Marie DiNatale and grandmother Antoinette DiNatale in a brick rancher just off the White Horse Pike in the working-class Atco section of Waterford Township in Camden County. She attended St. Joseph's High School, just 10 miles east down the pike in Hammonton.|access-date=November 6, 2016|archive-date=February 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170208162323/http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/trump-strategist-kellyanne-conway-has-deep-roots-in-south-jersey/article_59853be4-6e5a-5e9c-bdf7-cfc18fb1647e.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news |last1=Johnson |first1=Brent |title=Meet the N.J. native who's running Donald Trump's campaign |url=http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/09/meet_the_nj_native_whos_running_donald_trumps_camp.html |work=NJ.com |date=September 26, 2016|access-date=September 28, 2016|archive-date=October 24, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161024151625/http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/09/meet_the_nj_native_whos_running_donald_trumps_camp.html|url-status=live}}

Conway credits her experience working for eight summers on a blueberry farm in Hammonton, New Jersey, for teaching her a strong work ethic. "The faster you went, the more money you'd make," she said. At age 16, she won the New Jersey Blueberry Princess pageant. At age 20, she won the World Champion Blueberry Packing competition. "Everything I learned about life and business started on that farm," she said in September 2016.

Conway attended Trinity College, Washington, D.C., now Trinity Washington University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa andgraduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in political science.{{cite news |last1=Pascaline |first1=Mary |title=Who Is Kellyanne Conway? Trump Aide Turns Down White House Press Secretary Post |url=http://www.ibtimes.com/who-kellyanne-conway-trump-aide-turns-down-white-house-press-secretary-post-2459249|access-date=February 4, 2017 |work=International Business Times |date=December 13, 2016|archive-date=February 4, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170204171006/http://www.ibtimes.com/who-kellyanne-conway-trump-aide-turns-down-white-house-press-secretary-post-2459249|url-status=live}} In 1992, she earned a Juris Doctor with honors from the George Washington University Law School in 1992.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/17/kellyanne-conways-political-machinations |title=Kellyanne Conway's Political Machinations |last=Osnos |first=Evan |date=October 17, 2016 |magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=December 5, 2016|archive-date=March 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308151530/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/17/kellyanne-conways-political-machinations|url-status=live}}

After graduation, she served as a judicial clerk for Judge Richard A. Levie*{{cite web |title=Richard A. Levie |url=https://ballotpedia.org/Richard_A._Levie |website=Ballotpedia |access-date=May 24, 2022 |language=en |archive-date=November 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181109101036/https://ballotpedia.org/Richard_A._Levie |url-status=live}}

• {{cite news |last1=LeDuc |first1=Daniel |title=Political Heavyweights Pleading Lobbyist's Case |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/daily/sept99/bereano22.htm |access-date=May 24, 2022 |newspaper=Washington Post |date=September 22, 1999 |archive-date=May 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220526142046/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/daily/sept99/bereano22.htm |url-status=live}} of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.{{cite web |title=Kellyanne Conway |url=https://ballotpedia.org/Kellyanne_Conway |website=Ballotpedia |access-date=May 24, 2022 |language=en |archive-date=March 27, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170327131635/https://ballotpedia.org/Kellyanne_Conway |url-status=live}}{{cite web |title=Bios – Kellyanne Fitzpatrick |url=https://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/analysis/bios/cnn/fitzpatrick.shtml |website=AllPolitics |publisher=CNN |access-date=May 24, 2022 |date=1996 |archive-date=May 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220524133907/https://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/analysis/bios/cnn/fitzpatrick.shtml |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://pollingcompany.com/about/kellyanne/ |title=Kellyanne Conway biography |publisher=pollingcompany.com |author=The Polling Company |date=2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160430223824/http://pollingcompany.com/about/kellyanne/ |archive-date=April 30, 2016 |url-status=unfit}}

Conway entered the polling business when she was in law school, working as a research assistant for Wirthlin Group, a Republican polling firm. After graduating, she initially considered working for a law firm, but chose to work for Luntz Research Companies instead.{{Cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/kellyannes-alternative-universe/517821/ |title=Kellyanne's Alternative Universe |last=Ball |first=Molly |date=April 2017 |website=The Atlantic|access-date=March 15, 2017|archive-date=March 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170315014137/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/kellyannes-alternative-universe/517821/|url-status=live}} As a student at Trinity College, she met and became friends with Frank Luntz, the firm's founder, on a year abroad at Oxford University.

In 1995, she founded her own firm, the Polling Company, which consulted on consumer trends, including trends regarding women. Conway's clients included Vaseline, American Express, and Hasbro. She also provided political consulting service to U.S. Representative Jack Kemp, U.S. Senator Fred Thompson,{{better source needed|date=October 2016|reason=for this type of information it's better to get it from a secondary source, rather than the bio placed on her firm's website}} Vice President Dan Quayle,{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/28/us/quayle-bids-farewell-presidential-race-effectively-era-his-career.html |title=Quayle Bids Farewell to the Presidential Race, and, Effectively, an Era of His Career |last=Purdum, Todd S. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=September 28, 1999 |access-date=January 18, 2016 |archive-date=June 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628045639/https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/28/us/quayle-bids-farewell-presidential-race-effectively-era-his-career.html |url-status=live}} Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, and U.S. Representative (later Vice President) Mike Pence.{{cite news |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/17/kellyanne-conways-political-machinations |title=KellyAnne Conway's Political Machinations: Can the first woman to run a Republican Presidential campaign reform Donald Trump? |author=Lizza, Ryan |magazine=The New Yorker |date=October 17, 2016 | access-date=October 26, 2016 | archive-date=March 8, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308151530/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/17/kellyanne-conways-political-machinations | url-status=live}} She worked as the senior advisor to Gingrich during his unsuccessful 2012 United States presidential election campaign.{{cite news |date=January 11, 2012 |url=http://foxnewsinsider.com/2012/01/11/gingrich-the-next-10-days-are-the-most-important-in-modern-politics/ |title=Gingrich: "the next 10 days are the most important" |work=Fox News Insider |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119155437/http://foxnewsinsider.com/2012/01/11/gingrich-the-next-10-days-are-the-most-important-in-modern-politics/ |access-date=September 13, 2015 |archive-date=January 19, 2012 |url-status=dead}} Later, in 2012, she represented U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin.{{cite news |last=Kilgore |first=Ed |date=August 17, 2016 |url=https://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/08/meet-kellyanne-conway-trumps-new-campaign-manager.html |title=Meet Kellyanne Conway – Trump's New Campaign Manager |work=New York Magazine |access-date=August 18, 2016 |archive-date=August 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820170146/http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/08/meet-kellyanne-conway-trumps-new-campaign-manager.html |url-status=live}} She also directed demographic and attitudinal survey projects for trade associations and private companies, including American Express, ABC News, Major League Baseball, and Ladies Home Journal. Her firm also included WomanTrend, a research and consulting division.

In the 1990s, along with conservative female commentators Laura Ingraham, Barbara Olson, and Ann Coulter, she helped turn punditry into "stylish stardom" in both Washington, D.C. and cable television.{{cite web |url=https://www.courant.com/1999/03/27/woman-of-the-right/ |title=Woman Of The Right|date=March 27, 1999 |access-date=January 23, 2017|archive-date=December 25, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161225083452/http://articles.courant.com/1999-03-27/features/9903270533_1_laura-ingraham-punditry-cable-television|url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/coulter101698.htm |website=Washingtonpost.com |title=The Blonde Flinging Bombshells at Bill Clinton |first=Howard |last=Kurtz |date=October 16, 1998|access-date=January 23, 2017|archive-date=April 11, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130411100354/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/coulter101698.htm|url-status=live}} and was credited with setting forth Washington, D.C.'s "sexual awakening."{{Cite web |url=https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/politics/national/features/2165/index1.html |title=Washington's Sexual Awakening |website=NYMag.com|date=February 9, 1998 |access-date=December 6, 2017|archive-date=June 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210627234521/https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/politics/national/features/2165/index1.html|url-status=live}} In a review of the era in the capital, Conway (then known as Fitzpatrick) said that her "broad mind and small waist have not switched places".{{cite magazine |url=https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/politics/national/features/2165/ |title=Washington's Sexual Awakening |magazine=New York |first=Eric |last=Konigsberg |date=February 9, 1998|access-date=January 23, 2017|archive-date=September 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210914213919/https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/politics/national/features/2165/|url-status=live}} Conway, Ingraham, and Coulter were sometimes called "pundettes",Farhi, Paul, [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-may-27-ca-34491-story.html "The Voice of Experience? Um, Not Exactly"], Los Angeles Times, May 27, 2000. and appeared on Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect.

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Conway appeared as a commentator on polling and politics for ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, NY1, Fox News, and various radio programs. In 2004, The Washington Post recognized her with its "Crystal Ball" award for accurately predicting the outcome of that year's election.{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/to-the-contrary/panelists/41/conway|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131123134932/http://www.pbs.org/to-the-contrary/panelists/41/conway|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 23, 2013 |title=To The Contrary Panelists – To The Contrary |website=PBS |date=November 23, 2013|access-date=January 23, 2017}}

In 2016, Conway endorsed Ted Cruz's presidential candidacy, even though she became acquainted with Donald Trump when living in Trump World Tower years earlier, from 2001 to 2008, and serving on its condo board. She chaired a pro-Cruz political action committee, Keep the Promise I, which was almost entirely funded by businessman Robert Mercer.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/01/trump-hires-ex-cruz-super-pac-strategist-kellyanne-conway/ "Trump hires ex-Cruz super PAC strategist Kellyanne Conway," by Sean Sullivan, Washington Post, July 1, 2016] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201214170821/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/01/trump-hires-ex-cruz-super-pac-strategist-kellyanne-conway/ |date=December 14, 2020 }}, retrieved January 12, 2017[http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/23/politics/donald-trump-super-pac-fundraising/ "Yet another Donald Trump super PAC launches, this one with a link to Ted Cruz," by Theodore Schleifer, CNN, June 23, 2016] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211106214041/https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/23/politics/donald-trump-super-pac-fundraising/ |date=November 6, 2021 }}, retrieved January 12, 2017. Conway's organization criticized Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as "extreme" and "not a conservative". On January 25, 2016, Conway criticized Trump as "a man who seems to be offending his way to the nomination."[http://www.rollcall.com/news/The-Only-Republicans-Man-Enough-to-Stop-Trump-Are-Women-245582-1.html "The only Republicans man enough to stop Trump are women," by Patricia Murphy, Roll Call, January 25, 2016] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180615155924/https://www.rollcall.com/news/The-Only-Republicans-Man-Enough-to-Stop-Trump-Are-Women-245582-1.html |date=June 15, 2018 }}, retrieved November 28, 2016. On January 26, Conway criticized Trump's use of eminent domain, saying, "Donald Trump has literally bulldozed over the little guy to get his way."[https://thehill.com/homenews/news/267059-republican-rivals-launch-effort-to-villainize-donald-trump/ "Republican rivals launch effort to villainize Donald Trump,"] The Hill, January 26, 2016. Retrieved November 28, 2016.

In mid-June 2016, Cruz suspended his campaign and Conway left.{{Cite news |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-06-22/new-super-pac-launches-for-donors-who-won-t-back-trump-but-loathe-clinton |title=New Super-PAC Launches for Donors Who Won't Back Trump But Loathe Clinton |last1=Green |first1=Joshua |date=June 22, 2016 |last2=Mider |first2=Zachary |newspaper=Bloomberg.com|access-date=January 16, 2017|archive-date=September 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929165312/https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-06-22/new-super-pac-launches-for-donors-who-won-t-back-trump-but-loathe-clinton|url-status=live}}

On July 1, 2016, Trump announced that he had hired Conway for a senior advisory position on his presidential campaign.{{cite web |url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-kevin-kellems-colorado-000000679.html |title=Departures come as steady a campaign operation that has been shaken by internal drama |last=Bailey |first=Holly |date=July 1, 2016 |website=Yahoo Politics |access-date=July 1, 2016 |archive-date=July 1, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160701220341/https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-kevin-kellems-colorado-000000679.html |url-status=live}} Conway was expected to advise Trump on how to better appeal to female voters. On August 19, following the resignation of Paul Manafort, Trump named Conway the campaign's third campaign manager.{{cite web |url=http://nation.foxnews.com/2016/08/17/kellyanne-conway-becomes-first-woman-run-gop-presidential-campaign-nets-yawn |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818185300/http://nation.foxnews.com/2016/08/17/kellyanne-conway-becomes-first-woman-run-gop-presidential-campaign-nets-yawn |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 18, 2016 |title=Kellyanne Conway Becomes First Woman to Run GOP Presidential Campaign; Nets Yawn |work=Fox News |date=August 17, 2016 |access-date=August 19, 2016}} She served in this capacity for 10 weeks, through the November 8 general election, and was the first woman to successfully run an American presidential campaign,{{cite news |url=https://theweek.com/speedreads/660809/kellyanne-conway-becomes-first-woman-successfully-run-presidential-campaign |title=Kellyanne Conway becomes first woman to successfully run a presidential campaign |first=Jeva |last=Lange |date=November 9, 2016 |newspaper=The Week |location=New York City |access-date=November 9, 2016 |quote=Hillary Clinton may not have been elected president, but other glass ceilings were shattered on Election Day nonetheless. One such historic moment came from Trump's own camp, where Kellyanne Conway became the first woman to successfully run a presidential campaign. |archive-date=September 25, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180925115400/http://theweek.com/speedreads/660809/kellyanne-conway-becomes-first-woman-successfully-run-presidential-campaign |url-status=live}} and the first woman to run a Republican general election presidential campaign. Saturday Night Live started satirizing her in October 2016, portrayed by Kate McKinnon.{{cite web |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/01/kellyanne-conway-alternative-facts-snl-parody-chicago-kate-mckinnon |title=S.N.L. Finally Takes True Aim at the Real Kellyanne Conway |first=Joanna |last=Robinson |website=Vanity Fair |date=January 22, 2017|access-date=January 23, 2017|archive-date=October 24, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024181914/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/01/kellyanne-conway-alternative-facts-snl-parody-chicago-kate-mckinnon|url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kellyanne-conway-chicago-snl_us_5884c94de4b070d8cad3228a |title='SNL' Uses 'Chicago'-Style Skit To Explain Why Kellyanne Conway Joined Trump's Campaign |work=The Huffington Post |date=January 22, 2017|access-date=January 23, 2017 |author=Brucculieri, Julia|archive-date=February 24, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170224132927/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kellyanne-conway-chicago-snl_us_5884c94de4b070d8cad3228a|url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://www.snlarchives.net/Impressions/?3698 |title=SNL Archives – Impressions – Kellyanne Conway|access-date=January 23, 2017|archive-date=June 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624201959/http://www.snlarchives.net/Impressions/?3698|url-status=live}} In a January 2017 interview, Conway acknowledged the SNL parody by noting that, "Kate McKinnon clearly sees the road to the future runs through me and not Hillary."{{Cite news |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/a-conversation-kellyanne-conway-im-face-trumps-movement-968579 |title=A Conversation With Kellyanne Conway: "I'm the Face of Trump's Movement" |work=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=December 8, 2017 |language=en|archive-date=March 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310125826/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/a-conversation-kellyanne-conway-im-face-trumps-movement-968579|url-status=live}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/01/kellyanne-conway-kate-mckinnon-impression-snl |title=Kellyanne Conway Has One Complaint About Kate McKinnon's Saturday Night Live Impression |last=Busis |first=Hillary |work=HWD|access-date=December 8, 2017 |language=en|archive-date=February 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210228061410/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/01/kellyanne-conway-kate-mckinnon-impression-snl|url-status=live}}

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On November 10, 2016, Conway publicly tweeted that Trump had offered her a White House job.{{cite tweet |number=796757702995308548 |user=KellyannePolls |title=False. Could it be those "sources" want the WH job I've been offered? |date=November 10, 2016}} "I can have any job I want", she said on November 28.CNBC Staff, [https://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/28/trump-furious-over-kellyanne-conway-comments-on-sunday-shows-about-romney-sources.html "Trump furious over Kellyanne Conway comments on Sunday shows about Romney: Sources," CNBC, November 28, 2016] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628233124/https://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/28/trump-furious-over-kellyanne-conway-comments-on-sunday-shows-about-romney-sources.html |date=June 28, 2021 }}, Retrieved November 30, 2016. On November 24, Conway tweeted that she was "Receiving deluge of social media & private comms re: Romney. Some Trump loyalists warn against Romney as sec of state" with a link to an article on Trump loyalists' discontent for the 2012 nominee. Conway told CNN she was only tweeting what she has shared with President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence in private.{{Cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/24/politics/kellyanne-conway-romney-tweets/index.html |title=Conway tweets about Trump base anger over Romney |last=LoBionco |first=Tom |date=November 24, 2016 |publisher=CNN|access-date=November 24, 2016|archive-date=June 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628135555/https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/24/politics/kellyanne-conway-romney-tweets/index.html|url-status=live}}

On November 28, two top sources at the Trump transition team told media outlets that Trump "was furious" at Conway for media comments she made on Trump administration cabinet appointments.[https://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/28/trump-furious-over-kellyanne-conway-comments-on-sunday-shows-about-romney-sources.html "Trump furious over Kellyanne Conway comments on Sunday shows," CNBC, November 28, 2016] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628233124/https://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/28/trump-furious-over-kellyanne-conway-comments-on-sunday-shows-about-romney-sources.html |date=June 28, 2021 }}, Retrieved November 28, 2016. The following day, however, Trump released a written statement stating that the campaign sources were wrong and that he had expressed disappointment at her critical comments on Romney.[https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/28/us/politics/kellyanne-conway-donald-trump.html "Challenging the Boss in Public? For Kellyanne Conway, It's Part of the Job," The New York Times, November 29, 2016] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628035017/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/28/us/politics/kellyanne-conway-donald-trump.html |date=June 28, 2021 }}, retrieved November 29, 2016 CNBC reported on November 28 that senior officials in the Trump transition "have reportedly been growing frustrated by Conway's failure to become a team player."

On December 1, Conway appeared with senior aides of the Trump campaign at Harvard Kennedy School for a forum on the 2016 presidential race; the quadrennial post-presidential election forum has been held at the School of Government since 1972. Sitting across from Conway were senior Clinton campaign aides, including Clinton's campaign manager Robby Mook. As tempers began to flare, the forum escalated into a "shouting match"; during one exchange, Clinton senior strategist Joel Benenson said "The fact of the matter is that more Americans voted for Hillary Clinton than for Donald Trump." Conway replied to Benenson while looking at the Trump aides: "Hey, guys, we won. You don't have to respond. He was the better candidate. That's why he won."{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/shouting-match-erupts-between-clinton-and-trump-aides/2016/12/01/7ac4398e-b7ea-11e6-b8df-600bd9d38a02_story.html |title=Shouting match erupts between Clinton and Trump aides |last=Tumulty |first=Karen |date=December 1, 2016 |newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=December 2, 2016|archive-date=September 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210924151747/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/shouting-match-erupts-between-clinton-and-trump-aides/2016/12/01/7ac4398e-b7ea-11e6-b8df-600bd9d38a02_story.html|url-status=live}}

In early December, Conway claimed that Hillary Clinton supporters were making death threats against her.{{Cite news |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/kellyanne-conway-death-threats-fueled-pro-clinton-rhetoric/story?id=44083275 |title=Kellyanne Conway: I'm Getting Death Threats Fueled by Pro-Clinton Rhetoric |last=Caplan |first=David |date=December 9, 2016 |publisher=ABC News|access-date=December 9, 2016|archive-date=July 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210705043249/https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/kellyanne-conway-death-threats-fueled-pro-clinton-rhetoric/story?id=44083275|url-status=live}} Consequently, Trump assigned Secret Service to protect her.{{Cite news |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/kellyanne-conway-secret-service-protection-234092 |title=Conway: I have Secret Service protection because of the media |work=Politico|access-date=December 6, 2017|archive-date=June 29, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210629112313/https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/kellyanne-conway-secret-service-protection-234092|url-status=dead}}{{Cite news |url=http://fortune.com/2017/01/24/kellyanne-conway-secret-service/ |title=Kellyanne Conway Says She Has Secret Service Protection Because of the Media |work=Fortune|access-date=December 6, 2017 |language=en|archive-date=July 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210710123143/https://fortune.com/2017/01/24/kellyanne-conway-secret-service/|url-status=live}}{{Cite news |url=https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/315795-kellyanne-conway-ive-gotten-mail-with-white-substances-in-it/ |title=Kellyanne Conway gets Secret Service protection |last=Greenwood |first=Max |date=January 23, 2017 |work=TheHill|access-date=December 6, 2017|archive-date=June 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628180853/https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/315795-kellyanne-conway-ive-gotten-mail-with-white-substances-in-it|url-status=live}} Conway gave up her Secret Service protection in September 2017 due to "reduction in threats."{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/us/politics/donald-trump-jr-secret-service.html |title=Donald Trump Jr. Gives Up Secret Service Protection, Seeking Privacy |last1=Fandos |first1=Nicholas |date=September 18, 2017 |work=The New York Times|access-date=December 6, 2017 |last2=Haberman |first2=Maggie |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331|archive-date=September 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210903061232/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/us/politics/donald-trump-jr-secret-service.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite news |url=http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-jr-and-kellyanne-conway-lose-secret-service-protection-667489 |title=Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., ditches Secret Service detail to have more privacy |date=September 19, 2017 |work=Newsweek|access-date=December 6, 2017 |language=en|archive-date=June 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628095444/https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-jr-and-kellyanne-conway-lose-secret-service-protection-667489|url-status=live}}{{Cite news |url=http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/09/kellyanne_conway_no_longer_protected_by_secret_ser.html |title=Kellyanne Conway no longer protected by Secret Service, report says |work=NJ.com|access-date=December 6, 2017 |language=en-US|archive-date=October 6, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006072556/https://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/09/kellyanne_conway_no_longer_protected_by_secret_ser.html|url-status=live}}

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According to eyewitnesses, Conway allegedly punched a tuxedo-clad man at an exclusive inauguration ball just hours after Trump was sworn in as president.{{Cite web |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2017/01/24/report-kellyanne-conway-punched-man-at-ball-inauguration |title=Witnesses: Kellyanne Conway Punched Man at Inaugural Ball |date=January 24, 2017 |website=The Daily Beast|access-date=December 6, 2017|archive-date=November 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107233827/https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-1&features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1457085875209359368&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedailybeast.com%2Fbraun-series-7-razor-review&sessionId=37a6e887101f374aa603546dfa009a36509037d4&siteScreenName=thedailybeast&theme=light&widgetsVersion=f001879%3A1634581029404&width=550px|url-status=live}}{{Cite news |url=http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/01/trump_adviser_kellyanne_conway_threw_mean_punches.html |title=Kellyanne Conway threw 'mean punches' at Trump inaugural ball, witness says |work=NJ.com|access-date=December 6, 2017 |language=en-US|archive-date=October 6, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006093833/https://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/01/trump_adviser_kellyanne_conway_threw_mean_punches.html|url-status=live}} In an attempt to break up a scuffle, Conway stepped between two men, but they would not break up the fight, and Conway apparently punched one of them in the face with closed fists at least three times.{{Cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kellyanne-conway-punch-man-donald-trump-us-presidential-inauguration-ball-witness-president-adviser-a7543061.html |title=Kellyanne Conway 'punched a man at Trump's inauguration ball' |date=January 24, 2017 |work=The Independent|access-date=December 6, 2017 |language=en-GB|archive-date=March 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180313200330/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kellyanne-conway-punch-man-donald-trump-us-presidential-inauguration-ball-witness-president-adviser-a7543061.html|url-status=live}}

It was not immediately clear what triggered the fistfight and a Trump spokeswoman did not return a request for comment.{{Cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/kellyanne-conway-allegedly-punched-man-inauguration-ball-article-1.2953968 |title=Kellyanne Conway allegedly punched man at inaugural ball |work=NY Daily News|access-date=December 6, 2017 |language=en|archive-date=June 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628204554/https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/kellyanne-conway-allegedly-punched-man-inauguration-ball-article-1.2953968|url-status=live}}

Conway was criticized as a spin doctor by media.{{Cite news |url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/annehelenpetersen/the-softening-of-kellyanne-conway |title=The Softening Of Kellyanne Conway |work=BuzzFeed|access-date=December 6, 2017 |language=en|archive-date=May 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180525194756/https://www.buzzfeed.com/annehelenpetersen/the-softening-of-kellyanne-conway|url-status=live}} She was lauded as a "Trump whisperer." In February 2017, Morning Joe, an MSNBC show, publicly banned Conway from appearing on the show.{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/06/30/the-strange-saga-of-trump-and-morning-joe-now-involves-the-national-enquirer/ |title=Analysis {{!}} The strange saga of Trump and 'Morning Joe' now involves the National Enquirer|last=Borchers|first=Callum|date=June 30, 2017|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=December 6, 2017|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286|archive-date=December 6, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171206215235/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/06/30/the-strange-saga-of-trump-and-morning-joe-now-involves-the-national-enquirer/|url-status=live}}

During a Meet the Press interview two days after Trump's presidential inauguration, Conway used the phrase "alternative facts" to defend statements made by White House press secretary Sean Spicer regarding the inauguration's crowd size.{{cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/the-pointless-needless-lies-of-the-trump-administration/514061/ |title='Alternative Facts': The Needless Lies of the Trump Administration |magazine=The Atlantic |date=January 22, 2017 |access-date=January 22, 2017 |last=Graham |first=David |archive-date=April 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210402073714/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/the-pointless-needless-lies-of-the-trump-administration/514061/ |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/22/donald-trump-kellyanne-conway-inauguration-alternative-facts |title=Trump presidency begins with defense of false 'alternative facts' |newspaper=The Guardian |date=January 22, 2017 |access-date=January 22, 2017 |last=Swaine |first=Jon |archive-date=February 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210206145448/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/22/donald-trump-kellyanne-conway-inauguration-alternative-facts |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/wh-spokesman-gave-alternative-facts-inauguration-crowd-n710466 |title=Kellyanne Conway: WH Spokesman Gave 'Alternative Facts' on Inauguration Crowd |publisher=NBC News |date=January 22, 2017 |access-date=January 22, 2017 |last=Jaffe |first=Alexandra |archive-date=January 22, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170122161236/http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/wh-spokesman-gave-alternative-facts-inauguration-crowd-n710466 |url-status=live}} Conway's phrase reminded some of "Newspeak", an obfuscatory language style that is a key element of the society portrayed in George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984.{{cite news |last=de Freytas-Tamura |first=Kimiko |title=George Orwell's '1984' Is Suddenly a Best-Seller |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/books/1984-george-orwell-donald-trump.html |date=January 25, 2017 |work=New York Times |access-date=January 25, 2017 |archive-date=February 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210217135539/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/books/1984-george-orwell-donald-trump.html |url-status=live}} Soon after Conway's interview, sales of the book had increased by 9,500%, which The New York Times and others attributed to Conway's use of the phrase, making it the number-one bestseller on Amazon.com.* {{cite news |last=de Freytas-Tamura |first=Kimiko |title=George Orwell's '1984' Is Suddenly a Best-Seller |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/books/1984-george-orwell-donald-trump.html |date=January 25, 2017 |work=New York Times |access-date=January 26, 2017 |archive-date=February 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210217135539/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/books/1984-george-orwell-donald-trump.html |url-status=live}}

• {{cite web |url=https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/315808-sales-of-george-orwells-1984-jump-after-conways-alternative/ |title=Sales of '1984' surge after Conway talks 'alternative facts' |website=The Hill |date=January 24, 2017 | access-date=January 24, 2017 |last=Calfas |first=Jennifer | archive-date=November 11, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111192324/http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/315808-sales-of-george-orwells-1984-jump-after-conways-alternative | url-status=live}}
• {{cite web |url=http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article128367114.html |title=George Orwell's '1984' surges in sales after 'alternative facts' comment |work=The Kansas City Star |date=January 24, 2017 | access-date=January 24, 2017 |last=Koh |first=Elizabeth | archive-date=September 24, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924014522/https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article128367114.html | url-status=live}}
• {{cite news |last=Kakutani |first=Michiko |title=Why '1984' Is a 2017 Must-Read |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/books/why-1984-is-a-2017-must-read.html |date=January 26, 2017 |work=New York Times |access-date=January 26, 2017 |archive-date=March 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210314075346/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/books/1984-george-orwell-donald-trump.html |url-status=live}}

In January 2017, The Guardian reported that, "[a] search of several online legal dictionaries, however, did not yield any results for the term."{{cite news |last1=Gabbatt |first1=Adam |title=Even rightwing sites call out Trump administration over 'alternative facts' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/23/rightwing-sites-trump-administration-alternative-facts |work=The Guardian |date=January 23, 2017|access-date=February 17, 2017|archive-date=November 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112002147/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/23/rightwing-sites-trump-administration-alternative-facts|url-status=live}}

On February 2, 2017, Conway appeared in a television news show interview on Hardball with Chris Matthews. In order to justify President Trump's immigration ban, she referenced an event allegedly perpetrated by Iraqi terrorists she termed the "Bowling Green massacre". Such an event never took place.{{cite news |last=Resnick |first=Gideon |title=Kellyanne Conway Refers to Fake Bowling Green Massacre |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/02/02/kellyanne-conway-appears-to-invent-fake-bowling-green-massacre.html |date=February 2, 2017 |work=The Daily Beast |access-date=February 2, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203035954/http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/02/02/kellyanne-conway-appears-to-invent-fake-bowling-green-massacre.html |archive-date=February 3, 2017 |url-status=dead}}{{cite news |last=Beauchamp |first=Zack |title=Kellyanne Conway made up a fake terrorist attack to justify Trump's "Muslim ban" |url=https://www.vox.com/world/2017/2/2/14494478/bowling-green-massacre |date=February 2, 2017 |work=Vox |access-date=February 2, 2017 |archive-date=September 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210923094647/https://www.vox.com/world/2017/2/2/14494478/bowling-green-massacre |url-status=live}} Vox suggested Conway was referring to the 2011 arrest of two Iraqi refugees in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Conway stated the next day that she meant to say "Bowling Green terrorists", both of whom had pleaded guilty to carrying out and supporting attacks on American soldiers in Iraq.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/02/03/kellyanne-conway-cites-bowling-green-massacre-that-never-happened-to-defend-travel-ban/ |title=Kellyanne Conway cites 'Bowling Green massacre' that never happened to defend travel ban |date=February 3, 2017 |author=Schmidt, Samantha |newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=February 3, 2017|archive-date=March 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210315094257/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/02/03/kellyanne-conway-cites-bowling-green-massacre-that-never-happened-to-defend-travel-ban/|url-status=live}} There was never any suggestion that they had planned to carry out attacks in the United States.{{cite news |url=https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-iraqi-terrorists-living-kentucky-sentenced-terrorist-activities |title=Former Iraqi Terrorists Living in Kentucky Sentenced for Terrorist Activities |date=January 29, 2013 |work=U.S. Department of Justice|access-date=February 3, 2017|archive-date=February 9, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170209121905/https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-iraqi-terrorists-living-kentucky-sentenced-terrorist-activities|url-status=live}}

On February 5, 2017, New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen argued that, given repeated misstatements of fact, Conway should cease being booked as a guest on television news shows. CNN opted not to book Conway as a guest that day because of what the network said were "serious questions about her credibility."[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/05/business/the-massacre-that-wasnt-and-a-turning-point-for-fake-news.html "The massacre that wasn't, and a turning point for 'fake news',"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210629114358/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/05/business/the-massacre-that-wasnt-and-a-turning-point-for-fake-news.html |date=June 29, 2021 }} The New York Times, February 5, 2017, retrieved February 7, 2017.Engel, Pamela, [http://www.businessinsider.com/cnn-sean-spicer-kellyanne-conway-credibility-2017-2 "CNN fires back at Sean Spicer: We have not 'walked back' comments on Kellyanne Conway's credibility] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210629064604/https://www.businessinsider.com/cnn-sean-spicer-kellyanne-conway-credibility-2017-2 |date=June 29, 2021 }}, Business Insider, February 7, 2017, retrieved February 7, 2017.

The Hatch Act of 1939 states that federal government employees must not advocate their political beliefs while representing a public office. Violating such a law can result in such an employee being removed from public office, but not jailed.{{cite news |last1=Phillips |first1=Amber |title=What is the Hatch Act, and why did Kellyanne Conway get accused of violating it so egregiously? |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/06/13/what-is-hatch-act-why-did-kellyanne-conway-get-accused-violating-it-so-egregiously |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=June 14, 2019 |archive-date=December 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224221844/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/06/13/what-is-hatch-act-why-did-kellyanne-conway-get-accused-violating-it-so-egregiously/ |url-status=live}} Conway has been accused of breaching the act on several occasions:

On February 9, 2017, during an appearance on Fox & Friends, Conway discussed department store Nordstrom's decision to drop products supplied by Ivanka Trump's business. "Go buy Ivanka's stuff is what I would tell you", said Conway; she elaborated "It's a wonderful line. I own some of it. I'm going to give a free commercial here: Go buy it today, everybody. You can find it online".Sharman, Jon, [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kellyanne-conway-ivanka-trump-clothes-ethics-violation-fox-and-friends-a7571776.html "Kellyanne Conway accused of violating federal ethics law with 'Go buy Ivanka Trump's stuff' comment"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211214526/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kellyanne-conway-ivanka-trump-clothes-ethics-violation-fox-and-friends-a7571776.html |date=February 11, 2017 }}, The Independent, February 9, 2017.Oh, Inae, [https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/02/kellyanne-conway-ivanka-trump-ethics-experts Did Kellyanne Conway Just Break Federal Ethics Rules by Promoting Ivanka Trump's Clothing Line?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170428233143/http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/02/kellyanne-conway-ivanka-trump-ethics-experts |date=April 28, 2017 }}, Mother Jones, February 9, 2017. Within hours, two organizations filed formal ethics complaints against Conway for violating federal law prohibiting use of a federal position "for the endorsement of any product, service or enterprise".{{cite web |url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/2635.702 |title=5 CFR 2635.702 – Use of public office for private gain.|access-date=March 10, 2017|archive-date=March 10, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170310234729/https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/2635.702|url-status=live}} Public Citizen asked the Office of Governmental Ethics (OGE) to investigate, saying that Conway's remarks reflected "an on-going careless regard of the conflicts of interest laws and regulations of some members of the Trump family and Trump Administration". The group's president, Robert Weissman, declared, "Since she said it was an advertisement, that both eliminates any question about whether outsiders are unfairly reading into what's being said, and two, it makes clear that wasn't an inadvertent remark".NBC News, [https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/was-kellyanne-conway-s-ivanka-trump-fashion-line-plug-legal-n718831 Did Kellyanne Conway's Ivanka Trump Fashion Line Plug Violate Ethics Rules?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215211004/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/was-kellyanne-conway-s-ivanka-trump-fashion-line-plug-legal-n718831 |date=February 15, 2021 }}, February 9, 2017. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a similar complaint with the OGE and with the White House Counsel's Office;[http://s3.amazonaws.com/storage.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/09174155/Conway-letter-2-9-17.pdf Letter of Noah Bookbinder] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211155716/http://s3.amazonaws.com/storage.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/09174155/Conway-letter-2-9-17.pdf |date=February 11, 2017 }}, February 9, 2017. the group's executive director, Noah Bookbinder, stated "This seems to us to be about as clear-cut a violation as you can find".Pérez-Peña, Richard, and Rachel Abrams, [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/09/us/politics/kellyanne-conway-ivanka-trump-ethics.html "Kellyanne Conway Promotes Ivanka Trump Brand, Raising Ethics Concerns"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210204184107/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/09/us/politics/kellyanne-conway-ivanka-trump-ethics.html |date=February 4, 2021 }}, New York Times, February 9, 2017.

Harvard constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe told The New York Times "You couldn't think of a clearer example of violating the ban of using your government position as kind of a walking billboard for products or services offered by a private individual," adding "She is attempting quite crudely to enrich Ivanka and therefore the president's family." Chris Lu, deputy secretary of labor in the Obama administration, complained to Jason Chaffetz, chair of the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, that Conway had violated federal ethics laws,Savransky, Rebecca, [https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/318668-top-obama-official-accuses-conway-of-breaking-the-law-with-ivanka/ Top Obama official: Conway broke law by promoting Ivanka's clothing line], The Hill, February 9, 2017. also saying on Twitter that, under Obama, "If we did what @KellyannePolls did, we would've been fired".ABC News, [https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/legal-experts-conway-violated-ethics-rules-tv-endorsement/story?id=45376786 Legal Experts: Conway Violated Ethics Rules in TV Endorsement of Ivanka Trump Brand] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210921120012/https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/legal-experts-conway-violated-ethics-rules-tv-endorsement/story?id=45376786 |date=September 21, 2021 }}. February 9, 2017. Richard Painter, chief ethics attorney for George W. Bush, declined to say whether he thought Conway's statements broke the law, but that such actions would not have been tolerated in the Bush administration. "The events of the past week demonstrate that there is no intent on the part of the president, his family or the White House staff to make meaningful distinctions between his official capacity as president and the Trump family business". At the regularly scheduled afternoon press briefing, Sean Spicer told reporters that "Kellyanne has been counseled, and that's all we are going to go with ... She's been counseled on the subject, and that's it."Kamisar, Ben, [https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/318761-white-house-conway-has-been-counseled-after-plugging-ivanka-trumps/ "Spicer: Conway 'has been counseled' after plugging Ivanka Trump's brand"], The Hill, February 9, 2017. In a direct rebuke to Spicer, Conway tweeted that Trump "likes 'counselor' more than 'counseled.'"{{Cite news |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/02/kellyanne-conway-west-wing |title=The West Wing Civil War is Getting Nastier |last=Tracy |first=Abigail |work=The Hive|access-date=December 8, 2017 |language=en|archive-date=January 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127020033/https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/02/kellyanne-conway-west-wing|url-status=live}}{{Cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/10/politics/kellyanne-conway-tweets-potus-supports-me |title=Kellyanne Conway apologized to Donald Trump after Ivanka clothing line comments |author1=Sunlen Serfaty |author2=Dan Merica |work=CNN|access-date=December 8, 2017|archive-date=November 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211106214053/https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/10/politics/kellyanne-conway-tweets-potus-supports-me|url-status=live}}

Conway's comments drew bipartisan Congressional condemnation. Chaffetz, a Republican, called them "clearly over the line" and "unacceptable". Cummings, a Democrat and the committee's ranking member, called them "jaw-dropping".[http://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-counselor-conway-violates-ethics-laws-watchdog-says-2017-02-09 "Trump counselor Conway violates ethics laws, congressional leaders say,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210627224727/https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-counselor-conway-violates-ethics-laws-watchdog-says-2017-02-09 |date=June 27, 2021 }} MarketWatch, February 9, 2017, retrieved February 9, 2017. Both Chaffetz and Cummings wrote the OGE on February 9, 2017, requesting that Conway's behavior be investigated and that the office recommend "suggested disciplinary action, if warranted".[https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Letter-to-OGE-re-Conway-Endorsement-FINAL.pdf "Letter to OGE from Jason Chaffetz and Elijah Cummings,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170209230110/https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Letter-to-OGE-re-Conway-Endorsement-FINAL.pdf |date=February 9, 2017 }}, oversight.house.gov, February 9, 2017. Retrieved February 10, 2017.

On November 24, 2017, Walter Shaub, the former director of the OGE, said that he filed an ethics complaint against Conway.{{cite web |last1=Green |first1=Miranda |title=Former ethics director: Kellyanne Conway violated Hatch Act with Roy Moore comments |url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/22/politics/kellyanne-conway-hatch-act/index.html |publisher=CNN|access-date=November 25, 2017 |location=Washington |date=November 24, 2017|archive-date=November 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211106214531/https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/22/politics/kellyanne-conway-hatch-act/index.html|url-status=live}} He argued that Conway violated the Hatch Act when she criticized Doug Jones, a candidate in the 2017 U.S. Senate special election in Alabama. On March 6, 2018, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC){{snd}}led by Trump appointee Henry Kerner{{snd}}issued its final report, determining that Conway violated the Hatch Act in two television interviews in November and December 2017.{{cite news |last=Mallin |first=Alexander |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/kellyanne-conway-found-violated-hatch-act/story?id=53557326 |title=Kellyanne Conway found to have violated law banning use of office for political ends |date=March 6, 2018 |publisher=ABC News |access-date=March 6, 2018 |archive-date=March 6, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180306213524/http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/kellyanne-conway-found-violated-hatch-act/story?id=53557326 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |author-link=Henry Kerner |first=Henry |last=Kerner |url=https://osc.gov/Resources/Conway%20HA-18-0966%20Final%20Report.pdf |title=Report of Prohibited Political Activity under the Hatch Act OSC File No. HA-18-0966 (Kellyanne Conway) |work=U.S. Office of Special Counsel |date=March 6, 2018 |access-date=March 8, 2018 |archive-date=May 29, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190529225453/https://osc.gov/Resources/Conway%20HA-18-0966%20Final%20Report.pdf |url-status=dead}}

Conway continued to make frequent television appearances and comment on political topics. In May 2019, Conway declared: "If you’re trying to silence me through the Hatch Act, it's not going to work ... Let me know when the jail sentence starts".{{cite web |last1=Samuels |first1=Brett |title=Kellyanne Conway dismisses Hatch Act violation: 'Let me know when the jail sentence starts' |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/445914-kellyanne-conway-dismisses-hatch-act-violation-let-me-know-when-the/ |website=The Hill |access-date=June 13, 2018 |archive-date=July 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210702084226/https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/445914-kellyanne-conway-dismisses-hatch-act-violation-let-me-know-when-the |url-status=live}}

On June 13, 2019, the OSC formally recommended that Conway be removed from federal service, citing multiple Hatch Act violations by Conway since the preparation of its 2018 report, "by disparaging Democratic presidential candidates while speaking in her official capacity during television interviews and on social media". The OSC noted her criticism from February to May 2019 of candidates such as Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, Beto O'Rourke, Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden and Kirsten Gillibrand, and also called her violations "egregious, notorious, and ongoing". The OSC noted that this was the first time they "had to issue multiple reports to the President concerning Hatch Act violations by the same individual".{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/office-of-special-counsel-recommends-removal-of-kellyanne-conway-from-federal-office-for-violating-the-hatch-act/2019/06/13/0786ae2e-8df4-11e9-8f69-a2795fca3343_story.html |title=Federal watchdog agency recommends removal of Kellyanne Conway from federal office for violating the Hatch Act |newspaper=The Washington Post |first1=Michelle Ye Hee |last1=Lee |first2=Lisa |last2=Rein |first3=Josh |last3=Dawsey |authorlink=Michelle Ye Hee Lee |date=June 13, 2019|access-date=June 13, 2019|archive-date=July 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210730104258/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/office-of-special-counsel-recommends-removal-of-kellyanne-conway-from-federal-office-for-violating-the-hatch-act/2019/06/13/0786ae2e-8df4-11e9-8f69-a2795fca3343_story.html|url-status=live}}{{cite web |last1=Freking |first1=Kevin |last2=Superville |first2=Darlene |title=Federal Watchdog Agency Says White House Should Fire Kellyanne Conway for Violating the Hatch Act |url=https://www.apnews.com/b2f61bdd9831460b98cba45fefc9b293 |website=Associated Press |date=June 14, 2019 |access-date=June 14, 2019 |archive-date=June 30, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210630005917/https://apnews.com/b2f61bdd9831460b98cba45fefc9b293 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |last1=Baker |first1=Peter |title=Trump Is Urged to Fire Kellyanne Conway for Hatch Act Violations |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/13/us/politics/kellyanne-conway-hatch-act.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=June 14, 2019 |date=June 13, 2019 |archive-date=October 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211021063806/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/13/us/politics/kellyanne-conway-hatch-act.html |url-status=live}} In an interview, Kerner characterized his agency's recommendation as unprecedented, adding, "You know what else is unprecedented? Kellyanne Conway’s behavior."

Due to Conway's status as a presidential appointee, the OSC was unable to take any steps to implement its recommendation, but it was submitted to the President for consideration.{{cite news |last1=Sonmez |first1=Felicia |title=Federal watchdog agency recommends removal of Kellyanne Conway from federal office for violating the Hatch Act |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/office-of-special-counsel-recommends-removal-of-kellyanne-conway-from-federal-office-for-violating-the-hatch-act/2019/06/13/0786ae2e-8df4-11e9-8f69-a2795fca3343_story.html |access-date=June 13, 2019 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=June 13, 2019 |language=en |archive-date=July 30, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210730104258/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/office-of-special-counsel-recommends-removal-of-kellyanne-conway-from-federal-office-for-violating-the-hatch-act/2019/06/13/0786ae2e-8df4-11e9-8f69-a2795fca3343_story.html |url-status=live}}{{cite news |last1=Singman |first1=Brooke |title=Special Counsel recommends firing Kellyanne Conway over alleged Hatch Act violations |url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/special-counsel-recommends-firing-of-kellyanne-conway-over-alleged-hatch-act-violations |access-date=June 13, 2019 |work=Fox News |date=June 13, 2019 |archive-date=June 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628022604/https://www.foxnews.com/politics/special-counsel-recommends-firing-of-kellyanne-conway-over-alleged-hatch-act-violations |url-status=live}}{{cite web |last1=Morin |first1=Rebecca |title=All the times Kellyanne Conway ran afoul of a federal watchdog over the Hatch Act |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/13/kellyanne-conway-times-trumps-counselor-ran-afoul-hatch-act/1446389001/ |website=USA Today |access-date=June 14, 2019 |date=June 13, 2019 |archive-date=June 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624210155/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/13/kellyanne-conway-times-trumps-counselor-ran-afoul-hatch-act/1446389001/ |url-status=live}} The White House immediately rejected the finding and demanded that it be withdrawn by the OSC.{{cite web |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-conway-idUSKCN1TE2FI |title=Government watchdog: Trump aide Conway should be fired for... |date=June 13, 2019 |work=Reuters|access-date=June 13, 2019|archive-date=June 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210627232350/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-conway-idUSKCN1TE2FI|url-status=live}} Trump said he thought the recommendation was "very unfair, it's called freedom of speech."{{cite news |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/14/politics/kellyanne-conway-trump-hatch-act/index.html |title=Trump won't fire Conway despite federal agency recommendation |last=Vazquez |first=Maegan |date=June 14, 2019 |work=CNN|access-date=June 14, 2019|archive-date=October 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211009215004/https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/14/politics/kellyanne-conway-trump-hatch-act/index.html|url-status=live}}

On June 26, 2019, Conway did not appear at a hearing by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, leading that committee to issue a subpoena for her. At that hearing, Special Counsel Henry Kerner testified that Conway had been found guilty of two Hatch Act violations in 2018 and 11 in 2019. In comparison, during the eight years of the Obama administration, only two federal employees were found guilty of violating the Hatch Act, with one violation each.{{cite web |last1=Kwong |first1=Jessica |title=Kellyanne Conway had more Hatch Act violation reports filed against her than anyone else in 30 years |url=https://www.newsweek.com/kellyanne-conway-subpoena-hatch-act-1446085 |website=Newsweek |access-date=June 27, 2019 |date=June 26, 2019 |archive-date=October 29, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029120729/https://www.newsweek.com/kellyanne-conway-subpoena-hatch-act-1446085 |url-status=live}}

On February 13, 2017, Conway claimed that former national security advisor Michael Flynn had the president's "full confidence". Hours later, Flynn resigned.{{cite web |url=https://money.cnn.com/2017/02/22/media/kellyanne-conway-sidelined-from-tv/index.html |title=Kellyanne Conway sidelined from TV after Flynn debacle |first=Dylan |last=Byers |date=February 22, 2017 |website=CNN Money|access-date=March 10, 2017|archive-date=April 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410124451/https://money.cnn.com/2017/02/22/media/kellyanne-conway-sidelined-from-tv/index.html|url-status=live}} The following day, Conway claimed Flynn had offered to resign, but White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Trump had asked Flynn for his resignation. It was then reported that Conway had allegedly leaked negative stories about Spicer to the press.{{cite web |url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/15/politics/sean-spicer-white-house/index.html |title=Sean Spicer isn't finished |first=Dylan |last=Byers |website=CNN |date=February 15, 2017|access-date=March 10, 2017|archive-date=May 12, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170512161626/http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/15/politics/sean-spicer-white-house/index.html|url-status=live}}

Conway came under widespread criticism because her comments about Flynn had been so inaccurate. On February 15, 2017, Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin said Conway should be banned from future television appearances. "In recent days, George Stephanopoulos and Matt Lauer blasted her directly, essentially calling her a fabulist. Given all that, it would be irresponsible for any news show to put her out there, suggesting she really does not know what is going on at any given moment", Rubin wrote.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/02/15/can-we-start-ignoring-whatever-conway-and-spicer-say/ |title=Can we start ignoring whatever Conway and Spicer say? |first=Jennifer |last=Rubin |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=February 15, 2017 |access-date=February 21, 2017 |archive-date=March 12, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312062800/https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/02/15/can-we-start-ignoring-whatever-conway-and-spicer-say/ |url-status=live}} Also, on February 15, the MSNBC news show Morning Joe officially banned her from future appearances. The show's primary host Joe Scarborough said the decision to ban Conway from the show was based on her being "out of the loop" and "in none of the key meetings". He added "She's not briefed. She's just saying things just to get in front of the TV to prove her relevance."{{cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/morning-joe-bans-trump-aide-kellyanne-conway-article-1.2973225 |title="Morning Joe" bans Trump aide Kellyanne Conway: She's not credible anymore |work=New York Daily News |date=February 15, 2017 |access-date=February 19, 2017 |archive-date=September 15, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170915044111/http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/morning-joe-bans-trump-aide-kellyanne-conway-article-1.2973225 |url-status=live}} The show's co-host Mika Brzezinski said, "I don't believe in fake news, or information that is not true... every time I've ever seen her on television, something's askew, off or incorrect."

For the week following her Flynn comments, she did not appear on any television shows, and it was reported that the White House had sidelined Conway. Denying the report, White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders told CNNMoney that Conway was going to make many appearances during the week, and Conway told CNN journalist Dylan Byers that she would be appearing on Fox News that evening. The week-long absence from television finally ended when she appeared on an episode of Hannity during the Conservative Political Action Conference.{{cite web |url=http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/the-wrap/article/Why-Kellyanne-Conway-Hasn-t-Been-on-TV-Lately-10951521.php |title=Why Kellyanne Conway Hasn't Been on TV Lately|work=SFGate |date=February 22, 2017 |access-date=March 10, 2017|archive-date=January 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127153006/https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/the-wrap/article/Why-Kellyanne-Conway-Hasn-t-Been-on-TV-Lately-10951521.php|url-status=live}}

Conway came under criticism when she was photographed sitting on an Oval Office couch with her legs folded beneath her and her shoes pressed against the upholstery during President Trump's meeting with leaders from historically black colleges and universities.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kellyanne-conway-explains-why-she-was-kneeling-oval-office-couch-n727576 |title='No Disrespect': Conway explains why she was kneeling on Oval Office couch |work=NBC News|access-date=December 6, 2017 |language=en|archive-date=December 6, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171206210123/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kellyanne-conway-explains-why-she-was-kneeling-oval-office-couch-n727576|url-status=live}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kellyanne-conway-feet-up-oval-office-sofa-donald-trump-white-house-strong-reaction-twitter-a7603206.html |title=People have strong feelings about this photo of Kellyanne Conway in the Oval Office |date=February 28, 2017 |work=The Independent|access-date=December 6, 2017 |language=en-GB|archive-date=April 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190427210113/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kellyanne-conway-feet-up-oval-office-sofa-donald-trump-white-house-strong-reaction-twitter-a7603206.html|url-status=live}} Some observers suggested the sitting position was a sign of disrespect and a lack of decorum.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/28/us/politics/kellyanne-conway-couch.html |title=Kellyanne Conway Casually Sits, and Etiquette Arbiters Take a Stand |last=Rogers |first=Katie |date=February 28, 2017 |work=The New York Times|access-date=December 6, 2017 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331|archive-date=February 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210206051159/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/28/us/politics/kellyanne-conway-couch.html|url-status=live}} Body language expert Patti Wood asserted that Conway's posture was not only rude but "rather sexual" and a sign that she "doesn't have to follow the rules" because she was "buddies with Trump."{{Cite news |url=http://hollywoodlife.com/2017/02/28/kellyanne-conway-body-language-white-house-couch-sexual/ |title=Kellyanne Conway's 'Sexual' Sitting Position In WH Says 'I Don't Follow Rules' – Expert Says |last=Radvan |first=Sophie |date=February 28, 2017 |work=Hollywood Life|access-date=December 6, 2017 |language=en-US|archive-date=February 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210202153802/https://hollywoodlife.com/2017/02/28/kellyanne-conway-body-language-white-house-couch-sexual/|url-status=live}} Conway later addressed the controversy with Lou Dobbs, saying that she was asked to take photographs of the meeting from a certain angle and that she certainly meant "no disrespect." She also blamed the media for the ensuing furor.{{Cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/01/kellyanne-conway-explains-disrespectful-oval-office-sofa-picture/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/01/kellyanne-conway-explains-disrespectful-oval-office-sofa-picture/ |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Kellyanne Conway explains 'disrespectful' Oval Office sofa picture |last=Horton |first=Helena |date=March 1, 2017 |work=The Telegraph|access-date=December 6, 2017 |language=en-GB |issn=0307-1235}}{{cbignore}}

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In September 2021, President Biden sent Conway a letter requesting that she resign from her position on the U.S. Air Force Academy's board of visitors, informing her that she'd otherwise be dismissed from it. Biden sent similar letters to eleven other political officials that Trump had appointed to military academy boards. Conway refused President Biden's request that she resign, and argued that her removal from the board broke norms, politicized the post, and would discourage others from serving on such boards in the future.{{cite web |last1=Steck |first1=Andrew Kaczynski, Em |title=Biden administration tells ex-Trump officials to resign from military academy advisory boards or be dismissed {{!}} CNN Politics |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/08/politics/trump-appointees-biden-boards/index.html |website=CNN |access-date=19 July 2024 |language=en |date=8 September 2021}}{{cite web |last1=Shane |first1=Leo, III |title=Biden boots Trump appointees from military academy advisory boards |url=https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2021/09/08/biden-boots-trump-appointees-from-west-point-advisory-board |website=Military Times |access-date=19 July 2024 |language=en |date=8 September 2021}}{{cite web |last1=Clark |first1=Dartunorro |title=Conway refuses Biden request for Trump appointees to leave military academy advisory boards |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/conway-refuses-biden-request-trump-appointees-leave-military-academy-advisory-n1278743 |website=NBC News |access-date=19 July 2024 |language=en |date=9 September 2021}} Conway, who had no prior connection to the Air Force, had been appointed to the board by Trump in the final weeks of his presidency.{{cite web |last1=Brown |first1=Hayes |title=Opinion {{!}} Kellyanne Conway's well-deserved crash landing |url=https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/kellyanne-conway-didn-t-belong-air-force-academy-board-n1278845 |website=MSNBC |access-date=19 July 2024 |language=en |date=9 September 2021}}

In 2022, Conway joined Fox News as a contributor.{{Cite web |date=2023-05-05 |title=Kellyanne Conway |url=https://www.foxnews.com/person/c/kellyanne-conway |access-date=2023-05-06 |website=Fox News |language=en-US}} She frequently appears as a guest/host on a variety of programs, including Hannity, The Five, Outnumbered, The Big Weekend Show, and more. Conway also contributed to Fox's 2022 Midterm Election coverage. In July 2024, Fox News announced that Conway will host a weekly program on the network's streaming platform, Fox Nation, called Here's The Deal with Kellyanne Conway.{{Cite web |last=Fortinsky |first=Sarah |date=2024-07-08 |title=Kellyanne Conway launches weekly series on Fox Nation |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4760089-kellyanne-conway-fox-nation-show/ |access-date=2024-07-11 |website=The Hill |language=en-US}}

In April 2022, Conway joined the board of the America First Policy Institute.{{cite web |title=Kellyanne Conway Joins the America First Policy Institute |url=https://americafirstpolicy.com/issues/kellyanne-conway-joins-afpi |website=America First Policy Institute |access-date=19 July 2024 |language=en |date=April 21, 2022}} In November 2022, Conway gave an on the record interview to the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack.{{cite web |last1=Nobles |first1=Ryan |last2=Talbot |first2=Haley |last3=Shabad |first3=Rebecca |last4=Brown-Kaiser |first4=Liz |title=Kellyanne Conway meets with Jan. 6 committee for nearly 5 hours |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/kellyanne-conway-appears-jan-6-committee-rcna58963 |website=NBC News |access-date=19 July 2024 |language=en |date=28 November 2022}} On March 1, 2023, Conway spoke with prosecutors from the Manhattan district attorney's office as part of their criminal investigation into Trump{{cite web |last1=Piccoli |first1=Sean |last2=Bromwich |first2=Jonah E. |last3=Protess |first3=Ben |last4=Rashbaum |first4=William K. |title=Kellyanne Conway Meets With Prosecutors as Trump Inquiry Escalates |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/01/nyregion/kellyanne-conway-stormy-daniels-trump-inquiry.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=19 July 2024 |date=1 March 2023}}

Since 2024, Conway has been paid by the Club for Growth to advocate on behalf of the social media app TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance.{{Cite news |last=Lippman |first=Daniel |date=March 9, 2024 |title=Kellyanne Conway advocating for TikTok on Capitol Hill |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/09/kellyanne-conway-tiktok-trump-00146144 |access-date=March 10, 2024 |work=Politico}} In this capacity, Conway lobbied against efforts to restrict or force the sale of TikTok amid congressional consideration of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act.{{cite web |last1=Lippman |first1=Daniel |title=Kellyanne Conway Advocating for TikTok on Capitol Hill |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/09/kellyanne-conway-tiktok-trump-00146144 |website=Politico |access-date=19 July 2024 |date=March 9, 2024}}

In December 2023, Conway met with congressional Republicans and argued that it was electorally necessary for them to support protections of access to birth control, citing public approval for such protection.{{cite web |last1=Ollstein |first1=Alice Miranda |title=Contraception is a winning issue, conservative strategists tell GOP |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/13/kellyanne-conway-contraception-republicans-2024-00131410 |website=Politico |access-date=19 July 2024 |date=December 13, 2023}} Shortly after the Supreme Court of Alabama delivered their February 2024 ruling in LePage v. Center for Reproductive Medicine, Conway's firm shared polls that they had conducted demonstrating broad public support for protections of IVF and fertility treatments, even among Americans opposed to abortion and self-identifying evangelicals.{{cite web |last1=Oliphant |first1=James |last2=Ax |first2=Joseph |title=Republicans, Trump try to contain backlash from Alabama fertility ruling |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republicans-trump-try-contain-backlash-alabama-fertility-ruling-2024-02-23 |website=Reuters |access-date=19 July 2024 |date=February 23, 2024}}

Conway delivered a speech during on the third night of the 2024 Republican National Convention.{{cite web |title=WATCH: Kellyanne Conway speaks at 2024 Republican National Convention |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-kellyanne-conway-speaks-at-2024-republican-national-convention |website=PBS News |access-date=19 July 2024 |language=en-us |date=17 July 2024}}

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Conway views herself as a Generation X conservative.{{cite web |url=http://www.hoover.org/research/gen-x-files |title=GEN X FILES |publisher=Hoover Institute |date=October 31, 1997|access-date=December 29, 2016|archive-date=November 16, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116121810/https://www.hoover.org/research/gen-x-files|url-status=live}} Conway is anti-abortion, saying in 1996: "We're pro-life. The fetus beat us. We grew up with sonograms. We know life when we see it."{{cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1996/09/in-the-land-of-conservative-women/376667/ |title=In the Land of Conservative Women |first=Elinor |last=Burkett |magazine=The Atlantic |date=September 1996|access-date=March 8, 2017|archive-date=September 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906002106/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1996/09/in-the-land-of-conservative-women/376667/|url-status=live}} She spoke at the 2017 March for Life, an annual rally protesting abortion and Roe v. Wade.{{cite news |first1=Eugene |last1=Scott |first2=Sara |last2=Murray |title=Pence, Conway cheer on March for Life |publisher=CNN |date=January 27, 2017 |url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/27/politics/trump-march-for-life-call/|access-date=January 28, 2017|archive-date=June 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628141955/https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/27/politics/trump-march-for-life-call/|url-status=live}}

She does not consider herself a feminist "in a classical sense", saying that she believes the term is associated with being "anti-male" and "pro-abortion", but identifies as what she calls an "individual feminist".{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/02/23/kellyanne-conway-feminism-associated-with-being-anti-male-and-pro-abortion/ |title=Kellyanne Conway: Feminism associated with being 'anti-male' and 'pro-abortion' |last=Wagner |first=John |date=February 23, 2017 |newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=December 6, 2017 |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286|archive-date=January 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126092128/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/02/23/kellyanne-conway-feminism-associated-with-being-anti-male-and-pro-abortion/|url-status=live}} Conway has opined that many feminists fail to accept women who are pro-life and conservative, and that they "'mainly care about what happens from the waist down... It's an insult. You know, it's [from] the waist up for me – my eyes, my ears, my head, my heart, my mouth certainly.'" She has also said that "nobody cared" about her experience with sexual harassment and her Me Too moment because of her political views.{{Cite news |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/05/kellyanne-conway-me-too-sexual-harassment-281050 |title=Kellyanne Conway on her 'Me too' moment: 'Nobody cared' |work=Politico|access-date=December 6, 2017|archive-date=June 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628000003/https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/05/kellyanne-conway-me-too-sexual-harassment-281050|url-status=live}}

Conway was married to George Conway,{{cite web |url=http://emanilamail.com/filams-greet-potential-trump-pick-solicitor-general-surprise-skepticism/ |title=FilAms Greet Potential Trump Pick for Solicitor General With Surprise, Skepticism – Manila Mail Newspaper|access-date=March 10, 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170214175914/http://emanilamail.com/filams-greet-potential-trump-pick-solicitor-general-surprise-skepticism/|archive-date=February 14, 2017}} who is of counsel at the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and wrote the Supreme Court brief for Paula Jones during the Clinton impeachment in 1998.{{cite web |title=George T. Conway III |url=http://www.wlrk.com/GTConway/ |website=Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz|access-date=March 21, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190225021313/http://www.wlrk.com/gtconway/|archive-date=February 25, 2019|url-status=dead}}{{Cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/trump-considers-kellyanne-conway-husband-top-lawyer-job-article-1.2929257 |title=Trump considers Kellyanne Conway's husband for top US lawyer job |work=NY Daily News|access-date=March 27, 2017 |language=en|archive-date=November 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127064549/https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/trump-considers-kellyanne-conway-husband-top-lawyer-job-article-1.2929257|url-status=live}} The couple have four children: twins Claudia and George IV, Charlotte, and Vanessa. Prior to Trump's presidency, they lived in Alpine, New Jersey.{{cite web |url=http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/news/a62994/kellyanne-conway-trump-new-campaign-manager/ |title=Who Is Kellyanne Conway? 13 Things to Know About Donald Trump's Presidential Counselor. |date=January 22, 2017|access-date=January 23, 2017|archive-date=January 20, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170120185202/http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/news/a62994/kellyanne-conway-trump-new-campaign-manager/|url-status=live}}{{cite news |last=Johnson |first=Brent |url=https://www.nj.com/politics/2016/11/whats_next_for_conway_trumps_nj-bred_campaign_mana.html |title=How N.J. native Conway got Trump over the finish line |publisher=NJ Advance Media |work=NJ.com |date=November 9, 2016 |access-date=November 9, 2016 |quote=Conway, who grew up in the Atco section of Waterford Township in Camden County, was hired in August, at a time when Trump was suffering from gaffes and drooping poll numbers... Conway, her husband, and her four children now live in the northern part of the state, in Alpine in Bergen County. |archive-date=January 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200117173506/https://www.nj.com/politics/2016/11/whats_next_for_conway_trumps_nj-bred_campaign_mana.html |url-status=live}} Prior to her marriage, Conway dated senator Fred Thompson.*{{cite magazine |last1=Burkett |first1=Elinor |title=Kellyanne Conway Has Been Quietly Revolutionizing D.C. Since the Late '90s |url=https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/news/a20370/kellyanne-conway-1998-interview/ |access-date=May 24, 2022 |magazine=Harper's BAZAAR |date=February 3, 2017 |archive-date=May 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220517155909/https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/news/a20370/kellyanne-conway-1998-interview/ |url-status=live}}

• {{cite magazine |last1=Cottle |first1=Michelle |title=Jeri Rigged |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/61326/jeri-rigged |access-date=May 24, 2022 |magazine=The New Republic |date=October 12, 2007 |archive-date=February 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226223446/https://newrepublic.com/article/61326/jeri-rigged |url-status=live}}
• {{cite news |last1=Vadala |first1=Nick |title=Video surfaces of 1998 Kellyanne Conway stand-up comedy performance |url=https://www.inquirer.com/philly/blogs/entertainment/Video-surfaces-of-1998-Kellyanne-Conway-stand-up-comedy-performance.html |access-date=May 24, 2022 |work=Philadelphia Inquirer |date=January 25, 2017 |language=en |archive-date=May 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220524140107/https://www.inquirer.com/philly/blogs/entertainment/Video-surfaces-of-1998-Kellyanne-Conway-stand-up-comedy-performance.html |url-status=live}}
• {{Cite web |url=https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/politics/national/features/2165/index1.html |title=Washington's Sexual Awakening |website=NYMag.com|date=February 9, 1998 |access-date=October 10, 2017|archive-date=June 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210627234521/https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/politics/national/features/2165/index1.html|url-status=live}}
• {{Cite news |url=https://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/08/meet-kellyanne-conway-trumps-new-campaign-manager.html |title=Meet Kellyanne Conway, Trump's New Campaign Manager |last=Kilgore |first=Ed |work=Daily Intelligencer|access-date=October 10, 2017 |language=en|archive-date=August 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820170146/http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/08/meet-kellyanne-conway-trumps-new-campaign-manager.html|url-status=live}}

George Conway is a critic of Trump; in December 2019 he co-founded the Lincoln Project, which campaigned against Trump's re-election from a conservative perspective.{{cite news |title=Republican election strategists launch anti-Trump project ahead of 2020 |url=https://www.axios.com/never-trump-republicans-lincoln-project-2020-george-conway-47c487d2-a88c-4178-b25c-8683d008fb40.html |access-date=January 10, 2020 |work=Axios |date=December 17, 2019 |archive-date=March 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308133652/https://www.axios.com/never-trump-republicans-lincoln-project-2020-george-conway-47c487d2-a88c-4178-b25c-8683d008fb40.html |url-status=live}} In March 2019, Trump responded to criticism from Kellyanne's husband George by describing George as a "stone cold LOSER & husband from hell".{{cite news |last1=Wagner |first1=John |last2=Dawsey |first2=Josh |title='Husband from hell!': Trump escalates feud with spouse of Kellyanne Conway, says he's hurting his family |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/husband-from-hell-trump-escalates-feud-with-spouse-of-kellyanne-conway/2019/03/20/587a03d8-4b07-11e9-93d0-64dbcf38ba41_story.html |access-date=December 17, 2019 |newspaper=Washington Post |date=March 20, 2019 |archive-date=November 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201113090827/https://www.washingtonpost.com//politics/husband-from-hell-trump-escalates-feud-with-spouse-of-kellyanne-conway/2019/03/20/587a03d8-4b07-11e9-93d0-64dbcf38ba41_story.html |url-status=live}} Kellyanne defended Trump by saying that George Conway is "not a psychiatrist" and that Trump should not be expected to respond when George, "a non-medical professional accuses him of having a mental disorder".{{cite web |last1=Lippman |first1=Daniel |title=Kellyanne Conway defends Trump after he attacked her husband |date=March 20, 2019 |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/20/kellyanne-george-conway-trump-1229193 |publisher=Politico |access-date=March 22, 2019 |archive-date=February 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210213105321/https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/20/kellyanne-george-conway-trump-1229193 |url-status=live}}

Conway's daughter Claudia is a TikTok influencer who became known in 2020, at age 15, for her anti-Trump messages.{{cite web |last1=Darby |first1=Luke |title=Kellyanne Conway's Kid Is an Anti-Trump Leftist TikTokker |url=https://www.gq.com/story/kellyanne-conway-daughter-tiktok |website=GQ |date=June 30, 2020 |access-date=July 4, 2020 |archive-date=March 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210306203754/https://www.gq.com/story/kellyanne-conway-daughter-tiktok |url-status=live}}{{cite web |last1=Santucci |first1=Jeanine |title=Kellyanne Conway's teen daughter hopes to help 'educate' with TikToks opposing Trump, supporting Black Lives Matter |url=https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/06/30/kellyanne-conways-teen-daughter-claudia-posts-anti-trump-videos/3285180001/|access-date=July 4, 2020 |website=USA Today|archive-date=August 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210816222250/https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/06/30/kellyanne-conways-teen-daughter-claudia-posts-anti-trump-videos/3285180001/|url-status=live}}{{cite web |last1=Evans |first1=Greg |title=George & Kellyanne Conway Tell Journalists To Stay Away From Daughter Claudia; She Doesn't Take It Well |url=https://deadline.com/2020/07/claudia-conway-george-kellyanne-twitter-sorry-marriage-failed-1202977251/|access-date=July 4, 2020 |website=Deadline |date=July 3, 2020|archive-date=January 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127021534/https://deadline.com/2020/07/claudia-conway-george-kellyanne-twitter-sorry-marriage-failed-1202977251/|url-status=live}}{{cite tweet |user=JayShams |number=1278070107114266625 |date=June 30, 2020 |title=Claudia is doing a TikTok live now and taking questions from people. "'Do your parents get along?' Uh, I guess."}} In July 2020 she said that her parents' marriage had "failed". Claudia identifies as a leftist and liberal{{Cite web |last=Perrett |first=Connor |title=Kellyanne Conway's 15-year-old daughter is defiantly posting anti-Trump and pro-Black Lives Matter TikToks 'to inform people and spread love' |url=https://www.insider.com/claudia-conway-posting-anti-trump-tiktoks-2020-6|access-date=July 4, 2020 |website=Insider|date=June 20, 2020 |archive-date=November 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107141312/https://www.insider.com/claudia-conway-posting-anti-trump-tiktoks-2020-6|url-status=live}}{{Cite web |title=Kellyanne Conway's Daughter Became an Anti-Trump TikTok Star |url=https://people.com/politics/kellyanne-conway-teenage-daughter-claudia-anti-trump-tiktok/|access-date=July 4, 2020 |work=People |date=July 14, 2020 |first=Sean |last=Neumann |language=EN|archive-date=January 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126125639/https://people.com/politics/kellyanne-conway-teenage-daughter-claudia-anti-trump-tiktok/|url-status=live}} and described her TikTok fan base as "leftist, A.C.A.B. (All Cops Are Bastards), anti-trump, blm (Black Lives Matter)".{{cite web |last1=Alter |first1=Rebecca |title=Kellyanne Conway's Only Good Contribution to the World Is Her TikToker Daughter |url=https://www.vulture.com/2020/07/kellyanne-conway-daughter-claudia-tiktok.html |website=Vulture |date=July 2020 |access-date=July 4, 2020 |archive-date=March 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309031659/https://www.vulture.com/2020/07/kellyanne-conway-daughter-claudia-tiktok.html |url-status=live}} In August 2020, Claudia Conway announced she was seeking emancipation.{{cite web |url=https://www.today.com/news/kellyanne-conway-s-daughter-claudia-conway-15-says-she-s-t190044 |title=Kellyanne Conway's daughter Claudia, 15, says she's seeking emancipation |first=Alexander |last=Kacala |work=Today |publisher=NBC |date=August 23, 2020|access-date=August 23, 2020|archive-date=January 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120094705/https://www.today.com/news/kellyanne-conway-s-daughter-claudia-conway-15-says-she-s-t190044/|url-status=live}} In January 2021, she claimed that her mother has been "physically, mentally, and emotionally abusive," posting videos on TikTok appearing to show her mother screaming at and even once hitting her.{{cite web |url=https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2021/1/20/22241304/claudia-conway-kellyanne-abuse-tiktok-covid |title=Claudia Conway's TikToks about her mother's alleged abuse are more complicated than they seem |work=Vox |first=Rebecca |last=Jennings |date=January 20, 2021|access-date=January 21, 2021|archive-date=August 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210810234802/https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2021/1/20/22241304/claudia-conway-kellyanne-abuse-tiktok-covid|url-status=live}} On January 25, 2021, Kellyanne Conway's official Twitter account shared a topless photo of a girl later confirmed to be Claudia Conway.{{Cite news |first1=Dan |last1=Mangan |last2=Nunley |first2=Christian |date=January 26, 2021 |title=Police visit home of ex-Trump aide Kellyanne Conway after nude photo of daughter appears on Twitter |work=CNBC |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/26/kellyanne-conway-home-visited-by-police-after-nude-photo-of-daughter-appears-on-twitter.html |access-date=January 27, 2021 |archive-date=February 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210221024826/https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/26/kellyanne-conway-home-visited-by-police-after-nude-photo-of-daughter-appears-on-twitter.html |url-status=live}} New Jersey police launched an investigation into the matter.{{Cite news |last=Turner-Cohen |first=Alex |date=January 26, 2021 |work=7NEWS.com.au |title=Kellyanne Conway posts nude pic of daughter, in possible revenge move for child abuse allegations |url=https://7news.com.au/entertainment/kellyanne-conway-posts-nude-pic-of-daughter-in-possible-revenge-move-for-child-abuse-allegations-c-2037245 |access-date=January 27, 2021 |archive-date=February 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226094457/https://7news.com.au/entertainment/kellyanne-conway-posts-nude-pic-of-daughter-in-possible-revenge-move-for-child-abuse-allegations-c-2037245 |url-status=live}} At age 16, Claudia Conway appeared as a contestant on, but was eliminated from, American Idol.{{Cite news |last=Dicker |first=Don |date=March 23, 2021 |work=HuffPost |title=Claudia Conway Eliminated On 'American Idol' |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/claudia-conway-eliminated-american-idol_n_6059d51cc5b6cebf58d197a3 |access-date=May 19, 2022 |archive-date=May 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520030955/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/claudia-conway-eliminated-american-idol_n_6059d51cc5b6cebf58d197a3 |url-status=live}}

In September 2019, Conway's cousin Giovanna Coia, who was then White House press assistant, married Vice President Mike Pence's nephew John Pence, who worked for the Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign.{{Cite web |url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mike-pence-nephew-marries-kellyanne-conways-cousin-new-jersey |title=Mike Pence's nephew marries Kellyanne Conway's cousin in New Jersey: report |last=Wallace |first=Danielle |date=September 15, 2019 |website=Fox News |language=en-US|access-date=October 17, 2019|archive-date=June 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210627220214/https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mike-pence-nephew-marries-kellyanne-conways-cousin-new-jersey|url-status=live}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2018/09/19/kellyanne-conways-cousin-is-engaged-to-mike-pences-nephew/ |title=Kellyanne Conway's cousin is engaged to Mike Pence's nephew |first=Emily |last=Heil |newspaper=Washington Post |language=en|access-date=October 17, 2019|archive-date=January 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125060718/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2018/09/19/kellyanne-conways-cousin-is-engaged-to-mike-pences-nephew/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.nj.com/atlantic/2019/09/kellyanne-conways-cousin-mike-pences-nephew-to-marry-in-atlantic-city.html |title=Kellyanne Conway's cousin, Mike Pence's nephew to marry in Atlantic City |last=Nieto-Munoz |first=Sophie |date=September 14, 2019 |website=nj |language=en|access-date=October 17, 2019|archive-date=June 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210627224831/https://www.nj.com/atlantic/2019/09/kellyanne-conways-cousin-mike-pences-nephew-to-marry-in-atlantic-city.html|url-status=live}}

One of the few White House staffers to have Secret Service protection due to various threats, Conway chose "Blueberry" as her Secret Service code name because of associations with the fruit from her youth in pageants and berry picking.{{cite web |url=https://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/03/kellyanne-conway-trumps-first-lady.html |title=Kellyanne Conway Is the Real First Lady of Trump's America |first=Olivia |last=Nuzzi |date=March 18, 2017|access-date=April 19, 2017|archive-date=April 28, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170428124138/http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/03/kellyanne-conway-trumps-first-lady.html|url-status=live}}

In a September 2018 interview with Jake Tapper on CNN, Conway stated she was the victim of a sexual assault.{{cite news |last1=Horton |first1=Alex |title=Kellyanne Conway: 'I'm a victim of sexual assault' |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/30/kellyanne-conway-im-victim-sexual-assault/ |access-date=September 30, 2018 |newspaper=Washington Post |date=September 30, 2018 |archive-date=September 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180930173412/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/30/kellyanne-conway-im-victim-sexual-assault/ |url-status=live}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.thelily.com/mika-brzezinskis-rant-about-kellyanne-conways-faberge-egg-remark-draws-backlash/ |title=Mika Brzezinski's rant about Kellyanne Conway's 'Fabergé egg' remark draws backlash |last=Bever |first=Lindsey |date=October 5, 2018 |newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=October 10, 2018|archive-date=August 2, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802200024/https://www.thelily.com/mika-brzezinskis-rant-about-kellyanne-conways-faberge-egg-remark-draws-backlash/|url-status=live}}

On August 23, 2020, Conway announced her resignation in order to "spend more time with her family,"{{Cite web |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kellyanne-conway-anounces-white-house-departure/ |title=Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president, announces departure from White House to focus on family |website=cbsnews.com|date=August 24, 2020 |access-date=January 23, 2023|archive-date=January 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210111115210/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kellyanne-conway-anounces-white-house-departure/|url-status=live}} as did her husband George, who announced he had taken time off from the Lincoln Project and Twitter.{{Cite web |url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/23/politics/kellyanne-conway-george-conway-white-house-lincoln-project/index.html |title=Kellyanne Conway announces she's leaving the White House |author=Paul LeBlanc |website=CNN |date=August 24, 2020 |access-date=August 24, 2020|archive-date=February 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215215114/https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/23/politics/kellyanne-conway-george-conway-white-house-lincoln-project/index.html|url-status=live}}

In March 2023, George and Kellyanne announced that they were divorcing after 22 years of marriage.{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/03/04/kellyanne-conway-george-conway-divorce/ |title=Kellyanne Conway and George Conway confirm they are divorcing |date=March 4, 2023 |first1=Thomas |last1=Floyd |first2=Ben |last2=Terris |newspaper=The Washington Post}}

In 2005, Conway and Democratic pollster Celinda Lake co-authored What Women Really Want: How American Women Are Quietly Erasing Political, Racial, Class, and Religious Lines to Change the Way We Live (Free Press/Simon & Schuster, 2005; {{ISBN|0-7432-7382-6}}).

In 2022, Conway authored Here's the Deal: A Memoir (Threshold Editions, 2022; {{ISBN|1982187344}}).

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