Sitting with “Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski Thursday, George Conway nailed down what he called the “shortest distance between Donald Trump and an orange jumpsuit.”
The lawyer, former Trump ally and estranged husband to Kellyanne Conway was on the morning news program to weigh in on Trump’s deceptive campaign fundraising and where that money may actually be going – “Trump is using it to pay for legal fees and using it to keep people happy and silent,” he said.
But the clincher against the twice impeached former president is a little more straightforward than those developing claims: the FBI raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate and his handling of classified documents still looms over him.
“The reckoning for him is going to be broader than that piece of it, that civil fraud piece of it from the fundraising, the grift it,” Conway said. “I mean, he really, there was a broad-based conspiracy to stop the operation of the federal government insofar as it was undergoing a peaceful transfer of power. And that is, you know, more than money, more than anything else, it’s the most valuable thing we have in our democracy. If there’s justice in this world, that’s where he should be held to account.”
“The irony, though, is that simpler things often take the day,” he added, “and the documents case is just outright theft and lies.”
Especially considering the Washington Post’s new reporting reveals that Trump ordered his Mar-a-Lago staff to move the classified documents he’d taken after getting subpoenaed for their return, Conway concluded that to him, that “is the shortest distance between Donald Trump and an orange jumpsuit in that case because it is so simple.”
“It’s like a U.S. attorney trying to bring a big mob case against the five families and trying to connect it up to the boss, and all of a sudden, they get the call from the NYPD saying ‘Hey, the big boss, the capo, is loading jewelry on a truck at Kennedy Airport,’” Conway said. “That’s what happened here. He’s caught red-handed.”
Watch the full “Morning Joe” segment in the video above.
