Kellyanne Conway Compares Trump to Martin Luther King Jr., Says President’s Impeachment Wasn’t ‘Within Dr. King’s Vision’ – By Jason Lemon (Newsweek) / Jan 20 2020
White House senior counselor Kellyanne Conway argued on Monday that Donald Trump and Martin Luther King Jr. “agreed” on many things, while suggesting that the prominent Civil Rights leader would have opposed the president’s impeachment and removal from office.
Conway’s comments came as the U.S. remember’s the iconic activist on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a holiday in memory of his legacy.
The president “agrees with many of the things that Dr. Martin Luther King stood for and agreed with for many years, including unity and equality, and he’s not the one trying to tear the country apart through an impeachment process,” Conway told reporters at the White House. Continuing, she criticized Democrats, calling the impeachment “shameful.”
“I don’t think it was within Dr. King’s vision to have Americans drag through a process where the president is not going to be removed from office,” the close Trump adviser added.
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