Politics Kellyanne Conway's husband says she's an 'enabler' of 'criminal' Trump

George Conway, the husband of top White House adviser Kellyanne Conway, said on Friday that his wife was an "enabler" and "cheerleader" for President Trump, who George Conway has repeatedly described as mentally ill and accused of criminal conduct.

© Provided by Reuters News & Media Inc. GEORGE CONWAY, VOCAL TRUMP CRITIC WHO IS MARRIED TO TRUMP SENIOR ADVISER KELLYANNE CONWAY: "It's the moment," Conway told MSNBC News. "This is about putting the country, the law, truth above partisanship," he said, calling Republican lawmakers' behavior "appalling." Georgetown Law/Handout via REUTERS

When someone tweeted those labels about his wife, George Conway responded: "she's both."

Tense TV: CNN’s Blitzer asks Kellyanne Conway about husband

Kellyanne Conway told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that he embarrassed himself following a tense exchange Thursday where he asked the White House counselor to respond to her husband’s criticism of President Donald Trump on television. Lawyer George Conway has frequently attacked his wife’s boss on social media. MSNBC brought him into the studio Wednesday to serve as an analyst during its coverage of the House impeachment hearings. Blitzer,Lawyer George Conway has frequently attacked his wife’s boss on social media. MSNBC brought him into the studio Wednesday to serve as an analyst during its coverage of the House impeachment hearings.

Conway ’ s defense of her boss comes as Trump has spent the past two days ripping her husband on Twitter. While the president has generally restrained from attacking George In the interview with POLITICO on Wednesday, Kellyanne Conway said Trump has treated her with the utmost respect.

Kellyanne Conway , counselor to President Trump , at the White House on Monday. Ms. Conway ’ s husband has long been an outspoken opponent of Aides have been pressing Mr. Trump to simply ignore Mr. Conway , who in a phone interview on Tuesday said he viewed it as a “badge of honor” to

The Twitter user was responding to George Conway's previous tweet predicting that people would come to see Trump as both a "psychologically unwell man" and a "criminal."

Kellyanne Conway did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment.

The tweets were the latest in a series indicating tension between one of the president's top advisers and her husband.

George Conway was responding to President Trump's Friday appearance on "Fox & Friends." During that appearance, Trump said: "Kellyanne is great but she's married to a total whack job." Although the pair's marriage has come up multiple times in the press, Friday's interview included some of the most direct remarks by the president and George Conway on his marriage.

George Conway and Trump Jr. trade personal insults during impeachment hearing

Conservative commentator George Conway and Donald Trump Jr. squared off via Twitter during Marie Yovanovitch's public impeachment hearing Friday. © Getty Images George Conway and Trump Jr. trade personal insults during impeachment hearing Trump Jr., son of President Trump, was unimpressed with the witnesses, tweeting: "America hired @realDonaldTrump to fire people like the first three witnesses we've seen. Career government bureaucrats and nothing more."America hired @realDonaldTrump to fire people like the first three witnesses we've seen. Career government bureaucrats and nothing more.- Donald Trump Jr.

Kellyanne Conway , in case you have spent the last few years on another planet, is a White House counselor to Trump . Kellyanne Conway , on the other hand, has been singing from the Trump playbook on the Mueller investigation. "This is just a witch hunt," Conway said in a July interview on

George Conway , husband of Kellyanne Conway , calls Trump a racist in op-ed. More:Donald Trump aide Kellyanne Conway becomes latest to defy congressional subpoena. She appeared to bristle at the question about her husband and said , "respectfully, I'm not going to run around pointing

Trump, for example, suggested to Fox News that Kellyanne Conway was responsible for her husband's alleged mental instability.

"She must have done some number on him ... I don't know what Kellyanne did to that guy because I don't even know him ... She must have done some bad things to him because that guy is crazy."

The exchange came after weeks of controversy surrounding the couple. After a Washington Examiner reporter wrote about their relationship last month, Kellyanne Conway unloaded on the reporter in a phone call and claimed that her husband "gets his power through me." After the audio of that conversation surfaced, George Conway tweeted ominiously about knowing "narcissism."

Weeks later, George Conway appeared on MSNBC, where he criticized his wife's boss. When CNN's Wolf Blitzer commented to Kellyanne Conway a day later that she had "issues" in her marriage, she shot back at him: "I think you embarrassed yourself."

“I don’t want to talk about your marriage… I want to talk about a substantive point that your husband, George Conway, made. He was on television all day yesterday during the first day of the impeachment hearings,” Blitzer responded.

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The CNN anchor began to introduce a clip of George Conway’s MSNBC appearance when he was cut off.

“Before you play the clip, which I haven’t seen, why?" Conway asked. "And why are you doing that? I’m just curious,”

Fox News' Brian Flood contributed to this report.