Thousands of protesters joined more than 100 Tax Day rallies on Saturday, calling for Donald Trump to release his taxes. In response, Kellyanne Conway—remember her?—showed that she’s still on top of Trump-style messaging, starting with an electoral votes reference and ending with an attempt to demonize protesters:
“Six months after Donald Trump won 306 electoral votes, you have people still trying to make it go away, and this is the president. This is the people’s house. This is their government,” Conway said on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends” in an interview from the south lawn of the White House.
“I would love to hear the new DNC chairman, Tom Perez, Bernie Sanders, the Democratic senator from Vermont, who are going out on the road starting today, and I would love to hear Hillary Clinton, who lost to Donald Trump handily,” she continued. “I would love to hear them come forward as leaders of the Democratic Party and tell the people to stop. They have a right to express their first amendment beliefs but at the same time, violence is not going to get us anywhere.”
To recap: Thousands of people rally across the country, and fights break out in one place between anti-Trump and pro-Trump demonstrators. So Kellyanne Conway calls for the Democratic Party to put a stop to grassroots protests. She’s totally in favor of the first amendment, though. For sure.