Conway, George

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lincoln Project cofounder George Conway has jokingly offered to provide free legal services to the SuperPAC should former President Donald Trump follow through with his threat to sue the organization over an advertisement.

The “Failures” advertisement aired on Fox News last week. It accused Trump advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles of failing to foresee that President Joe Biden would drop out of the election.

“They told you that Biden should never quit — that you should spend all that time, all that money, so much money, focusing on Biden. How he’s too old,” an announcer reads during the ad. “Now it’s Harris. She’s younger than you — by a lot. Faster on her feet. Better than Biden was on camera. They were wrong. But they’re wrong a lot. Wrong that Vance would help you. You know he’s terrible. Wrong that you have the race sewn up. It’s sad, Donald. They spend more time trying to keep you under control than trying to win.”

On Friday, the Trump campaign sent the Lincoln Project a cease and desist letter, which the SuperPAC posted to Threads. Trump’s lawyer, David A. Warrington, claimed the “Failures” spot was defamatory to LaCivita, Wiles and the Trump campaign. Warrington said the ad’s claims “are a complete fabrication, and defame the Campaign’s leaders,” and “would harm the Campaign by discouraging future contributions.”

Tuesday morning the Lincoln Project confirmed that it would not be removing the “Failures” advertisement, and followed up with a new spot, “Futile.”

“This is the third time you’ve threatened to sue the Lincoln Project. This time, it’s because we told you the truth about how your campaign is failing, broken and dead in the water, wrong that you have the race sewn up. Sad, Donald. We told you, Chris and Susie made a mistake when they bragged that Biden would stay in the race. It’s embarrassing, Donald. Your whole campaign is a hot mess. You’re terrible on camera these days. You just look old, tired and [expletive] crazy America, America’s just done with you, Donald, and with the political team you have, there’s nothing you can do but, lose, lose, lose,” the announcer says in the new clip.

Conway shared “Futile” on Tuesday morning, along with a needling caption.

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despite facing four criminal indictments and a variety of civil lawsuits, Donald Trump is showing no signs of losing his frontrunner status in the 2024 GOP presidential primary. Trump leads the second-place candidate, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, by 58 percent in a Harvard University/HarrisX poll released on November 20 and by 40 percent in a NBC News poll conducted November 10-14.

Moreover, some polls are showing Trump with narrow leads in a hypothetical Trump/President Joe Biden matchup.

The fact that Trump could return to the White House in January 2025 not only worries Democrats — some conservatives are sounding the alarm as well, including three legal experts: attorney George Conway, retired Judge J. Michael Luttig and former Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-Virginia).

The three of them, The Guardian's Martin Pengelly reports, have proposed a new conservative legal group that would be called the Society for the Rule of Law Institute — which would challenge, from the right, Trump and his allies' "anti-constitutional" and "anti-democratic" actions.

In an op-ed published by the New York Times on November 21, Conway, Luttig and Comstock lament that the Federalist Society — a major right-wing legal group — "has failed to respond in this period of crisis," arguing that a non-MAGA "conservative legal movement" is badly needed.

"We need an organization of conservative lawyers committed to the foundational constitutional principles we once all agreed upon: the primacy of American democracy, the sanctity of the Constitution and the rule of law, the independence of the courts, the inviolability of elections and mutual support among those tasked with the solemn responsibility of enforcing the laws of the United States," the legal experts argue. "This new organization must step up, speak out and defend these ideals."

*Read George Conway, J. Michael Luttig and Barbara Comstock's full New York Times op-ed at this link (subscription required) and The Guardian's full report here.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/i-knew-brett-kavanaugh-during-his-years-republican-operative-don-ncna907391

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I knew Brett Kavanaugh during his years as a Republican operative. Don't let him sit on the Supreme Court.

We were part of a close circle of cynical hard-right operatives being groomed for much bigger things.

Sept. 7, 2018,

By David Brock

I used to know Brett Kavanaugh pretty well. And, when I think of Brett now, in the midst of his hearings for a lifetime appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court, all I can think of is the old "Aesop's Fables" adage: "A man is known by the company he keeps."

And that's why I want to tell any senator who cares about our democracy: Vote no.

Twenty years ago, when I was a conservative movement stalwart, I got to know Brett Kavanaugh both professionally and personally.

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Brett actually makes a cameo appearance in my memoir of my time in the GOP, "Blinded By The Right." I describe him at a party full of zealous young conservatives gathered to watch President Bill Clinton's 1998 State of the Union address — just weeks after the story of his affair with a White House intern had broken. When the TV camera panned to Hillary Clinton, I saw Brett — at the time a key lieutenant of Ken Starr, the independent counsel investigating various Clinton scandals — mouth the word "bitch."

But there's a lot more to know about Kavanaugh than just his Pavlovian response to Hillary's image. Brett and I were part of a close circle of cold, cynical and ambitious hard-right operatives being groomed by GOP elders for much bigger roles in politics, government and media. And it’s those controversial associations that should give members of the Senate and the American public serious pause.

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Call it Kavanaugh's cabal: There was his colleague on the Starr investigation, Alex Azar, now the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Mark Paoletta is now chief counsel to Vice President Mike Pence; House anti-Clinton gumshoeBarbara Comstockis now a Republican member of Congress. Future Fox News personalities Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson were there with Ann Coulter, now a best-selling author, and internet provocateur Matt Drudge.

At one time or another, each of them partied at my Georgetown townhouse amid much booze and a thick air of cigar smoke.

In a rough division of labor, Kavanaugh played the role of lawyer — one of the sharp young minds recruited by the Federalist Society to infiltrate the federal judiciary with true believers. Through that network, Kavanaugh was mentored by D.C. Appeals Court Judge Laurence Silberman, known among his colleagues for planting leaks in the press for partisan advantage.

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When, as I came to know, Kavanaugh took on the role of designated leaker to the press of sensitive information from Starr's operation, we all laughed that Larry had taught him well. (Of course, that sort of political opportunism by a prosecutor is at best unethical, if not illegal.)

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Another compatriot was George Conway (now Kellyanne's husband), who led a secretive group of right-wing lawyers — we called them "the elves" — who worked behind the scenes directing the litigation team of Paula Jones, who had sued Clinton for sexual harassment. I knew then thatinformation was flowing quietly from the Jones team via Conway to Starr's office — and also that Conway's go-to man was none other than Brett Kavanaugh.

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That critical flow of inside information allowed Starr, in effect, to set a perjury trap for Clinton, laying the foundation for a crazed national political crisis and an unjust impeachment over a consensual affair.

But the cabal's godfather was Ted Olson, the then-future solicitor general for George W. Bush and now a sainted figure of the GOP establishment(and of some liberals for his role in legalizing same-sex marriage). Olson had a largely hidden role as a consigliere to the "Arkansas Project" — a multi-million dollar dirt-digging operation on the Clintons, funded by the eccentric right-wing billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife and run through The American Spectator magazine, where I worked at the time.

Both Ted and Brett had what one could only be called an unhealthy obsession with the Clintons — especially Hillary. While Ted was pushing through the Arkansas Project conspiracy theories claiming that Clinton White House lawyer and Hillary friend Vincent Foster was murdered (he committed suicide), Brett was costing taxpayers millions by pedaling the same garbage at Starr's office.

A detailed analysis of Kavanaugh's own notes from the Starr Investigation reveals he was cherry-picking random bits of information from the Starr investigation — as well as the multiple previous investigations — attempting vainly to legitimize wild right-wing conspiracies. For years he chased down each one of them without regard to the emotional cost to Foster’s family and friends, or even common decency.

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Kavanaugh was not a dispassionate finder of fact but rather an engineer of a political smear campaign. And after decades of that, he expects people to believe he's changed his stripes.

Like millions of Americans this week, I tuned into Kavanaugh's hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee with great interest. In his opening statement and subsequent testimony, Kavanaugh presented himself as a "neutral and impartial arbiter" of the law. Judges, he said, were not players but akin to umpires — objectively calling balls and strikes. Again and again, he stressed his "independence" from partisan political influences.

But I don't need to see any documents to tell you who Kavanaugh is — because I've known him for years. And I'll leave it to all the lawyers to parse Kavanaugh's views on everything from privacy rights to gun rights. But I can promise you that any pretense of simply being a fair arbiter of the constitutionality of any policy regardless of politics is simply a pretense. He made up his mind nearly a generation ago — and, if he's confirmed, he'll have nearly two generations to impose it upon the rest of us.

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legal expert George Conway is blasting the Claremont Institute for defending John Eastman (photo, with Giuliani on Jan. 6), the man who wrote the now-infamous "Eastman Memo" which many see as instructions to then-Vice President Mike Pence on how to overturn the 2020 presidential election on January 6.

"Claremont's statement that Eastman did not seek to have Vice President Pence unilaterally determine the validity of electoral votes and overturn the election is a bald-faced, disgraceful lie," says Conway, who successfully argued a case before the U.S. Supreme Court and won a unanimous decision, and had been under consideration to be Donald Trump's solicitor general or an assistant attorney general.

Conway was referring to a statement from the Claremont Institute, the pro-Trump conservative think tank where Eastman is employed as a senior fellow. Claremont has embraced right wing extremists, granting fellowships to Fox News' Laura Ingraham and Mark Levin, Daily Wire's Ben Shapiro, CRT conspiracist Christopher Rufo, and even Pizzagate conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec.

The Washington Post Monday accused Claremont of trying to "whitewash" Eastman's "road map for overturning Trump's loss."

Eastman, who happens to be the chairman of the nearly-defunct anti-LGBTQ group National Organization For Marriage (NOM) and supported Uganda's efforts to jail LGBTQ people for life, was forced to "retire" as a law professor after blowback from speaking at Trump's pre-insurrection rally, ginning up the troops, and falsely claiming Trump had won the election.

In its statement defending Eastman today, Claremont decried "a recent combined disinformation, de-platforming, and ostracism campaign," also known as holding Eastman accountable by using his own words.

Here's Conway's tweet...

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axios: Leonard Leo attacks George Conway's "Checks and Balances" group

beware anecdotal wishful straw grabbing, domestic drama, geo c constant on AN b/c early few never trump, plus added frission of married to KA

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https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2020/05/lincoln-project-capitalizes-on-trump-rage

esident Donald Trump is directing his rage at a new super PAC ad that accuses him of ignoring the coronavirus that has now killed more than 70,000 Americans.

The Lincoln Project, a super PAC launched by prominent anti-Trump Republicans, aired an ad this week on Fox News that trashes Trump over his response to COVID-19. Trump responded with a tweetstorm ripping the group and its members, with much of his ire directed at George Conway, husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway.

That response seems to be exactly what The Lincoln Project was looking for, as it reportedly raised $1 million shortly after Trump slammed the group on Tuesday. The Republican super PAC has amassed a substantial war chest, but it has come under scrutiny for funneling money to its advisory board members and spending relatively little airing political ads to influence voters. The group also hides some of its vendors by stealthily paying subcontractors, making it difficult to follow the money

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The Lincoln Project reported spending nearly $1.4 million through March. Almost all of that money went to the group’s board members and firms run by them. The super PAC spent nearly $1 million with Summit Strategic Communications, a firm run by Lincoln Project treasurer Reed Galen. Another $215,000 went to Tusk Digital, a company run by Lincoln Project adviser Ron Steslow. Both companies received little business from other federal committees since Trump’s inauguration.

That seven-figure spending, noted earlier by campaign finance expert Rob Pyers on Twitter, comes as the group spends relatively little on direct political activity. The super PAC shelled out $364,000 to Galen and Steslow’s companies to run opposing Trump and his Republican allies in Congress. But just 52 percent of that money went to buying and placing ads, with the rest spent on producing the ads themselves.

That’s an unusually high rate for production costs compared to most super PACs. At least 2 percent of independent expenditures from pro-Trump super PAC America First Action this cycle were labeled as production costs, with the rest going to ad buying. And that group has come under fire from Republican operatives for spending donors’ money generously.

The Lincoln Project spent more than $19,000 opposing Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.). But just one-quarter of that money went to placing the ad online with the rest spent on production costs. In response to the group’s attacks on Senate Republicans, the National Republican Senatorial Committee called The Lincoln Project a “scam PAC” and accused its members of “lining their own pockets.” The Lincoln Project did not respond to a request for comment.

Still, Federal Election Commission filings don’t tell the whole story about The Lincoln Project’s spending. The group buys its television ads through a little-known Maryland firm called Ashton Media, according to OpenSecrets political ads database, but doesn’t disclose paying that firm in FEC filings.

Another firm, Howe Creative, appears to produce some of The Lincoln Project’s ads, but also isn’t listed as being paid by the super PAC. This suggests that Galen and Steslow’s companies are likely paying these firms as subcontractors. This process is also used by the Trump campaign to hide the specifics of its spending.

Ashton Media was incorporated in March 2019 by Republican ad buyer Steve Hazleton, according to Maryland state records. Hazleton’s firm, SRH Media, was paid by two Republican committees this cycle, including former White House physician Ronny Jackson’s unsuccessful House campaign in Texas. Howe Creative most recently purchased ads for a super PAC supporting Democrat Dan McCready in last year’s expensive special election in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District.

Raking in small donor dollars

The Lincoln Project has spent over $276,000 running ads on Facebook. However many of these ads are geared toward Roughly 59 percent of the Lincoln Project’s $2.5 million haul this cycle comes from small donors giving $200 or less. That significant small-dollar proportion could be partially due to the popularity of the group’s members on Twitter. The Lincoln Project’s most prominent voices on social media include Conway, along with former GOP strategists Steve Schmidt and Rick Wilson. Those anti-Trump Republicans have promoted the group on high-profile cable channels like MSNBC and have authored opinion pieces in major news outlets including the Washington Post and the Daily Beast.

It’s rare that a super PAC gets more than half of its funds from small donors. Of groups raising over $1 million this cycle, only 29 have done so. At least a dozen of those are so-called scam PACs that make their money by sending out automated robocalls to older Americans and spend next-to-nothing on actual political activity. Several other small-dollar super PACs are pro-Trump groups that have not received the president’s stamp of approval. Some of those groups have been accused of greatly inflating their political spending totals while funneling donor money to closely-tied vendors.

Only a handful of donors have given big money to The Lincoln Project. Its top donor is Silicon Valley angel investor Ron Conway, who gave $50,000. He also contributed to Democrats’ Senate Majority PAC and dozens of Democratic lawmakers this election cycle.

Other big donors include hedge fund manager Andrew Redleaf, a traditionally Republican donor who contributed $25,000, and Walmart heir Christy Walton, who gave $20,000. Walton also contributed six figures to Shared Purpose PAC, a super PAC formed to back former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate John Hickenlooper.

Ilma Hasan contributed to this report.

https://www.alternet.org/2020/01/will-republicans-stand-for-gaslighting-or-reality-george-conway-highlights-moment-of-reckoning-for-senate-gop/

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Will Republicans ‘stand for gaslighting or reality?’: George Conway highlights ‘moment of reckoning’ for Senate GOP

Written by Tom Boggioni / Raw Story January 26, 2020

Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union,” conservative attorney George Conway launched a broadside against Republican senators for their conduct in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump, saying they are selling lies to the public.

Speaking with host Jake Tapper, Conway — the husband of White House adviser Kellyanne Conway — painted a withering portrait of the GOP that is hellbent on acquitting the president of obvious impeachable crimes.

“I’m deeply saddened,” Conway began. “It is very upsetting and this is a moment of reckoning not just for the country and the rule of law and the constitution, but it is a specific day of reckoning for the Republican senators who took this oath, and the Republican Party generally, are they going to stand for lies instead of truth?”

“Are they going to stand for gaslighting instead of reality? Are they going to just do the bidding of this one man and put his interests over those of the country? That is what this is about,” he added.

Watch below:

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George Conway’s anti-Trump group skewers Susan Collins’ complicity in blistering new ad

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She’s in a cult’: Report finds George and Kellyanne Conway are ‘increasingly distant’ — and Jared Kushner wants to push her out

White House adviser Kellyanne Conway and her husband, conservative attorney…

geo regular on AN esp in run up to impeach; some of it odd couple madeline rajin cajun, part for novelty/anomaly of principled gop ~ trump, part grasping at straws/hope?

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kellyanne Conway launches sexist attack on Nancy Pelosi — says she only backed impeachment because of ‘the men around her’

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https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/03/28/kellyanne-conways-husband-frequently-targets-president-trump-on-twitter/

Dinner conversation at the Conway household might be a little awkward.

Corporate lawyer George Conway has unleashed about 100 tweets and retweets this month critical of President Donald Trump, who happens to be the boss of Conway’s wife, Kellyanne.

Yes, that Kellyanne Conway, who helped bring Trump into the White House in 2016 as his campaign manager, and whose current job as White House counsel seems to consists of defending Trump no matter what.

Kellyanne Conway has been known to be the consummate spin doctor, but her husband as been doing some counter-spinning of late.

“This is flabbergasting,” he said in a tweet Wednesday as he linked to a New York Times story about Trump discussing pardons for two former aides.

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/19/politics/kellyanne-conway-husband-trump-role/

President Trump is expected to nominate the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, to run the Justice Department's civil division, two sources familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN.

If confirmed by the Senate, George Conway would lead an office that would handle legal challenges to major Trump administration initiatives, such as the controversial travel ban.

The Wall Street Journal first reported that Conway -- a corporate lawyer -- was expected to be tapped for the position.Conway had previously been considered for the post of US solicitor general, according to sources who spoke to CNN in December.

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President Trump is expected to nominate the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, to run the Justice Department's civil division, two sources familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN.

If confirmed by the Senate, George Conway would lead an office that would handle legal challenges to major Trump administration initiatives, such as the controversial travel ban.

High-profile clients

George Conway is a partner at the corporate law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where he has worked for 28 years. He is currently a partner in the firm's litigation department where, according to the firm's website, he has honed his talents in securities, contract and antitrust litigation.

Throughout his career, he has represented high-profile clients, including the National Football League and cigarette giant Philip Morris, which he represented in a successful defamation lawsuit against ABC News.

Conway already has stood before the Supreme Court, arguing a case before it in 2010, Morrison v. National Australia Bank.

Paula Jones case

Conway graduated from Yale Law School in 1987 after attending Harvard College. He also clerked for US Circuit Judge Ralph Winter, Jr. of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, who was nominated to the court by President Ronald Reagan.

He was part of the team of lawyers in the 1990s who represented Paula Jones in her sexual harassment lawsuit against then-President Bill Clinton. He helped write the Supreme Court brief in the case that would establish a legal precedent for a sitting president to be sued in civil court.

CNN's Jeremy Diamond and Susannah Cullinane contributed to this report.

George T. Conway III has been a partner in the Litigation Department of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz since January 1994. He joined the firm in September 1988. His litigation experience has included a variety of high-profile matters spanning many areas of law in federal and state courts throughout the country. He has extensive experience insecurities litigation, mergers and acquisitions litigation, contract litigation, antitrust litigation,and other litigation, both at the trial and appellate levels.

In the area of securities litigation, he briefed and argued the case for respondents in Morrison* v.*National Australia Bank, in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 does not apply extraterritorially to claims of so-called "foreign-cubed" plaintiffs -- foreign investors who purchased securities of foreign issuers on foreign exchanges. He also recently argued and won a precedent-setting motion to dismiss so-called "foreign-squared" claims against EADS brought by American plaintiffs who purchased that foreign company's shares on foreign exchanges.

Mr. Conway also recently argued and won an important appeal under the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 on behalf of the Swiss installation artist Christoph Büchel in the artist’s highly publicized dispute with the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. He also successfully represented the Chief Judge of the State of New York and the New York Unified Court System in historic constitutional litigation over the State of New York’s extended failure to adjust judicial salaries. Mr. Conway also played a substantial role in the successful defense of Kenneth Langone’s Invemed Associates in a disciplinary proceeding before the NASD (now FINRA) that resulted in what the New York Times called a "*withering," "high-profile defeat*" for the regulators.

Mr. Conway’s work in mergers and acquisitions litigation includes the representation of Rohm and Haas Co. and ADVO, Inc., in, respectively, Rohm and Haas v.Dow Chemical Co., and Valassis Communications* v.*ADVO, two Delaware Chancery Court cases involving claims to enforce merger agreements, as well as two historic cases in the development of Delaware corporate law governing mergers and acquisitions, QVC*v.*Paramount Communications and Paramount Communications* v.*Time Inc. and Warner Communications, in addition to many other cases involving contests for corporate control in the Delaware courts and elsewhere over the past two decades.

In addition, Mr. Conway played a substantial role in prosecuting one of the most prominent defamation cases in recent memory (Philip Morris v. American Broadcasting Cos.). He has extensive experience in merger-related private antitrust litigation and government antitrust investigations, including the defense of Cardinal Health in the preliminary injunction proceedings before the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in FTC v.Cardinal Health. He also represented theNational Football League in trademark and antitrust litigation against the Dallas Cowboys in NFL Properties* v.*Dallas Cowboys Football Club. His pro bono work includes his successful representation in the Second Circuit of crime victims and public-interest groups as amici curiae in opposing claims that federal law requires the State of New York to allow felons to vote while still incarcerated.

Mr. Conway is a graduate ofHarvard College, where in 1984 he received an A.B. magna cum laude in Biochemical Sciences. He received his J.D. in 1987 from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. In 1987 and 1988, he served as a law clerk to Circuit Judge Ralph K. Winter, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

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George T. Conway III: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Published 1:33 pm EST, August 20, 2016 Updated 12:18 am EST, October 9, 2016 21 Comments By Jessica McBride 127.6k

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Kellyanne Conway’s husband is a New York lawyer who was involved in Paula Jones’ lawsuit against Bill Clinton and belongs to a conservative legal society.

George T. Conway III has also been involved in other prominent lawsuits, including those involving the tobacco industry.

Kellyanne, 49, was named Donald Trump’s new campaign manager and, soon after, the candidate went to Louisiana to comfort flooding victims and admitted he doesn’t always say the right things.

Kellyanne said that comment that was “all him,” although it’s been widely reported that she was brought on board to improve Trump’s image with women. With Trump’s latest controversy over lewd comments he made to former Access Hollywood host Billy Bush, she has her hands full.

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Kellyanne Conway ? @KellyannePolls

Our own "Prince George" at 2 yrs old, with twin Claudia and Welsh Corgi (Queen's favorite dog) #royalbaby

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Kellyanne is regarded as a conservative “gender expert,” who has been involved for years in Republican politics and polling, especially regarding trends involving women.

Who is her husband, George T. Conway III?

Here’s what you need to know:

Kellyanne & George Conway Have Four Children & Attend Baseball Games With Them

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Kellyanne Conway ? @KellyannePolls

Perfect #Yankees game. 6-run come from behind 9th inning, all 4 kids here & waitress asked for my ID #NewYork

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The Conways have four children, said CNN. Kellyanne Conway has posted photos of George and their children on social media. Some photos show them at baseball games.

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Kellyanne Conway ? @KellyannePolls

#HappyFathersDay esp. To @gtconway3d & this little miracle's dad. just came home after 5 months in hospital #Prolife

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One of their daughters spent five months in the hospital at birth.

Kellyanne once asked her daughter, Claudia, 11, to change out of a turquoise shirt on Memorial Day and into a blue one because “it wasn’t a shade available to Betsy Ross when she stayed up through the night sewing the damn flag,” according to The Las Vegas Review Journal, which described her as trying to help Trump improve his image with women.

George Conway has a Twitter page, but he hasn’t posted on it since 2015, and it contains mostly retweets about random issues. One post he made:

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George Conway @gtconway3d

Must be fun in the elevators here ...

1:04 PM - 14 Aug 2014

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He also posted about a Malaysian airlines crash and Jamie-Lynn Sigler’s ex-husband.

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George Conway Was Part of a Secret Group of Lawyers Who Helped Paula Jones & Was Rumored to Be a Source For Matt Drudge

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Kellyanne Conway ? @KellyannePolls

Justice Scalia inspiring 10-yr old Claudia last year after she asked should find a "happier" profession than the law

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Bloomberg wrote of Kellyanne: “Her husband, George T. Conway III, a lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, was behind some of the most bitter lawsuits against Bill Clinton in the 1990s and stories that were promoted via the Drudge Report.”

One of those cases involved the sexual harassment case filed by Paula Jones against the president.

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/24/us/president-s-trial-lawsuit-quietly-team-lawyers-kept-paula-jones-s-case-alive.html

The New York Times said George Conway was “a New York lawyer educated at Yale” who shared a “low view of President Clinton. When the Jones case led to Ms. (Monica) Lewinsky, (another lawyer) and Mr. Conway searched for a new lawyer for Mrs. (Linda) Tripp.” The article was headlined, “Quietly, a Team of Lawyers Kept Paula Jones Case Alive.”

The Times added, “Mr. Conway wanted his role kept hidden as well, because his New York law firm, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, included influential Democrats like Bernard W. Nussbaum, a former White House counsel. Mr. Conway’s name does not appear on any billing records.”

The Observer claimed that Bill Clinton’s lawyer, Bob Bennett “was interested in evidence of possible collusion between the Jones lawyers and the Whitewater independent counsel, Kenneth Starr, stretching back well before the current White House crisis. After all, Mr. Starr and Mr. Conway have represented Philip Morris Companies in tobacco litigation at the same time, and both simultaneously worked on briefs for Ms. Jones arguing against Presidential immunity from a civil lawsuit such as hers.”

The Observer also claimed that George Conway was Matt Drudge’s source for a Jones’ claim about curvature in the president’s anatomy, but the site also quoted Drudge as denying he had ever met Conway. There is no evidence that Conway was in fact a Drudge source.

In an email to AmericanPolitics, Conway also denied any connections to Richard Mellon Scaife, the billionaire who financed some conservative efforts to expose Clinton’s problems, writing, “I have never met Mr. Scaife. I have never met any member of his family. I have never represented Mr. Scaife or his holdings. I have no connections whatsoever with Mr. Scaife, his holdings or his family.”

In an interview with reporters from the site, Conway said it was “ridiculous” to tie him to Drudge.

AmericanPolitics claimed Conway’s income from the law firm where he works in New York is at least $1 million a year. The Observer called Conway a “million-dollar-a-year partner.”

George Conway Has Worked For a Major Tobacco Company on a Lawsuit & Belongs to The Federalist Society

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Kellyanne Conway ? @KellyannePolls

#openingday fun. #Yankees fans in #Phillies camouflage 2 root against #redsox. saw 1st grand slam of season! #mlb

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Conway’s New York law firm bio says he “has been a partner in the Litigation Department of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz since January 1994. He joined the firm in September 1988.”

The law firm describes his litigation experience as including “a variety of high-profile matters spanning many areas of law in federal and state courts throughout the country. He has extensive experience in securities litigation, mergers and acquisitions litigation, contract litigation, antitrust litigation, and other litigation, both at the trial and appellate levels.”

One of those high-profile suits involved representing tobacco company Philip Morris. “Mr. Conway played a substantial role in prosecuting one of the most prominent defamation cases in recent memory (Philip Morris v. American Broadcasting Cos.),” said the law firm.

The New York Times said of that suit’s result, “In an extraordinary act of contrition, ABC News publicly apologized last night for asserting in a news program that two giant tobacco companies add extra nicotine to their cigarettes.” That apology was criticized by anti-smoking advocates, with The Times quoting one professor as saying, “Philip Morris has bullied a major television network into apologizing for what was essentially a true story.”

George Conway’s law firm says he also “represented the National Football League in trademark and antitrust litigation against the Dallas Cowboys” and “won an important appeal under the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 on behalf of the Swiss installation artist Christoph Büchel in the artist’s highly publicized dispute with the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.”

The Federalist Society, a group of conservative lawyers, has an experts bio page devoted to George Conway on its site.

In the interview with the AmericanPolitics site, George Conway said, “I’m a member of the Federalist Society, but I mean . . but what’s that got to do with anything?”

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George Conway “is a graduate of Harvard College, where in 1984 he received an A.B. magna cum laude in Biochemical Sciences,” says his bio. “He received his JD in 1987 from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal.”

In 1987 and 1988, “he served as a law clerk to Circuit Judge Ralph K. Winter, Jr.of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.”

Winter, a former Yale Law School professor, was nominated to the federal bench by President Ronald Reagan.

In 2008, Conway co-authored a journal article making the case against felon voting. The Federalist Society site has posted audio of George Conway speaking on a panel about felon voting.

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OpenSecrets.org says that George Conway is a frequent donor to Republican candidates, including Rudy Giuliani, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, and Newt Gingrich, and The New Jersey Republican State Committee. The Conways live in New Jersey. In 2015, George donated money to Ted Cruz in the Republican primary for president.

Kellyanne is the CEO and president of the polling company, inc./WomanTrend, which is “a privately-held, woman-owned corporation founded in 1995. The firm is headquartered in Washington, DC and maintains an office in New York,” said CNBC.

Kellyanne Conway’s company bio says “The RNC tasked Kellyanne with helping to defeat the so-called ‘War on Women.’” One division of her polling company, WomanTrend, tracks “the social, cultural, financial, professional and health trends influencing—and being influenced by—women,” the company website says. She has worked for many prominent Republican politicians over the years.

Jessica McBride is a Heavy contributor. She was a crime, government, and breaking news reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and reporter for the Waukesha Freeman newspaper. Her award-winning work has appeared in numerous magazine, newspaper, and online publications. She has also appeared as a crime reporter on Investigation Discovery Channel, History Channel, and Oxygen Channel. She can be reached by email at jessica.mcbride@heavy.com.

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Although Ms. Jones never met him or knew he had worked on her behalf, Mr. Marcus drafted legal documents and was involved in many of the important strategic decisions in her lawsuit, according to billing records and interviews with other lawyers who worked on the case. As much as any of Ms. Jones's attorneys of record, Mr. Marcus helped keep Ms. Jones's case alive in the courts.

Mr. Marcus recruited others to assist his efforts, including several friends from the University of Chicago Law School. One of those who was approached, Paul Rosenzweig, briefly considered doing work for Ms. Jones in 1994, according to billing records and interviews, but decided not to. In November 1997, Mr. Rosenzweig joined Mr. Starr's office, where he and Mr. Marcus had several telephone conversations about the Jones case.

It was Mr. Rosenzweig who fielded a ''heads-up'' phone call from Mr. Marcus on Jan. 8, 1998, that first tipped off Mr. Starr's office about Monica S. Lewinsky and Linda R. Tripp. The tip was not mentioned in the Starr report, though the information revived a moribund Whitewater investigation that would not have produced, it now seems, an impeachment referral to Congress.

Mr. Marcus did make his views known publicly last month when he wrote an impassioned commentary in The Washington Timesurging the impeachment of Mr. Clinton. ''The cancer is deadly,'' Mr. Marcus wrote. ''It, and its cause, must be removed.'' He identified himself in the newspaper simply as ''a lawyer in Philadelphia.''

In his long efforts to promote Ms. Jones's lawsuit, and in helping Mrs. Tripp find her way to Mr. Starr, Mr. Marcus found other allies, including another Chicago law classmate, Richard W. Porter. Mr. Porter had worked as an aide to former Vice President Dan Quayle and was a partner of Mr. Starr's at the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis, based in Chicago.

George T. Conway 3d, a New York lawyer educated at Yale, shared Mr. Marcus's low view of President Clinton. When the Jones case led to Ms. Lewinsky, Mr. Marcus and Mr. Conway searched for a new lawyer for Mrs. Tripp. Mr. Marcus and Mr. Porter helped arrange for Mrs. Tripp to take her explosive allegations to Mr. Starr.

Their efforts are only now coming into focus, as a few of their associates have begun to discuss their activities and their names appear repeatedly in the final legal bills submitted by the original Jones legal team. Messrs. Marcus, Porter and Conway did not respond to numerous requests for comment.

In their arguments before the Senate this week, the President's lawyers said that there was collusion between Mr. Starr's office, Mrs. Tripp and the lawyers for Ms. Jones in the weeks leading up to the President's deposition last January. If witnesses are called in the Senate impeachment trial, the President's lawyers may explore the issue further, several Clinton legal advisers said.

Charles G. Bakaly 3d, the spokesman for Mr. Starr, denied there was collusion between the independent counsel's office and the Jones team, including Mr. Marcus. ''There was absolutely no conspiracy between the Jones lawyers and our office,'' Mr. Bakaly said. ''Judge Starr has testified to the circumstances as to how this matter came to our attention, and the actions that we took thereafter.''

Mr. Clinton said in his grand jury testimony in August that his political enemies ''just thought they would take a wrecking ball to me and see if they could do some damage.'' That wrecking ball was wielded by Mr. Marcus and his colleagues, who managed to drive Paula Corbin Jones's allegation of sexual misconduct into the courtroom and beyond.

Three Classmates At Chicago Law School

Mr. Marcus, Mr. Porter and Mr. Rosenzweig were classmates at the University of Chicago Law School, graduating in 1986. Mr. Conway met the others through the Jones case. Some of the lawyers were also involved with the Federalist Society, a legal group that includes conservative and libertarian luminaries like Mr. Starr, Robert H. Bork and Richard Epstein, a University of Chicago law professor.

Mr. Porter was the most overtly political member of the group, having worked on the staff of Vice President Quayle and on the Bush-Quayle campaign, where he did opposition research.

Mr. Porter was also an associate of Peter W. Smith, 62, a Chicago financier who was once the chairman of College Young Republicans and a major donor to Gopac, a conservative political group affiliated with former Speaker Newt Gingrich. Beginning in 1992, Mr. Smith spent more than $80,000 to finance anti-Clinton research in an effort to persuade the mainstream press to cover Mr. Clinton's sex life. Among others, his efforts involved David Brock, the journalist who first mentioned the name ''Paula'' in an article on Mr. Clinton.

Mr. Smith declined an interview request.

In 1993, Mr. Brock said, Mr. Smith helped introduce him to the Arkansas state troopers who accused Mr. Clinton of using them to procure women when he was Governor of Arkansas. Mr. Brock wrote an article based on the troopers' account of Mr. Clinton's sexual escapades that was published in the January 1994 issue of The American Spectator,a conservative magazine. According to Mr. Brock, Mr. Smith wanted to establish a fund for the troopers, in case they suffered retribution. Mr. Brock said he opposed payments because they would undermine the troopers' credibility.

To allay his concerns, Mr. Brock said, Mr. Smith urged him to speak to Mr. Porter, who was then working at Kirkland & Ellis, the Chicago law firm that employed Mr. Starr in its Washington office. Mr. Brock said he had hoped his talk with Mr. Porter would put an end to any planned payments to the troopers, but Mr. Smith did pay them and their lawyers $22,600.

In 1992, Mr. Smith also paid Mr. Brock $5,000 to research another bit of Arkansas sex lore regarding Mr. Clinton, a rumor that has since proved to be baseless. Mr. Brock did not pursue an article.

Mr. Brock's trooper article in The American Spectator mentioned a woman identified as ''Paula,'' and in May 1994, Ms. Jones filed her lawsuit against President Clinton. Ms. Jones's lawyers of record were from the Washington area, Gilbert K. Davis and Joseph Cammarata, whom Mr. Marcus had helped recruit.

Lawyers of Record Had Help From Start

The Davis and Cammarata billing records show that from their earliest involvement in the case, they were consulting with Mr. Marcus and Mr. Porter. Mr. Conway also helped draft briefs, Mr. Cammarata said.

''Marcus was involved,'' Mr. Cammarata said, ''but he insisted that he not be identified. But that was fine with me. We were just two guys involved in the middle of a world war. We welcomed his help.''

No one was more important to the Jones case than Mr. Marcus. Besides helping to write several important briefs, Mr. Marcus spoke numerous times at the most critical moments in the case with Mr. Cammarata and Mr. Davis, offering legal advice that Mr. Cammarata said was ''vital.''

According to the billing records, Mr. Porter also offered ''legal strategy'' and once wrote a memo on ''investigative leads'' that might embarrass the President.

''Porter was a cheerleader,'' Mr. Cammarata said. ''He used to call up and say, 'Maybe we can find you some money.' ''

One of President Clinton's legal advisers said he noticed a marked difference in quality between the routine legal pleadings filed by the Cammarata and Davis team, and the polished, scholarly briefs written by the shadow legal team headed by Mr. Marcus and Mr. Conway.

Mr. Marcus, meanwhile, was so successful at keeping the extent of his role a secret that even Mr. Cammarata only found out recently that Mr. Marcus had trouble finding lawyers to agree to represent Ms. Jones. ''No one wanted to touch this case,'' Mr. Cammarata said. ''No one wanted to take on the President of the United States.''

Another friend of Mr. Marcus also briefly considered assisting the Jones lawyers.

In June 1994, Mr. Rosenzweig, a lawyer at a small law firm in Washington, with experience working in the Justice Department, expressed interest in doing legal work on behalf of Ms. Jones, but he did none, lawyers involved in the case said.

Law Firm Included Influential Democrats

Mr. Conway wanted his role kept hidden as well, because his New York law firm, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, included influential Democrats like Bernard W. Nussbaum, a former White House counsel. Mr. Conway's name does not appear on any billing records.

Although the billing records show communication between Mr. Porter and the Jones lawyers from 1994 to 1997, he denied in a written statement last fall doing legal work for Ms. Jones.

Because Mr. Porter is a partner at the firm where Mr. Starr worked until he took a leave of absence last August, any role played by Mr. Porter in the Jones case could have posed a conflict of interest for Mr. Starr once he became independent counsel. Mr. Starr has said he did not discuss the Jones case with Mr. Porter.

Mr. Starr has acknowledged contacts with Mr. Davis, specifically six telephone discussions the two had in 1994, before Mr. Starr became independent counsel. In fact, Mr. Starr has been criticized for not disclosing the phone conversations to Attorney General Janet Reno when he was seeking to expand his investigation to the Lewinsky matter. Mr. Starr has said it did not occur to him to mention the conversations because he did not do work on the Jones case and simply offered his publicly stated position on a point of constitutional law that Presidents are not immune from civil lawsuits.

Before the Jones lawyers argued before the Supreme Court in May 1996, paving the way to the 9-0 decision that the President was not immune from civil lawsuits, Mr. Conway went to Washington for a practice argument.He joined Mr. Davis, Mr. Cammarata,Judge Robert Bork and Theodore Olson, a Washington lawyer and friend of Mr. Starr, at the Army-Navy Club here.

When Mr. Cammarata and Mr. Davis quit as Ms. Jones's lawyers after she failed to reach a settlement with President Clinton's lawyers in 1997, Mr. Marcus and his colleagues established ties to her new lawyers at the Dallas law firm of Rader, Campbell, Fisher & Pyke and the Rutherford Institute of Charlottesville, Va., which helped pay her legal expenses.

In November 1997, Mr. Rosenzweig went to work as a prosecutor in Mr. Starr's office. And from November to January, Mr. Rosenzweig spoke several times by telephone with Mr. Marcus and discussed the Jones case, a lawyer with knowledge of the conversations said. But Mr. Bakaly, a spokesman for Mr. Starr, said that Mr. Rosenzweig did not tell any of his colleagues about what he learned about developments in the Jones case.

By this time, Mrs. Tripp was cooperating with the Jones lawyers. She was also taping her conversations with Ms. Lewinsky, which her friend, Lucianne Goldberg, a Manhattan literary agent, had incorrectly assured her was legal. In December, Mrs. Tripp became frantic that she might be prosecuted because such taping is illegal in Maryland, where Mrs. Tripp lives. Mrs. Tripp and Ms. Goldberg thought of a possible solution: perhaps she could receive immunity from prosecution from Mr. Starr.

Ms. Goldberg called Mr. Smith, the Chicago financier, and Mr. Porter for advice on how Mrs. Tripp might approach Mr. Starr. In a teleconference during the first week of January 1998, Ms. Goldberg talked to Mr. Porter and Mr. Marcus. Meanwhile, Mr. Marcus sought new lawyers for Mrs. Tripp. Mr. Conway suggested an old friend, James Moody, a Washington lawyer and fellow Federalist Society member, whom Mrs. Tripp retained.

Because he was Mr. Starr's former law partner, Mr. Porter did not want to be the first one to call the independent counsel's office on behalf of Mrs. Tripp. So Mr. Marcus made the call to Mr. Rosenzweig.

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