Kellyanne Conway said on Sunday she's a "victim of sexual assault."
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway has revealed that she is a sexual assault victim, saying on CNN Sunday: "I feel very empathetic, frankly, for victims of sexual assault, sexual harassment and rape. I'm a victim of sexual assault."
According to the Washington Examiner, the admission came as she and "State of the Union" host Jake Tapper were discussing the sexual misconduct allegations facing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Conway did not elaborate on her own story further, instead going on to say: "I don't expect Judge Kavanaugh or Jake Tapper or Jeff Flake or anybody to be held responsible for that. You have to be responsible for your own conduct. This is not Bill Cosby. Those comparisons on your network are a disgrace and the anchor should have called them out."
She then suggested partisan politics was behind the challenge Kavanaugh is facing and said the women who confronted Arizona Senator Jeff Flake about their own sexual assault should "go blame the perpetrator."
And when Tapper brought up the sexual assault allegations that have been lodged against President Trump in light of her own personal experience, Conway said sternly: "Don't conflate that with this, and certainly don't conflate it with what happened to me. It'd be a huge mistake, Jake. Let's not do it….Let's not always bring Trump into everything that happens in this universe."
Conway seemed to make some similar points last year during the POLITICO Women Rule Summit when she spoke out against what she says is a partisan bias when it comes to sexual harassment claims.
She said: "Yes, of course, I've had a 'Me too' moment, but nobody cared about that. If we're going to have an honest conversation everyone — you can't pick and choose depending on somebody's politics."
