Conway refuses to answer whether Trump walked in on teen beauty queensonald Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway on Wednesday refused to answer questions about allegations that Trump walked into the dressing room while Miss Teen USA contestants, some as young as 15, were changing.
Conway repeatedly tussled with CNN’s Brianna Keilar, accusing the network of unfair coverage, as she tried to avoid weighing in on the appropriateness of Trump’s past words and actions.
BuzzFeed reported earlier Wednesday about four women who competed in the 1997 contest and described how Trump intruded upon the dressing room.
Keilar also played an audio recording of Trump from a 2005 interview with Howard Stern in which he describes a similar narrative to the accusations leveled against him.
“I am allowed to go in because I am the owner of the pageant,” he can be heard saying, later adding, “They're standing there with no clothes. Is everybody okay? You see these incredible looking women. I sort of get away with things like that.”
Conway denied knowledge that any such thing happened. “You want me to comment on something he said to Howard Stern in 15 seconds 10 years ago and that somehow I am an expert on it,” she said.
As Keilar tried to press Conway on the issue, Trump’s campaign manager repeatedly accused CNN of refusing to cover negative news about Clinton, and focusing on negative stories revolving around her candidate.
Conway lightly defended the candidate by saying, “Well, no, he didn't say -- what she described was pretty graphic and detailed. So let's not conflate the two. I heard what she said and I heard what he said.”
She continued, “And the fact is that all you want to do, it seems, is talk about something he said 10, 15 years ago and, yet, we never, ever want to talk, particularly CNN when we offered up these women to you.”
“We never want to talk to the women shamed and blamed by Hillary Clinton because they had sexual contact with her husband. Some consensual long-time affairs including in the white house and others victims of predatory conduct,” she argued.
Trump has seen his campaign set off into a tailspin after the revelation last week of a 2005 tape in which the billionaire describes being able to sexually assault women because he’s “a star.”
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