On Wednesday morning, attorney and anti-Trump pundit George Conway joined the online frenzy over the failed House impeachment proceeding aimed at ousting controversial Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
In a series of posts on X, the former Republican fired off a series of complaints and questions about why 11 Democrats were no-shows for the vote, allowing Donald Trump’s appointee to avoid the disgrace of possibly being driven from his job — for now.
According to Conway, it was outrageous that some of the missing Democratic House members were attending an Elect Democratic Women (EDW) event just over a mile from the US Capitol at a time that was so close to the House floor vote conducted by outgoing Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).
Linking to a post that reported, “Katherine Clark is the Democratic Whip in the House, and it is thus her responsibility to ensure members are there to vote. Clark is also a founding member of EDW, which hosted an event tonight from 4:30pm to 6:30pm, overlapping with the 5:30pm vote on the Hegseth impeachment. Of the 11 members who missed the Hegseth vote, 8 have received support from EDW or its AIPAC-tied super PAC EDW Action. Of those 8, two are sitting board members," Conway exploded in Trumpian all-caps.
“ABSOLUTELY INSANE. THE HOUSE DEMOCRATIC ****WHIP**** WAS THROWING THE FUNDRAISING BASH THAT KEPT DEMOCRATS FROM VOTING TO SEND THE HEGSETH IMPEACHMENT VOTE TO THE FLOOR,” he wrote.
After adding, “If AOC were in leadership, this wouldn't have happened,” he pointed to a statement from current House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) who stated, "I haven't had a conversation with anyone on the floor team about what may or may not have happened in terms of the Hegseth resolution, but this is not the end of it. It's just the beginning."
Conway wrote, “Honestly—and I hate to say this—this doesn’t sound like a statement from someone who cares all that much about holding this Administration accountable for its miscreant conduct.”
Responding to an X user who posted AIPAC contributions made to the missing Democratic lawmakers, Conway posed the question: “These are interesting figures. For context, and purely out of curiosity, I would also find it interesting to know (a) what the average contributions from the same groups for the 204 Dems who showed up are, and (b) what the statistical likelihood the difference, if any, is random?”
