George Conway: 'Sociopathic criminal' Trump committed 'multiple felonies' on tape
Following CNN's exclusive airing of audio of former President Donald Trump boasting about his improper possession of highly classified military documents to staffers and patrons of his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey, conservative attorney George Conway laid out the seriousness of his actions on "Anderson Cooper 360."
"How damning is this for the former president, do you think?" asked Cooper.
"Well, the special counsel already had Trump dead to rights because we knew this tape existed in some form. But to actually hear a former President of the United States committing a felony, probably multiple felonies, on audiotape while laughing about it is something I just — I think it's just stunning," said Conway, a longtime critic of the former president. "And I just don't see how, I mean, I can understand exactly why Trump's legal advisers think that this really changes the complexion of the case because ... I don't know how you can explain that in front of a jury."
The Iran battle plans Trump was waving around, Conway continued, are "by definition one of the most confidential things you could probably have, which is, you know, an off-the-shelf plan to attack a potential enemy of the United States of America. It's very, very valuable top-secret information. It's something the Iranians would probably pay tens of millions of dollars for. It's something that if it ever got into the wrong hands, it could lead to the deaths of American servicemen, if the Iranians were able to prepare for an attack and they knew what the attack was going to be, if they knew what the options laid out in the Pentagon document were. And the fact that he is just so absolutely cavalier, I mean, it's just sociopathic. This man has no respect for rules, no respect for the lives of other human beings, no respect for the country, no respect for the Constitution, no respect for his duties. He is a sociopathic criminal, and this is just another nail in the coffin of — it's just another thing that's going to put him away."
"I just played the video of the former president last week to Bret Baier, downplaying them, calling them articles and newspaper stories," said Cooper.
"He's lying," said Conway flatly. "I once wrote a semi-humorous piece inThe Washington Post when this first came out last year about cookies. He's saying he doesn't have the cookie jar. You put the cookies there. The jar is mine. The cookies are mine. The story changes from moment to moment to moment. It's like the narcissist's prayer, which is, if I did it, I didn't do it. If I did it, you made me do it. It was okay anyway. The endless lying. And he just — it's like an onion. You peel his lies and get more lies."
Watch the segment below or at this link.
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