Trump’s appointed adviser Kellyanne Conway to leave the White House

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US President Donald Trump’s appointed White House adviser Kellyanne Conway to leave the post. She has announced that she will be leaving the Trump administration at the end of August 2020 due to the need to focus on her family. Point to be noted that Kellyanne Conway served as Trump’s campaign manager during the 2016 election and has since been one of the president’s most loyal defenders. She announced her decision in a statement and said, “I will be transitioning from the White House at the end of this month”. Conway joined the Trump camp in July 2016 after initially working for rival Ted Cruz’s campaign and went on to become the first woman to manage a successful White House bid.

President Trump appointed her as a close adviser ahead of his inauguration. She has remained in post throughout his term so far. Conway has frequently defended Trump and his inner circle in briefings and on television; perhaps most famously in the first days of his administration when she debuted the term alternative facts, to defend false claims about the size of the president’s inauguration crowd. She recently appeared as an instrumental in getting President Trump to restart regular White House coronavirus briefings. It was a practice that officials have viewed as successful in helping to stop a drop in opinion polls the president had suffered largely because of his handling of the pandemic.

The departure of Conway came two months before Trump seeks reelection, leaving him without one of his most passionate spokespersons at a crucial time. Conway’s husband, George said he was stepping back from his role in the Lincoln Project. He co-founded with the stated mission to defeat Trump and Trumpism at the ballot box. It is noteworthy that Trump called him a wack job and a husband from hell, in a public feud last year. It prompted George Conway to declare the president mentally unfit for office. The decisions by the Kellyanne Conway came a day after their 15-year-old daughter said on Twitter that she was seeking emancipation. Their daughter has previously drawn media attention in the US after posting comments about her parents on social media.