'Metastasis': Conway compares Trumpism to cancer — and fears we're headed to 'Stage 4'

15 February

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump makes remarks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. January 7, 2025.

Although George Conway has long been a prominent figure on the right, the conservative attorney is a scathing critic of President Donald Trump. Conway aggressively supported then-Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, warning that a second Trump term would be even more dangerous to the rule of law than his first.

Now that Trump is almost four weeks into his second presidency, Conway hasn't changed his opinion.

During a Saturday morning, February 15 appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend" — which former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele hosts with colleagues Alicia Menendez and Symone Sanders-Townsend — Conway was vehemently critical of the Trump Administration's interference in the federal case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. With Trump loyalist Pam Bondi now serving as U.S. attorney general, Trump's allies are asking prosecutors to drop their case against Adams without prejudice.

Conway offered a cancer analogy, comparing Trump's attacks on the rule of law to the various stages of cancer.

The attorney told Steele — another outspoken Never Trumper — Menendez and Sanders-Townsend, "The first Trump term…. was an assault on the rule of law…. It was like a Stage 1, maybe Stage 2. We got to Stage 2 right around January 6, and he was a threat to the rule of law. And then, he went into remission. Now he's back. We're at Stage 3."

Conway, himself a cancer survivor, continued, "Stage 3 is basically where we are ignoring laws and running roughshod over laws. I mean, you know, basically refusing to spend money appropriated by Congress, which is against the law. The law requires the president to spend money. The president can't not spend the money that's been allocated for particular subjects…. And so, that's Stage 3. Stage 4 is going to be…. I don't want to obey the (courts) …. And Stage 4 is metastasis. Stage 4 is when democracy can die and the rule of law can die, and constitutionalism can die."

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