Congressional candidate George Conway on CNN on January 6, 2025 (Image: Screengrab via CNN / YouTube)
On Tuesday, conservative attorney George Conway officially announced his campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives, and kicked off his campaign by highlighting President Donald Trump's false claims about the January 6 insurrection.
"These are the lies of a criminal. The message I'm sending is that the president of the United States is a criminal," Conway told CNN host Anderson Cooper on Tuesday. "He's not just a convicted criminal. He should have been convicted for the crimes that he led on January 6th."
Conway maintained that Trump is "running the United States government like a mob operation," and that the U.S. government is now "of the boss, by the boss and for the boss." He added that both Democrats and Republicans in Congress have so far failed to properly hold the perpetrators of the insurrection accountable.
"They are spineless, shameless people who have abdicated their constitutional responsibility when they take the oath of office," he said. "They have, as members of Congress, as members of the House and members of the Senate, they have the obligation to remove a criminal president, and they had the obligation in 2021 to make sure that the criminal president, who had just left office, could never take office again, and they abdicated that responsibility."
Conway — who is running to fill the Manhattan-area seat being vacated by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) — said that while he has not previously been interested in running for office, he wanted to "go toe-to-toe" with Trump and pass legislation aimed at both bringing accountability for the Trump administration and preventing someone like him from rising to power again. He then proposed two reforms he aimed to accomplish if elected.
"Two things have to happen in order for us to save the republic from him," Conway said. "First of all, accountability. Investigating and impeaching the president and his other other executive officials who are committing high crimes and misdemeanors every day as we speak. And the second is to pass laws, legislation — carefully drafted legislation within the four corners of the Constitution — that will make sure we never have this autocratic, kleptocratic authoritarian threat ever again."
"It's a lot, but this is what we have to do because our survival as a republic depends on it," he added.
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