'Go after all the fake enemies': George Conway exposes Trump's Epstein distraction ploy

President Donald Trump had an angry reaction when Reps. Ro Khanna (D-California) and Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) held a bipartisan Wednesday, September 3 press conference on Capitol Hill that featured survivors of the late billionaire financier and convicted child predator Jeffrey Epstein. Trump attacked the presser as a "Democrat hoax" designed to draw attention away from his accomplishments in the White House.

But in a video posted by The Bulwark late Thursday night, September 4, conservative strategist Sarah Longwell (founder of the group Republican Accountability) argued that a different type of distraction is going on.

Longwell told her guest, attorney and fellow Never Trump conservative George Conway, that in her view, Trump is deploying the National Guard in Washington, DC in order to "change the conversation away from Epstein." And Conway didn't disagree, telling Longwell that Trump wanted to "get attention to himself" on "something other than Epstein."

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"I agree with you," Conway explained. "But let me qualify it, in a sense. I think there are mixed motives here…. He doesn't think in logical progression. He just spins off and does things impulsively. But those impulses are based on instinct, and I think he has had this instinct that he needs to attack — and attack somewhere else to avoid being attacked himself. And so, the way you attack is you go after all the fake enemies that you always otherwise go after: the Democrats, the mayor of Chicago, the mayor of DC, (California Gov.) Gavin Newsom, immigrants, you name it."

Conway continued, "And so, that's his instinct: to coil up and strike in some other direction when he feels threatened. And that is consistent with doing something to distract. But I don't think he separates all these things out in his mind."

The attorney argued that Trump's "fear" of the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) Epstein files being released "makes him more manic."

Conway told Longwell, "I think he gets kind of hyper ... And I think he's worried about his own mortality, which is another subject."

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