US President Donald Trump does not want to comply with a referendum by a government ruling office to fire his counselor Kellyanne Conway. The President said today in a telephone interview with the US broadcaster Fox News.
The Special Counsel, an arbitration panel that, inter alia, is about failures of government personnel, had stated in a letter that became known yesterday, Trump should dismiss Conway. She has repeatedly violated the Hatch Act – a law prohibiting government employees from campaigning.
„Question of freedom of expression“
„It’s a question of freedom of expression,“ said Trump. Conway could not be deprived of this right. She was asked by journalists and answered. Among other things, it had been about Conway’s remarks about Trump’s possible Democratic opposition candidate, Joe Biden. Biden attacked Trump, Conway defended him, the president said.
Conway is a long-time companion of Trump. The leader of a survey company had joined in the hot phase of the 2016 election campaign together with the right-wing ideologue Steve Bannon to the team of the then Republican candidate.
Since the inauguration of Trump in January 2017, Conway is officially working as a consultant in the White House. Unlike many other Trump employees, she has remained essentially scandal-free in office. She only fell into trouble at the beginning of Trump’s term when she tried to call Trump’s untruths simply „alternative facts,“ and thus coined a nonsense.
Sharp criticism of US Federal Reserve
Meanwhile, Trump also criticized the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell. „He’s my choice – and I disagree with him at all,“ Trump said in a television interview with US broadcaster ABC.
