George Conway called CNN conservative commentator Scott Jennings a liar and slammed the network for paying him to knowingly lie to viewers.
Conway and Jennings joined “CNN This Morning” to discuss Donald Trump’s guilty verdict in the criminal hush money case in New York. Jennings infuriated Conway when he suggested that Trump is the victim of political persecution and that the verdict will backfire on Democrats.
“Scott’s lying and that’s the problem with the Republican Party. It’s continually addicted to lies. It’s a lie,” Conway told Jennings.
“Wait a minute, what am I lying about?” Jennings asked.
“You’re lying! You’re lying, Scott. You’re lying about the law! You’re lying about what the jury was charged to find,” Conway responded. “They don’t have to find an underlying crime. They had to find the intent to cover up an underlying crime.”
“What was the crime?” Jennings asked.
Conway noted that Jennings, a former advisor to George W. Bush, is well aware that “you can’t take money from someone and reimburse them as if it’s a campaign expense.”
“That’s the problem with the Republican Party, they are suffused with lies,” Conway added. “I don’t know why this network is paying Scott to say those lies.”
Conway’s comment drew pushback from host Kasie Hunt.
“Whoa, whoa, OK, let’s not go there George,” Hunt told Conway. “Scott is our colleague and we are going to treat him respectfully as such.”
“Well he shouldn’t lie,” Conway responded.
