The Washington Post, speaking for the Opposition Party consisting of the Democrats and mainstream media, on February 9, 2017, blared the headline: "White House says Conway has been 'counseled' after touting Ivanka Trump's products"
As usual, there is always a Republican ready, willing, and able to attack the Trump administration and help the Democrats. Jason Chaffetz, congressman from Utah, who was a NeverTrump, stepped up to say Conway's statement was "clearly over the line" and "unacceptable."
The facts are simple. Nordstrom canceled the line of clothing of Ivanka Trump. The cancelation and timing are suspicious, given the uproar by the usual suspects about Trump's temporary ban on immigration from seven countries. So Conway said on TV, "I'm going to give it a free commercial here. Go buy it today."
It was an innocent remark said on the spur of the moment in answer to a question. But the D.C. crowd considers this a violation of the ethics regulations that prohibit federal employees from "endorsing" products. There is no charge that Conway endorsed a product for financial gain.
The Opposition Party considers the Conway statement a major ethics violation. The Opposition Party considers the Conway statement much more serious than:
1) Hillary Clinton selling access to the State Department;
2) using State Department to line up speaking fees for her husband Bill at about $500,000 per gig;
3) Attorney General Lynch meeting with Bill Clinton the day before Hillary was questioned by the FBI and Director Comey's decision to not recommend prosecution;
4) using a private email server in violation of government regulations that left the email system subject to hacking by foreign hostile actors; and
5) Hillary's friend, Terry McAuliffe, giving over $700,000 to the political campaign of the FBI chief investigating Hillary. These are only the major examples.
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