"He supports me 100 percent,” Kellyanne Conway said of President Donald Trump Thursday. | Getty Conway says Trump backs her '100 percent' in Ivanka flap

Kellyanne Conway said President Donald Trump supports her “100 percent” in the controversy surrounding Conway’s public endorsement of Ivanka Trump’s clothing brand.

“I am just really happy that I spent an awful lot of time of the president of the United States this afternoon and that he supports me 100 percent,” Conway said in a Thursday night interview with Fox News.


Conway told Americans to “go buy Ivanka’s stuff” during an interview with Fox News Thursday morning, one day after the president blasted luxury retailer Nordstrom for dropping Ivanka’s clothing line. Her remarks received bi-partisan blowback and complaints that she'd violated ethics standards. Executive branch employees are not allowed to use their positions to endorse products or companies.

Reps. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) and Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the chairman and ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, respectively, wrote a joint letter to Office of Government Ethics Director Walter Shaub that said Conway’s comments “raised extremely serious concerns.”

Conway said the administration was aware of the letter and was reviewing it internally. She said talking about the controversy with the president was a “very heartening moment.”

“All I can say to America’s women is, at some point in your life, you ought to have a boss who treated me the way that the president of the United States treated me today,” she said.

