While the country has been divided over Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the United States Supreme Court and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's testimony against him, the machine that is American politics continues to chug along.

Today Kellyanne Conway, a top advisor to President Trump, made an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union with Jake Tapper to share the White House's stance on the nomination and defend Kavanaugh.

Her interview took an unexpected turn, however, when Conway said that she herself has also been a victim of sexual assault. She said to Tapper, “I feel very empathetic, frankly, for victims of sexual assault, sexual harassment, and rape. I’m a victim of sexual assault." She then brought it right back to politics, saying, "I don’t expect Judge Kavanaugh or Jake Tapper or Jeff Flake or anybody to be held responsible for that. You have to be responsible for your own conduct.”



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Conway didn't give any further details about her experience.



In a 2017 profile on Cosmopolitan.com, Conway talked about sexism she has faced in her career.

“I encountered all kinds of sexism,” Conway said. “The most extreme examples were unwanted sexual advances. Always by older men, often in positions of power, with some fancy title before their name and an R or a D after it.”



Conway never spoke out about the harassment. “People might say, ‘She didn’t report sexual assault.’ It wasn’t called that back then. And it would be embarrassing to the twentysomething or thirtysomething-year-old girl to try to make some federal case out of somebody who was in a huge position of power,” she said. “You’d rather just pretend it didn’t happen, that it was your fault, or that it would never happen again. The idea that you think you’ve got the right to stick your tongue down my throat is pretty darn disgusting.”

Alanna Greco Weekend Editor I'm a writer and editor based in New York City.

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