Conway: 'It's not for me to take away a grown man's Twitter account'

Kellyanne Conway may be managing Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, but even she can’t get a handle on his Twitter.

“Literally, people will seriously say, ‘Can't you delete his Twitter app?’” Conway told CNN’s Dana Bash in an interview broadcast Monday night. “It's not for me to take away a grown man's Twitter account.”


Trump has repeatedly ignored the counsel of his family and allies, who have told him that he has a Twitter problem. Trump, who has nearly 13 million Twitter followers, has used the platform to blast out attacks at anyone who criticizes him, share polls that show him winning or only trailing narrowly, retweet supporters and post damaging stories about his opponent.

The latter includes an alleged “secret tape” he tweeted at about 5 a.m. Monday that apparently proves “crooked Hillary wants to take in as many Syrians as possible.”

Pressed on that very tweet in a separate interview, Conway acknowledged Monday that she was unaware of what he was referring to but advised journalists to pay less attention to Trump’s timeline.

“Everybody wants to just follow him on Twitter,” she told MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki. “It’s easier. They want to take one comment he made or one tweet that some journalist said he said and then it makes all the rounds. I mean, let’s be fair. He gives speeches every single day.”

In her interview with Bash, Conway conceded that “it’s his campaign and it’s his candidacy” but maintained that she’s tough on the real estate mogul in private.

“I don't sugarcoat at all. And I think he really appreciates that,” she said.

“I told him yesterday, on the plane, ‘You and I are going to fight for the next 17 days.’ And he said, ‘Why?’” Conway recalled. “And I said: ‘Because I know you're going to win. And that comment you just made sounds like you think you're going to lose. And we're going to argue about it until you win.’”

Trump’s response, according to Conway, was, “OK, honey, then we’ll win.”

Despite the resignation that has begun to seep into Trump’s campaign, including Conway’s own admission Sunday that “we are behind,” she remained optimistic about Trump’s prospects on Election Day.

“It is still possible to win,” she said. “I think that we have got a very good chance of winning.”