Brennan “sounded like a partisan political hack about the president of the United States,” Conway said on ABC’s “This Week.” | AP Photo Conway calls Brennan a 'partisan political hack'

Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Donald Trump, on Sunday morning called former CIA Director John Brennan a “partisan political attack” for criticizing the president’s speech before the agency on Saturday.

Brennan “sounded like a partisan political hack about the president of the United States,” Conway said on ABC’s “This Week.”


“I think everybody needs to take a step back and a very deep breath…and think about what their words are,” Conway said.

Brennan, through a spokesman, on Saturday lashed out at Trump, saying he was "deeply saddened" by Trump's speech in front of the Langley memorial wall where his focus seemed to stray from the CIA agents in attendance to his own accomplishments.

"Former CIA Director Brennan is deeply saddened and angered at Donald Trump's despicable display of self-aggrandizement in front of CIA's Memorial Wall of Agency heroes," Brennan's former of deputy chief of staff Nick Shapiro said in a statement on Saturday. "Brennan says that Trump should be ashamed of himself."

