"Hillary hired a psychologist. I won't touch that," Kellyanne Conway says. | POLITICO Screen grab Trump campaign manager blasts Clinton 'psychological warfare'

Donald Trump's campaign manager on Wednesday mocked Hillary Clinton's reported debate preparations, including enlisting the help of one of the Republican nominee's past ghostwriters and psychology experts.

"Hillary hired a psychologist. I won't touch that. But if it's to help get under Donald Trump's skin .... why can't she just — what is she so afraid of?" Kellyanne Conway remarked during an interview on "Fox & Friends."


The New York Times reported on Monday that Clinton's advisers are talking to the ghostwriter of Trump's best-selling book "The Art of the Deal" as well as psychology experts as part of the candidate's debate prep.

Conway continued, asking why Clinton could not merely show up to the first debate next month, "and say I'm going to defend Obamacare that’s been a disaster, I'm going to explain what the heck I meant last month in my convention speech referring to savage terrorists as quote our determined enemies."

"She can explain why she is not for school choice and charters. She doesn't respect home-schoolers," Conway said.

"I mean, why not show up and have debate on the issues? Why all this cage-match stuff, this psychological warfare? It tells you that he knows the issue set don't favor her and it tells you that the only way she can actually win is by trying to make Donald Trump seem so unpalatable," she remarked.