Conways’s comments on Fox Business Network came a day after Trump called conservative lawyer George Conway a “wack job” and a “husband from hell” who is hurting his family.

George Conway, a persistent critic of the president, has spent the last several days on social media suggesting that Trump’s mental condition is deteriorating — and he continued to do so in series of tweets on Thursday morning.

Kellyanne Conway told Fox host Maria Bartiromo that Trump continues to be supportive of her.

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“He’s protective of me, and that’s what people should really take from this,” Conway said. “I’m not being asked to choose between my marriage and my job. . . . The president has never made me feel that way.”

Conway said she can “appreciate” Trump’s efforts to defend himself against her husband. She has been surprised that her husband has chosen to air his concerns about Trump so publicly, she added.

“I was raised . . . in a household of strong Italian Catholic women who taught me that you air grievances like that in private, so it is very surprising to see it be so public,” Conway said.

She said she and her husband have “certainly have had those conversations” about his tweeting, and she suggested that the media gives him too much attention. “I don’t know when the feminists are going to write the story about the unusual situation of a man getting power through his wife, but that’s what we have here,” she said.

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Conway acknowledged that it is an unusual situation for a president to be engaged in a public dispute with the spouse of one of his top aides.

“It’s not just unusual, it’s unusual for George, who people know as a very private person, who really hasn’t weighed in on many matters over the years,” Conway said.

She said that since her family moved to Washington 2 ½ years ago, she has been supportive of her husband as he seeks new job opportunities — including some in the Trump administration — and that she continues to be. She suggested he would make a good judge or law school professor.

“He’s a brilliant litigator,” Kellyanne Conway said. “He’s not a psychiatrist, but he’s a brilliant litigator.”

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Earlier Thursday, before his wife’s TV appearance, George Conway posted a video on Twitter of Trump being interviewed in 1980 on NBC by Tom Brokaw.