Wednesday’s dustup between Donald Trump and Nancy Pelosi, in which Trump stormed out of a meeting after Pelosi claimed he was executing a “cover-up,” was poised to be the political slap-fight of the week. That is, until Kellyanne Conway wormed her way into the fray. On Wednesday, the presidential adviser asked Pelosi if she wanted to respond to Trump’s post-meeting speech in the Rose Garden. To which Pelosi said, a source in the room told CNBC: “I don’t talk to staff. I talk directly to the president.”

Pelosi’s chief of staff later clarified that the speaker said: “I’m responding to the president, not staff.” Which, tomayto, tomahto. The real kicker came when Conway reportedly shot back with, “Wow, that’s really pro-woman of you.”

This, of course, is a familiar line from Conway, who has claimed that things like Cory Booker running for president are “sexist.” She continued to beat the drum on Thursday morning, telling Fox News in an interview that Pelosi, the “sixth most rich member of Congress . . . treats everybody like [they’re] her staff. She treats me like I’m either her maid or her driver or her pilot or her makeup artist, and I’m not. And I said to her, ‘How very pro-woman of you,’ per usual. Because she’s not very pro-woman, she’s pro-some women, a few women.”

In fact, while Pelosi’s net worth is an estimated $16 million, making her the 30th richest member of Congress, disclosure forms reveal Conway and her husband, George, have a net worth of up to $39 million; Conway reportedly pulled in at least $1 million at her old polling firm, and the couple recently bought an $8 million mansion in D.C. But of course, painting the speaker as a wealthy San Franciscan with a Napa vineyard, and herself as the self-reliant blueberry packer from New Jersey, is Conway’s homage to the “us vs. them” narrative her boss has constructed. That framing has always been something of an awkward fit for a White House packed with billionaires and grifters, just as “feminist icon” is an awkward fit for Conway, who routinely runs cover for a man whom more than a dozen women have accused of sexual harassment and inappropriate touching.

If Conway has any qualms about leveraging her status as one of the few female members of Trump’s inner circle to make bad-faith arguments, she hasn’t shown it. But in the case of Pelosi, she may have bitten off more than she can chew. The House speaker responded to the president on Wednesday with stoic concern, in contrast to his infantile fit. “I actually ardently pray for the president,” she told reporters Thursday. “I said one time, ‘Who’s in charge here? Because you agree and all of a sudden something changes. What goes on there? Who’s in charge?’ And he says he’s in charge. And I suspect that he may be . . . because I don’t think that any responsible assistant to the president of the United States would have advised him to do what he did yesterday.” In the case of Conway, she deemed the tiff beneath her. When asked for comment on Conway’s Fox interview Thursday, Pelosi responded, “I’m not going to talk about her.”

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