Kellyanne Conway tells CNN she was assaulted by woman in a restaurant: 'Her whole face was terror'
In an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, Kellyanne Conway said publicly for the first time that she was assaulted in a Maryland restaurant while there with her middle-school-age daughter, some of her daughter’s friends and their parents.
“Somebody was grabbing me from behind, grabbed my arms and was shaking me to the point where I thought maybe somebody was hugging me, one of the other parents coming to pick up his or her daughter,” Conway said. “And then as I turned around it just felt weird; it felt like ‘that’s a little aggressive.’”
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The alleged assault happened in Bethesda, Md., in October 2018, right after the Brett Kavanaugh hearings when, as Bash put it, “tensions in America were very very high.”
CNN identified the alleged assailant as Mary Elizabeth Inabinett and got a statement from her attorney, who disputed Conway’s account.
“Ms. Inabinett saw Kellyanne Conway, a public figure, in a public place, and exercised her First Amendment right to express her personal opinions,” read the statement from William Alden McDaniel Jr., Inabinett’s lawyer. “She did not assault Ms. Conway.”
Inabinett has been charged with second-degree assault and disorderly conduct, with a trial set for March in Maryland state court.
“She was just unhinged; she was out of control. I don’t even know how to explain her to you. Her whole face was terror and anger,” Conway said, later adding: “She put her hands on me and was shaking me and was doing it from the front with my daughter right there, who then videotaped her.”
Conway said the reason she hasn’t said anything sooner is because there were other kids and parents involved, and she hopes now that it will become “a teachable moment for everyone.”
When asked if she told President Trump about the assault, she said she did, but it was “long after” the incident. Conway added that Trump said “what he always says,” which was asking whether Conway, her daughter and the others were OK.
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