Thursday 9 February 2017
Ethics group demands investigation into Conway's comments promoting Ivanka Trump's clothing line
Ethics group demands investigation into Conway's comments promoting Ivanka Trump's clothing line
BY JORDAN FABIAN
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A left-leaning watchdog group on Thursday asked the federal government to investigate senior Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway’s comments urging Americans to “go buy Ivanka’s stuff.”
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) called her remarks “an apparent violation of federal law, ethics regulations and other standards of conduct” in a letter to the Office of Government Ethics.
CREW's executive director, Noah Bookbinder, urges them to “take any necessarily disciplinary action.”
Conway promoted Ivanka Trump’s designer line during an interview with “Fox & Friends” early Thursday morning.
"Go buy Ivanka's stuff, is what I would tell you." Conway said. "I hate shopping but I'm going to go get some for myself today.”
"I'm going to give it a free commercial here, go buy it today."
“The law is clear that public officials should not use their offices for their own private gain or the private gain of others,” Bookbinder said in a statement. “It’s hard to find a clearer case of that kind of misuse of office than we saw today.”
Conway's comments on Fox News followed President Trump’s Wednesday tweet attacking Nordstrom for dropping his daughter’s clothing line.
“My daughter Ivanka has been treated so unfairly by @Nordstrom. She is a great person -- always pushing me to do the right thing! Terrible!” Trump tweeted.
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