George Conway on possibility of being next on Trump ‘enemies list’: ‘Let him try’

Conservative attorney George Conway on Sunday brushed off the possibility of being next on an “enemies list” for President Trump.

During an interview on MSNBC’s “The Weekend: Primetime,” Conway and others discussed a federal grand jury recently indicting former national security adviser John Bolton.

“Yes or no answer, are you worried that you’re next? On the enemies list?” MSNBC’s Catherine Rampell asked Conway, who was married to former Trump senior counselor Kellyanne Conway during the president’s first term, after a discussion about Bolton.

“No,” Conway replied.

“OK,” Rampell said.

“Let him try, ” Conway added.

A federal grand jury indicted Bolton last week on charges of transmitting and retaining national defense information. Prosecutors have alleged that, starting in the spring of 2018 through at least late summer of this year, the former national security adviser “abused his” old role to share more than a thousand pages of information on his daily activities in the job with two unauthorized individuals.

The information featured details marked as top secret and linked to national defense and was sent to the two people via “diary-like entries” by way of nongovernmental messaging apps and email accounts, per the indictment.

In the wake of his indictment, Bolton, who argued he did not break the law in handling information that was used for a book on his experiences, likened the Trump administration to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin’s secret police. 

“I have become the latest target in weaponizing the Justice Department to charge those he deems to be his enemies with charges that were declined before or distort the facts,” Bolton said in a statement.

“Then came Trump 2 who embodies what Joseph Stalin’s head of secret police once said, ‘You show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime.’”

The Hill has reached out to the White House for comment.