"Healer in chief": Kellyanne Conway hails Trump while telling Democrats to turn down rhetoric

FRIDAY, JUN 16, 2017 05:29 PM EDT

“Healer in chief”: Kellyanne Conway hails Trump while telling Democrats to turn down rhetoric

Presidential adviser blames Democrats' "resistance" to Trump for Alexandria shooting

MATTHEW SHEFFIELD

In a Friday appearance on “Fox and Friends,” White House adviser Kellyanne Conway had some advice to Democrats: Be nicer to America’s “healer in chief.” Conway directed her comments at congressional Democrats who she said have not done enough to police their own side in light of the recent shooting of Republican Rep. Steve Scalise by a deranged Trump-hater named James Hodgkinson.

The Republican pollster and talking head appeared on the Fox News morning program to chat about her reaction to the congressional baseball game for which Scalise had been practicing when he was targeted.

“I was there at the game last night at the beginning and there was a feeling of unity and healing,” Conway said. “I think that was brought about by our leader, President Donald Trump. He’s being a healer in chief he’s been just remarkably wonderful to the entire country calling for unity praying for those who have been injured for their full recovery.” She continued: “I think the unity lasted a hot minute for some leaders.”

Conway argued that “You can oppose policies but it’s done with such hateful, charged rhetoric that active resistance becomes armed resistance in the case of this lone gunman.”