Press secretary Sean Spicer said top aide Kellyanne Conway was “counseled” after she promoted Ivanka Trump’s clothing line from the White House briefing room in a TV interview Thursday morning.
P”Kellyanne has been counseled, and that’s all we are going to go with,” Spicer told reporters during his daily briefing. “She’s been counseled on the subject, and that’s it.”
PSpicer did not add any additional information about who spoke to Conway or about the nature of that conversation, moving on to another reporter’s question.
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House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) wrote a letter to committee chair Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) to refer Conway to the Office of Government Ethics.
Chaffetz later said that her comments were “clearly over the line.”
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Spicer: Conway "has been counseled" after promoting Ivanka Trump's brand https://t.co/ow68eJdhAl pic.twitter.com/AxwDMLb6ay
— The Hill (@thehill) February 9, 2017
Q: Did Kellyanne cross an ethical line by endorsing Ivanka's products on TV?
Spicer: “Kellyanne has been counseled.” That's all he'll say. pic.twitter.com/sigUkI957N
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) February 9, 2017
Kellyanne on Fox—“Go buy Ivanka’s stuff…I’m gonna just going to give a free commercial here”
Here's federal ethics law many are pointing to pic.twitter.com/cAEARzsFFM
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) February 9, 2017
CREW asks the U.S. Office of Government Ethics to investigative Kellyanne Conway's plug of the Ivanka Trump product line on TV this morning pic.twitter.com/4Css1bNfBI
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) February 9, 2017
Elijah Cummings asks Jason Chaffetz to refer Kellyanne Conway for possible disciplinary action after TV plug of Ivanka Trump's products pic.twitter.com/X3RFrf8cEA
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) February 9, 2017
Conway on accusations of ethics violations: "I am not going to comment on that, Martha. I actually had nothing more to say about it." pic.twitter.com/g8MD58TUen
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) February 10, 2017
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