Trump confidant Kellyanne Conway charged that reporters crossed a line by direct messaging her teenage daughter for family dirt when she worked in the first Trump administration and hinted that she could bring legal action against them.
“I know they’re watching your podcast, and I have those direct messages, the ones that my daughter shared with me,” she said on a podcast hosted by Katie Miller, also a former staffer in the first Trump administration and wife of current deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller.
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“I’m, you know, a fully recovered attorney, but I know about statutes of limitations,” she said, adding, “the Christian in me has not really been able to find forgiveness for all of them.”
In a wide-ranging interview on the Katie Miller Podcast, Conway said that many members of the press saw their job as taking her and President Donald Trump down in the first administration and now in his second.
“The media’s job is to get the story. But they believe that their mission and calling in life is to get Trump. They don’t do that either at this point,” Conway said.
In the first Trump administration, from January 2017 to January 2021, the 2016 Trump campaign manager was senior counselor to the president.
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— The Katie Miller Podcast (@katiemillerpod) October 13, 2025
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During that time, her former husband turned on Trump, as did her daughter, Claudia. Both used social media to express their views, and many of the president’s media critics seized on the differences that many families were experiencing.
Some reporters sent direct messages to her daughter, then 15, “asking her to tell more about her family.”
Conway suggested that those messages crossed an ethical and possibly legal line. “The idea that anyone, let alone professionals in the media, could direct message your 15-year-old daughter and think it’s OK is absurd. It’s completely absurd,” said Conway, who didn’t name any of the reporters.
“I think there should be some kind of standards and rules,” she told Miller.
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Conway described herself as a “momma bear” who keeps the family secrets secret. She said that she could make $10 million in a book deal if she dished dirt, but never will.
Instead, she’s encouraged her daughter to set up a group that can help young adults navigate social media and the awkward situations both were forced into.