‘You can quickly get turned into a pretzel’: How a top Trump fighter escaped the spotlight in a critical month The lower profile of Kellyanne Conway, one of the president’s fiercest defenders, highlighted a mounting challenge for Trump’s team during the impeachment battle. Two days after House Democrats began their formal impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, Kellyanne Conway went on national television to assure viewers her boss did nothing wrong in his summer phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Then she went silent. In the middle of the most consequential moment of Trump’s presidency, the sharp-tongued White House counselor, who’s been an indefatigable defender of the Republican leader ever since she took over his campaign in August 2016, appeared to have traded in her ubiquity on cable news for a behind-the-scenes role deep inside the West Wing. Her colleagues and White House allies began to notice. ...