President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Kellyanne Conway has defended Trump's record of demeaning women in her farewell speech.
Speaking at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday, Trump's longtime adviser spoke about how the President has helped elevate women "for decades".
The American pollster, who helped manage Trump's campaign during the 2016 election, was the first woman to run a winning US presidential campaign.
Conway announced she will be leaving her role at the White House on Sunday (local time), as she and her husband wanted to spend more time with their children.
In what may be her last speech as a White House official, she praised Trump as a leader who has "elevated women to senior positions in business and in government."
'"He confines in and consults us, respects our opinions and insists we are on equal footing with the men."
"President Trump helped me shatter a barrier in the world of politics by empowering me to manage his campaign to its successful conclusion."
Her speech defended the long history of Trump's degrading comments towards women.
In his campaign rally in 2016, Trump called Hilary Clinton a "nasty woman" and said, "when she walked in front of me, believe me, I wasn't impressed."
In an interview with The New York Times in 2015, Trump said that the German supermodel Heidi Klum was "no longer a 10."
Trump also claimed that Arianna Huffington, the editor and co-founder of HuffPost was "extremely unattractive (both inside and out)," in 2015.
And in 2018, he called porn-star Stormy Daniels "horseface," after he continued to deny they had an affair in 2016.
