White House counselor Kellyanne Conway Kellyanne Elizabeth ConwayHirono: Roe v. Wade won't be overturned, but will be nullified Conway: Kavanaugh should not be seen as tainted Tomi Lahren: Protesting has been ‘cheapened by these man-hating feminists’ MORE brought up her own history of sexual assault Sunday in defending Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. 
 
 “I feel very empathetic for victims of sexual assault, sexual harassment and rape,” she said on CNN, and appeared to get emotional briefly. “I’m a victim of sexual assault.” 
 
 CNN “State of the Union” host Jake Tapper noted Conway rarely discusses any personal history. 
 
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 “I’ve just had it,” Conway said. She argued that the ongoing Senate debate about Kavanaugh is not a “meeting of the Me Too movement,” which over the last year has seen multiple women coming forward to accuse men in positions of power in politics, media, and other industries of sexual misconduct. 
 
 “Let's not compare Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby, and a few others, to what's happened here,” she said. “If we're going to have a national conversation, stop judging the victims and perpetrators according to their politics.” 
 
 Kavanaugh's confirmation vote to the Supreme Court position he was nominated to by President Trump Donald John TrumpUniversity offering course on 'Trumpaganda' Fiancee of missing Saudi journalist appeals to Trump for help Grassley says he wouldn't consider a Supreme Court nomination in 2020 MORE is pending a one-week FBI investigation into allegations that he assaulted at least one woman in the 1980s. 
 
 Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week that Kavanaugh held her down, covered her mouth and attempted to remove her clothing without consent while they were both in high school. The FBI is reportedly also investigating at least one other woman's allegations against Kavanaugh. 
 
 Conway also said Sunday that Twitter and the media should not “bring Trump into everything," specifically her revelation of her history of sexual assault. Trump has a record of multiple women accusing him of sexual misconduct. 
 
 “People on Twitter and elsewhere are saying right now, ‘oh how can she work for Donald Trump?’ I work for President Trump because he’s so good to the women who work for him,” she said. “I don’t want to hear it from anybody.” 
 
 --This report was updated on Oct. 1 at 7:00 a.m. ||||| White House counselor Kellyanne Conway is defending President Trump's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court as Judge Brett Kavanaugh faces allegations of sexual misconduct from over 30 years ago. Conway, speaking on "CBS This Morning" Monday, said the allegations against Kavanaugh are "starting to feel like a vast left-wing conspiracy." 
 
 "I know there's pent-up demand for women to get their day, women who have been sexually harassed and sexually assaulted, and I personally am very aggrieved for all of them, but we cannot put decades of pent-up demand for women to feel whole on one man's shoulders. What exactly is the standard for ruining one man's life based on decades of allegations that have nothing to do with him?" said Conway. 
 
 She added, "I just don't think one man's shoulders should bear decades of the MeToo movement." 
 
 Conway's comments come after another woman has come forward with accusations against the president's pick to fill the vacancy on the high court. According to The New Yorker, 53-year-old Deborah Ramirez alleges that Kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a party when they were both students at Yale University in the 1980s. 
 
 It's the latest allegation against Kavanaugh as another accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, is expected to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday. 
 
 Kavanaugh has vehemently denied both women's allegations. On Sunday, through an official White House statement, Kavanaugh categorically denied the latest alleged incident ever took place, calling it a "smear." 
 
 "I look forward to testifying on Thursday about the truth, and defending my good name — and the reputation for character and integrity I have spent a lifetime building — against these last-minute allegations," Kavanaugh said Sunday. Conway said the allegations against Kavanaugh, many of which stem from his years as a high school and college student, "does not comport with" the man many of his former female colleagues have known him to be. 
 
 "This may be the first time we've heard allegations against someone as a teenager who did not prey upon women thusly as he became powerful," she said. 
 
 Conway said that Ramirez can also testify before the committee if she so chooses, suggesting she contact Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, who Conway said has made "unprecedented accommodations" for Ford. But the president's adviser would not say if follow-up investigations should take place, saying the entire confirmation process has already been put on hold "for weeks." 
 
 Conway also said that Mr. Trump has "said from the beginning that Dr. Ford should be heard," calling him "very respectful" throughout the entire confirmation process. 
 
 "I take these allegations very seriously, as does the president," said Conway. "This president is defending his nominee to the United States Supreme Court. That nominee needs to defend himself against these allegations."
– Kellyanne Conway's boss has taken no small amount of heat over his Supreme Court nominee, but the presidential counselor gave her perspective on Christine Blasey Ford's allegations against Brett Kavanaugh some deeper context on Sunday. "I feel very empathetic for victims of sexual assault, sexual harassment, and rape," she told CNN's State of the Union, per the Hill. "I’m a victim of sexual assault." She says of the Kavanaugh situation, "let's not compare Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby, and a few others, to what's happened here. If we're going to have a national conversation, stop judging the victims and perpetrators according to their politics." As far as working for President Trump, himself accused multiple times of sexual assault, Conway is having none of it, saying the media shouldn't "bring Trump into everything." "People on Twitter and elsewhere are saying right now, 'oh how can she work for Donald Trump?' I work for President Trump because he’s so good to the women who work for him. I don’t want to hear it from anybody."