Since winning the Indiana primary and Republican nomination May 3, 69-year-old GOP presumptive nominee and real estate mogul Donald Trump finds himself in the crossfire from Democratic presumptive nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton and all the “Never Trump” haters. Joining forces with Hillary, 69-year-old 2012 GOP nominee former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney, continues to hammer Trump on what he calls racism and misogynism, the exact talking points of Hillary’s attack. Trump was accused of racism for daring question the impartiality of Judge Gonzalo Curiel who presides over the Trump University class action lawsuit. Trump questioned whether Curiel’s Mexican heritage would bias him because of Trump’s well-known critiques of illegal Mexican immigrants. Vice President Joe Biden went so far as to accuse Trump of flouting the federal courts.
Trump expects attacks from Hillary, his opponent in the general election, not disgruntled members of his own party, expressing sour grapes after Trump dispatched 18 GOP primary candidates. Romney’s vendetta against Trump shows the most crass kind of jealousy and vindictiveness, knowing he failed to beat President Barack Obama in 2012. Joining Hillary’s political assault breaks new ground for a former GOP nominee, desperate to steal headlines with CNN and other liberal news outlets busy attacking Trump. Romney’s assault warrants a strong condemnation from the Republican National Committee, putting Mitt on notice that his attacks are destructive to the GOP. “Trickle-down racism, trickle-down bigotry, trickle-down misogyny,” Romney told Wolf Blitzer on CNN. Giving Romney airtime to spew his vitriol shows how liberal news outlets perform hatchet jobs on political opponents.
CNN—and other liberal media outlets—should stop pretending political neutrality and announce to viewers their political biases. Trump’s public remarks toward Judge Curiel say nothing about Trump’s racism, only a concern that he gets a fair trial. There’s nothing newsworthy about Romney’s vitriol. Letting Mitt express his vendetta against Trump on national TV shows CNN’s bias. Mitt welcomed the chance to go after Trump on a left-leaning news channels. “I think his comments time and again appeal to the racist tendency that exist in some people, and I think that’s very dangerous,” said Mitt, echoing exactly the left-wing attacks by Hillary, Biden and, more recently, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), whose taken her vendetta against Trump to new heights. Trump accused Warren of misrepresenting her background, claiming she was Native American on employment applications without proof.
Responding to Mitts attacks, Trump Tweeted his standard line about Romney: ”Mitt Romney had his chance to beat a failed president but choked like a dog,” calling Mitt out for his continued attacks. Mitt hopes, together with Trump-hater Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, to find a suitable candidate to run as an independent. When conservative attorney and writer David French refused to run June 5, it threw ice water of Mitt’s last ditch “Never Trump” movement. Going on CNN or other liberal news outlets before the July 18 GOP convention in Cleveland is Mitt’s only way to lash out at Trump. Mitt knows Trump has all the delegates bound on the first ballot needed to win GOP’s nomination. Ripping Trump disgraces the Republican Party and only helps Hillary’s chances in November. RNC Chairman Reince Priebus needs to issue Mitt a cease-and-desist letter.
Trump’s beef with Warren over her bogus Cherokee Indian ancestry claims prompted her to top Mitt’s vicious assault on Trump. Calling her “Pocahontas,” Trump poked fun at Warren misrepresenting her background. If Warren had any proof whatever, she would have made it public. Warren’s assault on Trump speaks volumes about her trying to discredit Trump to salvage her trustworthy reputation. Misrepresenting racial, religious or ethnic background often disqualifies one from employment opportunities. Calling some illegal immigrants “criminals” and “rapists,” Trump never said all undocumented folks were undesirables. Warren savaged Trump for questioning Judge Curiel’s Mexican heritage as proof of his “racism.” She joined Hillary and Biden’s political attacks, knowing national polls show Hillary and Trump running neck-and-neck.
GOP officials need to put Romney and other “Never Trump” folks, like Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and former Florida Jeb Bush, on notice that they needs to stop helping elect Hillary. Whatever their sour grapes, Trump-haters need to suck it up and accept the will of GOP primary voters, voting for the real estate mogul in record numbers. “I’m not a Republican or a Democrat, I’m a Republicrat, and I go with the will of the people. The only reason Trump exists is because of the will of the people,” said boxing promoter Don King, endorsing Trump. Trump rejected Hillary’s effort to brand him as a racist. “Now he [Mitt] calls me a racist—but I am the least racist person there is,” said Trump, recognizing he fights not only Hillary but Trump-haters in his own Party. Trump plans to set the record straight and make his case against Hillary Monday at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire.
