The real estate mogul and reality TV star mocked Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) height, warned Carly Fiorina not to publicly challenge him, and jabbed at former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush over an early campaign stumble about whether he would invade Iraq. Trump singled out Paul, who in recent weeks has pledged to expose Trump’s past record supporting Democratic causes. “Rand, I’ve had you up to here,” Trump said, holding his hand halfway up his chest to indicate that’s how tall the Kentucky Republican stands.
Trump also claimed that Paul was "scamming" the people of Kentucky by running for president while also keeping a return to the Senate as his back up plan.
At one point saying:
“Either run for Senate and do a good job or run for president. You don’t run for president and say if I don’t make it, I will become your senator reluctantly. If I were a good, strong Republican from Kentucky, I would run against him in a heartbeat.”
Trump also pretended that he would not attack a woman when referring to Carly Fiorina right before he launched this in her direction:
“Carly was a little nasty to me,” Trump said. “Be careful, Carly. Be careful. But actually, I can’t say anything to her because she’s a woman and I don’t want to be accused of being tough on women.”
“I promised I wouldn’t say that she ran Hewlett Packard into the ground,” Trump said. “I said I would not say it. That her stock value tanked. That she laid off tens of thousands of people and she got viciously fired. I said I would not say it. And that she then went out and ran against Barbara Boxer for senator of California, and it’s a race that should have been won and she lost in a landslide, and I said, I will not say that, ok? So I’m not going to say it.”
But when it came to Jeb Bush Trump did not bother to pretend that he was not going for the jugular:
“The other day, I’m watching, and [Bush] said, ‘Well, we got Saddam Hussein out, didn’t we?’ ” Trump said. “I’m not a fan of Saddam Hussein, but he ran the place, and he had no weapons of mass destruction, and now instead of Saddam Hussein, we are far more brutal, we have ISIS and we will have Iran because they are already making deals.”
Trump followed that up with this:
“The Iraq War is a disaster for the Bushes. The last thing we need is another Bush,” Trump said. “Saddam Hussein, instead of him, you have ISIS, you have Iran taking over. You tell me, was it worth what we paid for?”
Okay I have to admit that I usually watch Trump with more than a small portion of disgust, but some of these things he was saying last night actually had me cheering him on a little.
Now don't get me wrong, I still think the man is a pig.
However I kind of like it when the GOP pigs start oinking at each other, and taking chunks out of each others hide.
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