Donald Trump Confidantes Welcome Mitt Romney’s Loyalty
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Ethan Miller/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — In an interview on ABC’s This Week over the weekend, conservative commentator George Will called Donald Trump a “bloviating ignoramus.”
On Tuesday morning, in a new web video, the Obama campaign labeled the reality television and real estate mogul one of the Republican Party’s “voices of extremism.”
But on one of the most symbolic days of the election — the day Romney will almost certainly clinch the Republican nomination — the former Massachusetts governor is counting him as a friend. Romney plans to stand shoulder to shoulder with Trump at a high-dollar Las Vegas fundraiser Tuesday night.
For their part, Team Trump welcomes Romney’s loyalty.
“Despite negative statements made by George Will and the Democratic machine, it’s telling that the standard bearer of the Republican Party continues to consider Donald Trump an important surrogate,” Trump’s special counsel, Michael Cohen, said in an interview with ABC News from Las Vegas.
The joint appearance has left critics scratching their heads after Trump, in recent interviews, has continued to question whether President Obama was born in the United States.
“You know, I don’t agree with all the people who support me and my guess is they don’t all agree with everything I believe in,” Romney said in a brief interview on his campaign plane on Monday. “But I need to get 50.1 percent or more and I’m appreciative to have the help of a lot of good people.”
One again, Team Trump agrees.
“No two individuals in the history of the world agreed on everything all the time, starting with Adam and Eve all the way to President Obama and Vice President Biden,” Cohen, a top political aide to Trump, noted.
In fact, Cohen said all the agitating about Trump was “a clear signal” that Romney’s opponents were concerned about Trump’s “massive popularity and his ability to raise substantial funds” for the GOP nominee between now and November.
What’s also clear, according to Cohen?
“It clear that no one is listening or cares about what the George Wills of the country are saying,” he said.
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