Trump Doesn’t Want To Eat With Huntsman; Huntsman Denies Asking

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Poor Jon Huntsman. Not only did Donald Trump reject the candidate’s request for a meeting, he then used social media to publicly mock the former Ambassador to China.

“@JonHuntsman called to set up a meeting. Haven’t returned his call,” Trump tweeted on Friday.

The tweet is only the latest in what has quickly become an escalating feud between the two men.

Earlier this week, Trump also took to Twitter in order to take a shot at Huntsman, writing that he wouldn’t meet with the candidate because “he has zero chance of getting the nomination.”

In response to that first tweet, a campaign spokesman told The Hill that “Unlike Rick Perry and Mitt Romney, Governor Huntsman isn’t wasting his time with Presidential Apprentice, his focus is on real solutions to fix our nation’s economy.”

But Trump couldn’t let matters rest. “There were several calls made by the Huntsman campaign in which to schedule a face-to-face meeting with Mr. Trump and Ambassador Huntsman over the last few weeks,” Trump spokesman Michael Cohen told MSNBC.

The network noted that Cohen provided no proof that the Huntsman campaign had reached out at all and that Huntsman’s campaign declined to offer a comment.

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