Trump’s Waffling Steps All Over Ann Coulter’s Anti-Immigration Book Release

Ann Coulter appears to wrestling with the five stages of grief that come when the GOP nominee upon whom you pin an anti-immigration book makes some erratic comments backtracking from his own hardcore stances the very week your book is set to drop.

Coulter hosted a book party for the launch of “In Trump We Trust” just hours before Fox News aired a town hall Wednesday evening during which Trump went the farthest yet in walking back his previous anti-immigration proposals. Among other things, he said his government would “work with” undocumented immigrants and he would let some stay if they paid back taxes.

Trump’s comments prompted Coulter to bash him on Twitter for using the same terminology as immigration reform proponents. But earlier in the day, before her Twitter rant, she seemed close to agreeing with Trump’s remarks–or at least content to spin them as not really a change of position at all. In an interview with Washington Examiner, Coulter signaled she could, in fact, be okay with Trump embracing a policy that allowed some undocumented immigrants to stay.

“I don’t think it is a change in policy,” she said, pointing to Trump’s continued push for a Mexican wall. “The policy is anyone who’s here illegally is here illegally, does not have the right to be here. We’ll decide whether it’s in our interest to let them stay or not. Perhaps it is in our interest to let some of them stay.”