Donald Trump on Wednesday morning bashed the publisher of the New Hampshire Union Leader, who had slammed Trump as “a crude blowhard with no clear political philosophy” in a December editorial.
“He’s a bad guy,” Trump said of Union Leader publisher Joseph McQuaid on “Fox and Friends.”
He said he was tempted to mention McQuaid in his victory speech Tuesday night.
“You know, when I won, I sort of said, maybe I’ll mention him in my speech but I decided not to do that. I wanted to keep it high level,” Trump said on Fox.
The Republican presidential candidate referenced his decision not to attend a forum put on by the Union Leader in August, touting that he made the right decision.
“He asked me for advertising for his newspaper,” Trump said on Fox. “And he wanted me to make speeches and he wanted me to do his debate which was just before the Fox debate.”
“I thought it would have been ridiculous for me to do it,” Trump continued, referencing the Union Leader forum. “And other guys like Jeb Bush did it and made a total fool out of himself, and it really hurt him.”
Trump then mocked McQuaid over the paper’s decision to endorse New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
“Chris is a friend of mine, but obviously it didn’t work out,” Trump said. “He’s a bad publisher, and the paper is going down the tubes, as some papers are. But his paper is failing badly.”
