Fox News contributor Karl Rove said Sunday that real estate mogul Donald Trump should be ignored because he “is not a serious candidate.”
Rove, former deputy chief of staff under President George W. Bush, made his comments during an appearance on “Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace.”
The show’s host, Chris Wallace, asked Rove how Republicans should “handle Donald Trump.”
“Ignore him,” Rove said.
“He is completely — off the base,” Rove said. “I mean, you know, ‘I’m gonna negotiate with ISIS. I have a secret plan to deal with ISIS but I can’t tell you about it because of my enemies. As President I have the unilateral authority to levy a 35% tax on any company that opens plants abroad.’ I mean this guy is not a serious candidate.”
Rove also said Trump had yet to file his “one-page declaration of his candidacy with the FEC,” saying Trump didn’t want to unveil his assets.
“He will delay filing that piece of paper,” Rove said. “He got into the race on Tuesday and by Friday he still couldn’t file a one-page piece of paper that required his name and his address and his signature on it.”
On Monday, Trump’s campaign released the one-page form he said he’d filed to the Federal Election Commission. However, on Tuesday morning, the FEC’s online list of candidates who had filed did not yet show Trump’s name.
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Will Badger-on-Head sprain a thumb in rage on Twitter?
That’s right. Kinda like that special math you did, right Turdblossom? “They have a candidate. But I have the real candidate.”
Oh Turd Blossom…none of your candidates are serious.
Trump is just the most honest about it.
Rove is correct, and deathly afraid of what Trump being in the race means…another clown car fiasco. Nor do I just mean for the presidency…someone like Trump bellowing out his crazy only encourages the crazy down ticket ala Akins. And with the GOP playing defense this year in the Senate, that’s a huge problem for them.
When will TPM start posting examples of goofy gun accidents again?
Just today over at Raw Story they had a guy in a a gun safety class at a Florida shooting range shoot himself in the leg. That’s kind of ho-hum but their weird ads with a pig posing by firearms threatening people who steal his popcorn is what makes it worthy of inclusion.
I know these guys live in their own little world but does it have to be in the same place as THIS one?