Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina took a shot at real estate mogul Donald Trump’s campaign on Thursday to start off the consolation Republican presidential debate.
“I didn’t get a phone call from Bill Clinton before I jumped in the race. Did any of you get a phone call from Bill Clinton?” she said, looking at her fellow candidates. “Maybe it’s because I hadn’t given money to the foundation or donated to his wife’s Senate campaign.”
She was talking about a Washington Post report that said Clinton encouraged Trump to become more involved in GOP politics in a call a few weeks before the real estate mogul jumped into the race.
The Post reported:
The tone of the call was informal and Clinton never urged Trump to run, the four people said. Rather, they said, Clinton sounded curious about Trump’s moves toward a presidential bid and told Trump that he was striking a chord with frustrated conservatives and was a rising force on the right.
Check out our video of the exchange below:
No, none of you losers got a call from Clinton because you’re completely irrelevant, and so is your vanity campaign.
Day late and a dollar short snookums.
If you had received a phone call from Bill Clinton, Carly, I doubt you’d have liked what he had to say to you.
LOL. Trump would stuff you and eat you for dinner, and not in the way you think I mean it.
Thank goddess TPM is live blogging. I couldn’t take any more of this. Fiorina is so terrible. They told her to tell that joke deadpan and she thought they said say it like your are dead.
But she is not even the worst of them.