Nicolle Wallace Calls Trump ‘So Repulsive,’ Not Even His Former VP Will Vote for Him
Nicolle Wallace had some harsh words for Donald Trump in light of reporting about the former president’s nascent global “authoritarian axis.”
On Friday, The Guardian reported that Ric Grenell, who served as the former president’s ambassador to Germany, has been running a “shadow foreign policy campaign” in anticipation of Trump’s return to the White House. Trump, who has a demonstrated affinity for autocrats across the world, has called Grenell “my envoy.”
“It looks as though Grenell is trying to build up a developing authoritarian network of rightwing leaders to form this authoritarian axis that Trump might govern by – ranging from Putin to [Viktor] Orbán [prime minister of Hungary] to Erdoğan,” one foreign policy analyst told The Guardian.
Wallace cited the report and expressed concern that Trump would stock a second administration of his with authoritarian-minded staffers who would be more adept at achieving his aims.
“It goes beyond more effective people moving us toward authoritarian to all the people that were so far right they were distasteful to many people in the center and everyone on the center-left,” Wallace said. “It’s so bad that Mike Pence – his former VP – isn’t voting for him and neither are any of the other people that served in his cabinet. It’s all relative, right? We’re gonna choose between a Republican and a Democrat. No, you’re not. You’re gonna choose between a Republican who is so repulsive to his own former vice president, that he will not vote for him for the first time in American political history.”
During an appearance on Fox News last month, Pence said he will not endorse Trump for another term.
“[I]t should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year,” said Pence, whom Trump urged to refuse to certify the results of the 2020 election as presiding officer in Congress. When Pence declined, a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol and chanted, “Hang Mike Pence!”
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