Trump Lashes Out at Former Press Secretary After New Hampshire Victory: ‘I Don’t Need Any Advice From RINO Kayleigh McEnany’
Former President Donald Trump lashed out at his 2020 White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Tuesday after McEnany advised him to focus on uniting the party, securing independents, and winning the general election instead of attacking Nikki Haley.
Reacting to Haley’s advice in a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote, “I don’t need any advice from RINO Kayleigh McEnany on Fox. Just had a GIANT VICTORY over a badly failing candidate, ‘Birdbrain,’ and she’s telling me what I can do better. Save your advice for Nikki!”
In another post, Trump protested, “CNN & MSDNC TREATED MY BIG, DOUBLE DIGIT VICTORY OVER BIRDBRAIN, BETTER THAN FOX!”
After Trump defeated Haley in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, McEnany criticized her former boss for spending the majority of his victory speech trashing his opponent.
“This speech was a speech to dispose of the last remaining competitor, if you could call it that,” said McEnany on Fox News. “She’s still significantly behind him, he’s pulling a majority support, but to get her out of the race.”
McEnany advised:
I would suggest that adopting a general election tone is what you do at this point, and here’s why I say this. This was actually a fairly good night for Joe Biden. When you look at our voter analysis, only 10% said, “I would not vote for Joe Biden if he’s the nominee.” He won a plurality of voters who said he was too old, he won a majority of voters who were upset about the Gaza war.
She then noted, “When you look at the Republican Party, seven in ten Nikki Haley voters said, ‘I would not vote for Trump.’ There was a Des Moines Register poll, 43% said, ‘No, I wouldn’t vote for Trump.'”
McEnany said, “If I’m Trump, I sit back and I exclusively focus on the general election. I take the posture of a presumptive nominee. I focus on, number one, uniting the party, and number two, winning the independents, which Nikki Haley won 55-39%. That’s what I would do.”
She concluded, “Nikki Haley, I mean, the closest margin is 30% in the states ahead. For all intents and purposes, he’s the presumptive nominee.”
Watch above via Fox News.
