A longtime speechwriter and adviser to Sen. John McCain made it clear Tuesday that he plans to support former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump if he wins the Republican nomination.
Mark Salter, who served as a senior adviser to McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, tweeted Tuesday that although Clinton “might not be a good president,” she isn’t a “conspiracy nut” with “mob ties,” adding “I’m with her.”
“The GOP is going to nominate for president a guy who reads the National Enquirer and thinks it’s on the level. I’m with her,” Salter tweeted Tuesday morning.
“I’ll have lots of company,” he told a Twitter user. “She might not be a good president. But she’s neither is she a conspiracy nut with mob ties.”
The comments came hours before polls closed in Indiana, where Trump leads Sen. Ted Cruz by ten points, according to the latest RealClearPolitics average.
Salter, who worked for the longtime Arizona senator for nearly 20 years, has been an outspoken critic of Trump, writing that Trump is the “anti-Patriot” and an “a——-e.” Earlier in the campaign, Trump ran into hot water last July when he suggested that McCain was not a war hero, adding that he likes “people who weren’t captured.”
He is also well known for ghost-writing McCain’s 1999 bestselling book Faith Of My Fathers.
