Mitt Romney isn’t buying Hillary Clinton’s recent shift to the left wing of her party, saying Monday the presidential candidate is playing to the party’s base and that her eyes show deceit.
“Well, I thought the text touched the various places she needs to touch to try and keep her base intact,” Romney said of Clinton’s presidential re-launch speech. “Somehow when you see her on a stage or when she comes into a room full of people, she’s smiling with her mouth but her eyes are saying, ‘Where’s my latte?’ It just doesn’t suggest that she believes everything she’s saying.”
Romney said he believes people question whether they can trust Clinton.
“What does she really believe? I think people wonder: Can they really trust Hillary Clinton?” he said.
The 2012 Republican presidential nominee and former Massachusetts governor made his remarks Monday during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
Romney also cast doubt on Clinton’s strong income-inequality message, decrying her past paid speeches, saying “she makes in one hour a multiple of what an average American will make in a year.”
Romney toyed with a presidential run in 2016 but announced in January that he would not enter the race. While not a candidate, Romney still holds serious weight in the Republican Party. Romney hosted his E2 Summit for 2016 GOP candidates and donors this past weekend and delivered an address on foreign policy.
Following his talk, there was even chatter Romney may be positioning himself to be secretary of state in the next Republican administration, the Washington Post reported.
