Former John Kasich adviser on Trump: ‘I dislike this turd’

Published September 17, 2019 9:38pm ET



John Weaver, a former adviser to failed GOP presidential candidate John Kasich, bashed President Trump following the president’s response to journalist Cokie Roberts’s death.

“I never met her,” Trump said of Roberts after she died Tuesday morning at 75. “She never treated me nicely. But I would like to wish her family well. She was a professional, and I respect professionals. I respect you guys a lot, you people a lot. She was a real professional.”

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