Sarah Palin told Donald Trump on Thursday not to “take the bait” that Mitt Romney dangled in front of him Thursday by publicly calling Trump a “phony” and a “fraud.”
In a Facebook post, Palin argued that the Republicans who are against Trump are also against Americans.
“The ‘machine’s’ deception and nonsensical attack on Trump isn’t really an attack on the candidate, it’s an attack on conscientious, hardworking, patriotic Americans who know we need a revolution to stop the complicit politicians who are fundamentally transforming America. We found the revolutionary,” she wrote shortly after the conclusion of Romney’s speech from the University of Utah. “Donald Trump is the shock the Permanent Political Class needs to wake them up … to destroy their selfish cabal … to respect the will of the people … to make America safe and solvent … to make America great again.”
“Don’t take the bait, Mr. Trump. It’s not about you. It’s about us. And we’ve got your back,” concluded Palin, who has officially endorsed Trump.
Palin also included an attack video against Romney that questioned how conservative he, is and accused him of being supportive of amnesty and Obamacare.
Less than an hour after her first post, Palin posted again on Facebook, thanking Romney for confirming in his speech “the reasons Trump received tens of thousands more votes than you did in your own home state that you governed.”
Romney received words of support from Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., shortly after Romney finished. McCain ran for president in 2008 and picked Palin as his running mate. But Palin dismissed Romney as a “silly man.”
“Independent, commonsense conservative patriots: now it’s our time to ramp it up, to prove even more adamantly that our movement in this time for choosing is wisely chosen by those who know what’s at stake for America,” she wrote. “His shoulders are broad, but Donald Trump must not carry this on his own shoulders. Thankfully, Mitt’s anti-Republican platform speech just strengthened our own. Americans’ shoulders just got bigger and broader. Way to go, Mitt.”
