Trump goes after Erick Erickson: ‘Fired like a dog’

GOP front-runner Donald Trump took aim at conservative commentator Erick Erickson Friday afternoon by saying he got fired from his former position as editor of the right-leaning website RedState, and thus is not one to try to take down Trump’s candidacy.

Erickson seemed confused by the allegation.

“I guess stubby-fingered men fire dogs. Makes no sense to me, but then most of what he says makes no sense,” he told the Washington Examiner’s media desk.

Erickson announced his departure from RedState in October 2015, and said at the time he was leaving to focus on his radio career.

“To be perfectly candid, I want to own my own site again, do my own thing, and experiment with the integration of radio and the web and advertising in my own way,” he wrote in a RedState blog post. “Right now, RedState is me and I am RedState. It’s time for Erick to be Erick and it is time for RedState to have its own identity.”

Erickson, who oversaw the group for 10 years, announced his successor, Leon Wolf, and stayed with the right-leaning website for another three months to oversee the transition.

This isn’t the first time that the talk radio host, who has been a vocal opponent of Trump’s presidential campaign, has been in the casino tycoon’s cross hairs.