On Monday, Newt Gingrich called Donald Trump’s notorious retweet insulting Heidi Cruz’s appearance “utterly stupid,” and talked about how “one of the dumbest weeks in presidential politics that I can remember” distracts people from Hillary Clinton’s scandals.
“It has frankly weakened everything that Trump ought to be strengthening. It sent a signal to women that is negative at a time when his numbers with women are already bad. It sent a signal of instability to people who are beginning to say, okay, maybe I’ve got to get used to it, maybe I’ve got to rely on him, maybe he could be presidential.”
He went on to say that the comment really has hurt Trump, energized Ted Cruz, and no one on the Trump campaign understands it.
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Trump booster Ann Coulter is also unhappy with her candidate’s comments. Coulter has been an ardent defender of Trump, but now says, “I am a little testy with our man right now.”
The Daily Caller’s Jamie Weinstein reports:
A staunch and vociferous supporter of Trump’s presidential candidacy, Coulter admitted she was disturbed by Trump’s retweet of a picture suggesting Ted Cruz’s wife is ugly, or at least not as beautiful his wife Melania, a former model. “Our candidate is mental. Do you realize our candidate is mental?” Coulter said. “It’s like constantly having to bail out your 16 year old son from prison.”
Coulter went so far as to say, “This is the worst thing he’s done.”
