Jim Messina: ‘Trump Makes Richard Nixon Looks Like an Ethical Leader’
EXCERPT:
MESSINA: “Nancy Pelosi is playing 3D chess and Donald Trump is playing checkers. And every single time they come at each other, she walks away the winner, and now he’s taken — you know, every time I think this guy can’t sink the presidency even lower, he does. And it’s embarrassing. He makes Richard Nixon looks like an ethical leader here. This is just ridiculous. And I think, Andrea, we ought to call it what it is which is sexist. I mean, he wants to pick on Nancy Pelosi. He likes picking on women. He's going to try to have this fight. He thinks the politics are good for him. The problem he doesn’t seem to understand is she controls a lot of his future. You know, she can control what he actually gets done for the rest of his presidency. And every time he does this, he really damages his support with swing women voters that he’s going to need in Pennsylvania, in Michigan, in Wisconsin. And I think he’s doing himself grave damage."