Nicolle Wallace Slams ‘Arrogant,’ ‘Intellectually Lazy’ Donald Trump
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WALLACE: "I have a question, though. Why isn’t he getting better? He’s been number one in the Republican field for seven months. Like, why isn’t he improving? Why doesn’t he put a foreign policy thinker that he regards highly on the plane —"
BRZEZINSKI: "He was going to announce his foreign policy team last week."
WALLACE: "He has one sentence on health care. He has been the front-runner in the Republican field now for seven months. Why does he — why can’t you scratch the this deep and get anything more than “I don’t know who David duke is”? I have long accepted that people like what he’s selling. Peggy Noonan has a great piece about the unprotected and the protected. That helps me get my brain around this. But I don’t understand why he’s not getting better."
SCARBOROUGH: "And explain, if you will, there are reasons aside from the ugly race baiting going on here, there are reasons that millions and millions of Americans support Donald Trump that have nothing to do with race."
BARNICLE: "Legitimate reasons."
SCARBOROUGH: "Legitimate reasons. They are fed up with Washington, they want somebody to blow up Washington."
BRZEZINSKI: "They want strength."
SCARBOROUGH: "They want strength because Barack Obama in their mind has been so weak. They want somebody who’s tougher on ISIS. They want somebody who that is not bought and paid for by wall Street. They want somebody that can turn the economy around and I will say, you know, I have more confidence that Donald Trump knows how to turn around the economy than a bunch of kids that just walked into Washington, D.C. A couple years ago and never made payroll. I understand all of that. Which makes the ugliness of this shocking."
WALLACE: "There are too many many where as I stints on policy “I don’t know anything, I don’t need to know anything.” He has become the worst thing about a politician. He’s become arrogant in his standing atop the polls. He’s become intellectually lazy. He’s talked about John Bolton. Why not put John Bolton on the planes and learn four things about the Middle East. The things he says show he doesn’t know anything about the world or the problem we face than he did whewent down the escalator in June."
GEIST: "The Muslim voters made some sense to some voters that that should happen, not to me, not a lot of people. But what’s the Klan connected to? There’s nothing there except hate and ugliness and the worst of this country."
SCARBOROUGH: "And it doesn’t buy him a single vote. It doesn’t buy him a single vote on super Tuesday. Doesn’t buy him — I don’t know if this guy from queens thinks that we southerners want him to talk that way. No, we’re offended by it because most of us are like me. We went to integrated schools when we were five years old in rural Mississippi. Or Alabama or Georgia. That is the new Normal. I mean, I don’t — and it’s not even the new Normal, it’s been that way for half a century."
