NY Post Columnist: ‘It’s Sad’ How Low Trump Fans Must Stoop to Defend Candidate

New York Post columnist Karol Markowicz says it's "sad" how low Donald Trump's supporters have to fall in order to defend his various controversial statements. 

Markowicz, one of the female columnists to demand Trump fire his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski for assaulting a female reporter, said his latest comments about women needing "punishment" for having abortion prove he's "unserious."

"It's unfortunate that this is where we are in the campaign, where the Republican front-runner can say outlandish things like this and have his supporters just say, 'it was a misspeak as if that's like he mumbled his words or misspoke on something not as enormous as this," she said during an appearance on MSNBC. "So you have surrogates like Ben Carson making the argument, he didn't know he was going to be asked that. As if other candidates are aware of what they'll be asked. It's sad." 

"When Donald Trump first heard about this, he said it never happened," Markowicz said. "She made it up and then moved to potentially Michelle Fields was an assassin and then get to a crazy point where his supporters not just Chris Christie types but his regular supporters have to end up arguing that the reporter holding a pen is a dangerous thing."