Fmr. McCain Adviser: Trump’s ‘Feeling Terror’ Comments Reminds Me of the Tabloids

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HALL: “— ‘New York Times’ that he ordered an investigation the day of the attack and found the reports to be bogus, quote, ‘the word came back quickly from Jersey City, later from Paterson. False report. Never happened.’ Let’s bring in our political panel, ‘The Daily Beast’ columnist Michael Tomasky and Adolfo Franco, former adviser of presidential candidate John McCain. Adolfo I’ll bring you in on this. What is your reaction to — and again, we realize that a lot of Donald Trump’s stump speeches [indecipherable] ad-lib, he’s trying to fill out the crowd.”
FRANCO: “Sure.”
HALL: “I liken it to, you know, when the head of your real estate agency is trying to ramp you up (Laughter) that you need to sell more homes in the suburbs. With that said, the 9/11 remarks that he can feel it, you know, I don’t know the transition he made but his father says everything he touch turns to gold.”
FRANCO: “Right.”
HALL: “When will words matter? And when will false claims matter?”
FRANCO: “Well, this has now gone from the I think outrageous comments and insulting comments to the absurd. This is just — this reminds me of the tabloids we’ve all seen in supermarkets. I won’t name any of the newspapers, but we’ve all seen them. The tabloids when you are checking out with people from [mars and clairvoyant and he had a feeling and everything] he touches turns to gold. It is just so absurd that I can’t believe that this is — anyone that, any Republican will seriously consider as our nominee.” [crosstalk]
HALL: “But you are a Republican and the polls right now show him leading on the economy, national security.”
FRANCO: “Yes. I do. But I tell you why I think this is the case. The president’s going to speak in a few moments. The numbers regarding the confidence that the Americans have in his foreign policy, in his statements on security, are in the tank. Some of them show as much as 80 percent of the American people think he is wrong on his reaction to the Paris attacks. I think Republican voters are sending a signal to other conventional candidates that what we need is a Ronald Reagan. We need someone who is really firm, has a vision, principled, doesn’t talk this tough talk that Donald Trump does with no plan and no absolutely data or anything to back up anything he says. So I think it’s a message of frustration, frankly, with this administration. But at the end of the day despite these polls, no one can take either Mr. Trump or, frankly, Dr. Carson, in my opinion, seriously. Because these things are just absurd.”