CNN’s Costello to NR’s John Fund: ‘Tone’ of Anti-Trump Issue ‘Is So Vicious’

COSTELLO: “But still the tone of the article is so vicious and---it is.”
FUND: “First of all, these are 23 leading conservative figures, including two former attorneys generals [indecipherable]. You go down the list, it’s the who’s who of conservativism. And most of the language is very strained. You picked out the most inflammatory bits but does any of that compare with the inflammatory language Donald Trump has been using the last few months? I don’t think it is even close.”
COSTELLO: “The National Review said it saw what the RNC, it saw what it did — it saw it was coming. That the RNC was saying — [crosstalk] — not going to participant in the next Republican debate.”
FUND: “If you are going to have a partner taking sides in a political contest I can understand why they wouldn’t want that is the debate partner. I do have a problem with the fact that Donald Trump is masquerading as a conservative. When he was a Democrat until the late 2009 when he gave [indecipherable] Democrats until 2011 and when he's the most egregious abuser of eminent domain taking people’s property without proper procedure in the country.”