It’s all Trump today. He’s refusing to apologize for his Megyn Kelly comments, he fired a longtime adviser who says he quit first, and he’s thumbing his nose at the GOP establishment with this message to the Washington Post’s Robert Costa:
How Trump ends call: with a memo to the GOP establishment. "I have a lot of money and I'm not getting out. I'm going to win."
— Robert Costa (@costareports) August 8, 2015
Almost sounds like a threat!!
Dismissing calls for him to leave the race, Trump, in a series of phone interviews with The Washington Post, said he firmly believes he can capture the White House without the support of the Republican establishment, which has grown increasingly hostile toward the real-estate mogul. He cited his support among frustrated members of the GOP’s base as well the “millions of people everywhere” who are unhappy with the political class as his coalition.
“I have a lot of money and I’m not getting out. I’m going to win,” Trump said. “You watch, when this campaign is over, I win. As good as I’m doing, and I’m leading the polls, it’s just the start.”
He also had some words for Fox News:
Trump tells @costareports that Fox News "it isn’t so powerful like we thought."
— Gabriel Sherman (@gabrielsherman) August 8, 2015
Turning to Fox News, Trump said he will continue to war with the network, in spite of its popularity with conservative voters. “Fox has had a tremendous backlash about what happened during the debate. And it isn’t so powerful like we thought. Without me, they would have had a million people watching, not 24 million.”
On Kelly, Trump said he would not apologize for the comment he made on CNN about her and blood. “She’s a lightweight as a reporter, very unprofessional. Her questions were ridiculous. Only a deviant would think I was saying anything about blood somewhere other than her eyes or her nose. I was using an old expression and nothing more. It wasn’t even a complete sentence.”
And he said he would kick his campaign into “high gear”!
If this isn’t high gear, I shudder to think what that might be like.