Jeanine Pirro Says The Mitt Romney Anti-Trump Speech ‘Awoke A Sleeping Giant’ [Video]
Judge Jeanine Pirro unleashed one of her epic rants to insist that Mitt Romney’s anti-Trump activism actually resulted in the awakening of what she called a sleeping giant, a.k.a. the silent majority in America, who reject business as usual and favor an outsider for president.
According to Pirro, the GOP establishment which includes party bosses, political activists, and consultants, certain conservative publications, and other operatives are “panicked” that the New York real estate mogul might actually become the Republican standard-bearer in election 2016.
They believe that Trump is insufficiently conservative in how they define the term, among other things, and as such, are attempting to derail the Trump train through the #never Trump movement, SuperPAC spending, and other initiatives.
Questioning Romney’s credentials as a legitimate Donald Trump critic, Pirro warned Romney to be “very careful” about disrespecting “the will of the American people,” by trying to deny Trump the Republican nomination for president should he win and/or despite winning the most primaries.
A few days later, the voting on Super Tuesday 2 suggested that Mitt Romney’s anti-Donald Trump speech and subsequent like-minded media appearances may indeed have backfired against the GOP elites and possibly helped Donald Trump win the Michigan, Mississippi, and Hawaii primaries.
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Pirro was reacting to Mitt Romney’s recent intervention in the GOP presidential campaign by publicly blasting Donald Trump in a much-anticipated speech delivered at the University of Utah. Romney roundly criticized Trump’s ethics, business history, and life choices in an address that effectively urged Republicans to rally around anyone but Trump.
Pirro, a former judge and district attorney in the New York City suburb of Westchester County, as well as the 2006 GOP candidate for New York attorney general, is the host of Justice with Judge Jeanine on the Fox News Channel. She is also well known as a foe of Robert Durst.
A friend of Trump and a gun rights advocate, Pirro has previously used her “opening statement” platform to call for the impeachment of President Obama for the controversial Bowe Bergdahl prisoner swap, as well as for the Benghazi terrorist attack and alleged coverup.
In her dissertation, Pirro argued that the GOP hierarchy seems intent on trying to orchestrate a brokered Republican convention (if Trump is unable to secure the minimum necessary 1,237 delegates through primary wins to officially be declared the nominee) in Cleveland this summer that could toss the nomination to someone more acceptable to the elites in the party.
Unlike the Republicans, the Democrats have what they call “super delegates,” who are already committed to Hillary Clinton and which give her a cushion in her contest with Bernie Sanders at crunch time.
Jeanine Pirro hits out at Mitt Romney over his Trump comments https://t.co/BmvqR1vo2t
— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) March 7, 2016
She also called out Romney for doing the bidding of the GOP establishment and in the process for coming across far more critical of Trump than Barack Obama who he lost to in the 2012 presidential election. By all accounts, Romney won the first nationally televised debate against Obama, but seemed to take his foot off the gas in the next two.
“Mitt, if you’re so concerned about our country, where were you when Barack Obama lied to us — saying we could keep our healthcare and our doctor?
“Where were you when the GSA wasted millions of our dollars for stupid conferences, when the military suffered as the VA was run like a piggy bank for corrupt employees, when the IRS went after conservative 501 c3 applicants, while the Clinton Foundation runs one of the biggest 501c3s in the world — which strikes me as a money laundering organized criminal enterprise, parading as nothing more than a shell to pay campaigners and Clinton operatives to secure her election.”
.@JudgeJeanine Slams Romney: 'The Establishment Is Panicked' About Trump, But 'Not For Us' https://t.co/rDfqA0Cabi pic.twitter.com/xLjvVLBgjr
— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 6, 2016
Parenthetically, Romney sought and received Trump’s endorsement (and cash) four years ago when the New York real estate mogul was initially flirting with the idea of a third-party candidacy for the White House.
In a reference to the Trump University controversy, Pirro noted that Romney himself is apparently associated with two shady educational institutions.
In responding to Romney’s throwing shade on Trump’s business practices, Pirro overlooked mentioning that one Romney’s businesses, The Sports Authority, recently declared bankruptcy.
She also noted that Romney lost his own state, Massachusetts, to Obama even though he was elected governor there, “the second worst home state loss in presidential election history.”
Jeanine Pirro also expressed doubt about Romney’s justification for publicly distancing himself and the party from Trump.
“Your namby-pamby reason that you won’t support Donald Trump even if he’s the party’s nominee? You worry what you’ll tell your grandchildren when they ask why you didn’t stop Donald Trump. Maybe you ought to worry about when they ask about your loss to Barack Obama. What will you tell them? That you choked?
“…You say Donald’s arrogant — he says things that you don’t. But things that you think. Your acts are more arrogant than his words…”
Like him or hate him, data seems to indicate that Trump has brought in lot of new voters as well as Reagan Democrats and Independents to vote for him in the GOP primaries so far.
Back in September, Mitt Romney’s wife Ann praised Trump for “bringing more people to the table than we’d ever thought.”
Similarly, in an open letter to the conservative media and by extension the GOP establishment, lifelong Republican and conservative John Kluge, a lawyer and U.S. Army veteran, explained why he supports Trump.
“…Conservatives have become some sort of schizophrenic sect of libertarians who love freedom (but hate potheads and abortion) and feel the U.S. should be the policeman of the world. The same people who daily fret over the effects of leaving our society to the mercy of Hollywood and the mass culture have somehow decided leaving it to the mercies of the international markets is required…
“It is not that I think Donald Trump is some savior or an ideal candidate. I don’t. It is that I cannot for the life of me — given the sorry nature of our current political class — understand why conservatives are losing their minds over him and are willing to destroy the Republican Party and put Hillary into office to stop him. All of your objections to him either apply to many other candidates you have backed or are absurd…Even if you still hate Trump, you owe it to conservatism to ask yourself how exactly conservatism managed to alienate so many of its supporters such that they are now willing to vote for someone you loath as much as Trump.”
Do you agree or disagree with the pushback delivered on TV by Judge Jeanine Pirro against the GOP establishment and in support of Donald Trump voters?
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