A former aide to president Ronald Reagan sees a parallel between the man he worked for and 2016 Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump — establishment Republicans mocked them both.
Appearing on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” Jeffrey Lord, an associate political director in the Reagan White House, said moderate Republicans said many of the same things about Reagan that they are now saying about Trump.
“I’ve gone back and looked. These were precisely the kind of things that were said about Ronald Reagan,” Lord said before citing examples. “This is old news and moderates in the Republican Party have been saying this for decades and they said it all about Ronald Reagan and, you know, we know what happened.”
Republican strategist and CNN commentator Ana Navarro jumped in and said that Reagan had experience as he was the governor of California and that “comparing Donald Trump to Ronald Reagan should be considered a sacrilege for any Republican.” She called Trump a “carnival barker who offers no solution.”
Lord fired back that Trump’s experience in building a global mega corporation is valuable experience and shouldn’t be dismissed.
“He has done a lot more than a lot of governors have done,” Lord said. “The notion that this experience is somehow irrelevant or makes him a clown is just, frankly I think, bizarre.”
DONATE TO BIZPAC REVIEW
Please help us! If you are fed up with letting radical big tech execs, phony fact-checkers, tyrannical liberals and a lying mainstream media have unprecedented power over your news please consider making a donation to BPR to help us fight them. Now is the time. Truth has never been more critical!
- Britney Spears shows off her rockin’ new bod, but had to spoil it with a liberal message about ‘Dreamers’ - December 24, 2017
- Border patrol forget they’re supposed to be heartless, deliver beautiful baby at the border - December 24, 2017
- After scoring tax cut victory, Trump sees ‘tremendous Democrat support’ for his next big initiative - December 24, 2017
Comment
We have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, profanity, vulgarity, doxing, or discourteous behavior. If a comment is spam, instead of replying to it please click the ∨ icon below and to the right of that comment. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain fruitful conversation.
BPR INSIDER COMMENTS
Scroll down for non-member comments or join our insider conversations by becoming a member. We'd love to have you!
Comments are closed.