Report: Lincoln Project Co-Founder Wanted Campaign Job in 2016, but Trump Thought He Was a 'Total Idiot' By Johnathan Jones
Published July 29, 2020 at 1:15pm
Steve Schmidt, the former GOP strategist who ran the day-to-day operations of former Sen. John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, sought to work for candidate Donald Trump’s campaign in 2016 but was rejected before ultimately deciding to become one of the faces of the NeverTrump movement, a new report says.
The New York Post reported Monday that prior to Trump’s election and the eventual founding of the anti-Trump political action committee The Lincoln Project, Schmidt wanted to run Trump’s campaign, as he enthusiastically viewed then-candidate Trump as a potential winner.
The former Republican, who now describes the president as a dangerous racist, was excited about Trump’s candidacy until he was left out of Trump’s campaign, sources told the outlet.
Sources claiming to have knowledge of a reported March 2016 meeting between Trump and Schmidt in New York City told the Post that the then-Republican political consultant was eager to meet the eventual GOP nominee. The meeting would have occurred around Super Tuesday, when it became clear Trump would take the nomination.
Schmidt wanted to run the campaign but was rebuffed by Trump, who did not care for Schmidt, according to the Post.
Trump saw Schmidt as a “total idiot,” one source said.
The Post reported that “things quickly soured when Trump thought Schmidt’s ideas were bad and the Big Apple real estate mogul left the meeting with a feeling that Schmidt was ‘very untrustworthy’ and a ‘total idiot.'”
In fairness to Schmidt, he later acknowledged he did attend the meeting, but suggested he did so only in order to gauge Trump as a candidate.
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