Donald Trump's campaign spokesperson Katrina Pierson, who came under fire of her own over the weekend after some of her past Twitter messages were revealed, defended the GOP presidential front-runner on Monday about his comments that his supporters would still back him even if he shot someone on New York's Fifth Avenue.
"I think it's no secret he doesn't care for political correctness, and of course it raises eyebrows," Pierson told Fox News' Martha MacCallum on the
"America's Newsroom" program.
"But a lot of things raise eyebrows with Mr. Trump. He was repeating conversations he had with people. Mr. Trump doesn't believe in having consultant-driven talking points
. . . He loves his voters as much as they love him. I think everyone heard in the video it was a joke and everyone laughed."
She also defended Trump over his growing attacks on rival candidate Ted Cruz, who he's initially called a "nice guy," saying he didn't start the argument with the Texas senator.
"I think that's politics," she said. "Mr. Trump isn't going to be disrespectful to someone who has been overly kind and friendly to him. But Mr. Cruz started attacking him. And Cruz admitted the eminent domain ads they were running in Iowa weren't exactly honest."
She also downplayed comments being made by Glenn Beck, who announced his support of Cruz last week and penned one of the conservative essays
attacking Trump in National Review.
"I think coming from someone who says they would rather have Hillary Clinton than a Republican he doesn't approve of, I don't take much stock in that," Pierson said. "We just have the broad base we'll need to win so we are excited going into Iowa."
She said she does not expect that Michael Bloomberg will end up entering the race, but if he does, it will help Republicans achieve "a landslide."
MacCallum did not bring up Pierson's own controversy, which involves Twitter messages she made in the past.
According to
The Daily Caller, Pierson in recent years tweeted messages in which she referred to Malcolm X as her "idol," attacked conservatives as racists, ridiculed candidates who speak about their faith, saying they would be "great if we were electing a Jesus," and referred to President Barack Obama as the "head Negro in charge."
Among the tweets, mainly dating back to 2013:
She told CNN's Brian Stelter, who questioned the "half-breed" quote on Sunday, telling him that she's an "activist, and I am a half-breed, I'm always getting called a half-breed, and on Twitter, when you're fighting with Twitter and even establishment, you go back at them in the same silliness they’re giving you. So I myself am a half-breed," reports
Mediaite.
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