While former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is set to tear into front-runner Donald Trump during a speech at the Hinckley Institute of Politics Forum in Utah Thursday, where he will reportedly call the real estate mogul a "phony" and a "fraud," Trump took to Twitter noting Romney's desperation for his endorsement just four years ago.
Trump tweeted:
On NBC's "Today Show," Trump followed up on his tweet saying Romney "literally begged me and he is a failed candidate. I backed him. He failed. He was a horrible candidate. He disappeared in the last month before the election."
According to NBC, the excerpts released ahead of Romney's speech show he will go a step further in his attacks on the real estate mogul. But when Trump was asked if Romney's speech will have an impact on his campaign, he replied, "Romney is a stiff."
Trump added on Twitter:
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MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program, Trump added that Romney was a "catastrophe" when running for president and it was "an election that should have been won by the Republicans."
"I watched this happen and I wasn't happy about it and neither was anybody else," Trump said. "We backed him and I helped him and raised money for him, but he didn't do the job. He didn't have the capability to do the job and he hasn't gotten any better."
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