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"He's mental"

by digby

Yes, she actually wrote that

Of all the crazy stuff Trump has said, this is the one that finally gets Coulter's attention?

"I’m a little testy with our man right now," she said.

"You are? Daddy’s annoyed you?" Yiannopoulos asked in response, referring to Trump.

"Our candidate is mental. Do you realize our candidate is mental? It’s like constantly having to bail out your sixteen-year-old son from prison," Coulter replied. "OK, let’s move past last night’s tweet."

"This is the worst thing he’s done," she continued, adding that Trump's comments about Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) status as a war hero were also hard to defend.

"Everything else I could probably defend. I could, I think, off the top of my head. Most of it — it was them overreacting," she said, referring to liberals. "But the McCain thing, that was — OK it was a dumb joke, it didn’t work. Oh, well. Didn’t kill him. But that tweet last night…"

Later in the interview, Coulter confirmed that she was referring to Trump's Heidi Cruz retweet when Yiannopoulos mentioned that Trump retweeted "a picture of Cruz’s wife and a picture of Melania."

"That’s exactly the tweet I’m talking about," Coulter said. "No, you can’t defend it. This is when we’re bailing our sixteen-year-old out of jail."

This is a woman who's been tweeting out white supremacist screeds for years but a playground insult from Trump is offensive? This is the single most toxic, disgusting public figure in America whose made a lot of money with sophomoric, schoolyard insults that make Trump look like an amateur.

This remains one of my all-time favorites, from a column about the Democratic Convention that got her dropped by USA Today:

"My pretty-girl allies stick out like a sore thumb amongst the corn-fed, no make-up, natural fiber, no-bra needing, sandal-wearing, hirsute, somewhat fragrant hippie-chick pie wagons they call 'women' at the Democratic National Convention."

There's no point in trying to catalog her degrading, adolescent insults over the years. It's endless. Trump isn't close to being in her league. But it's interesting that she's starting to hedge her support. Nobody has been more of a passionate Trump supporter than Coulter.

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