Heritage CEO: Trump Blew Supreme Court List Excitement By Signaling He'd Change It
Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee often contradicts what he says on an almost daily basis, but suffers no consequences for it from the Republican voters.
However, his flip flops and about faces are not going over so well with the Conservative establishment. Trump is on such shaky ground with many Republicans that he released a list of his possible Supreme Court nominations to send a signal that he's on their side, but he couldn't help himself and may have lost whatever excitement and good will he built up with movement conservatives.
During a round table discussion on Fox News Sunday, Heritage CEO, Michael Needham (who loves to say Democrat party a little too much) said at first Donald Trump excited the conservative base by releasing his Supreme Court nominee list, which the Heritage Foundation called "excellent," but then had conservatives scratching their heads, wondering if he's "a fraud."
Substitute host, John Roberts asked Needham if Trump had bent over backwards enough to placate conservatives on the issue of the Supreme Court, when he said, "I mean it really seems like he's got to go to great lengths to keep people with him."
The Heritage CEO responded by saying, initially the list was "phenomenal" but...