Verified sources.
Clear updates.
In 2016, a month before the presidential election that Donald Trump would win, the longtime Republican strategist Scott Jennings described him as “a vulgar, crude, braggadocious, desperate-to-impress playboy who tends to view most everything through a sexual lens”. After Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, Jennings excoriated Trump’s conduct during the January 6 Capitol insurrection, saying he “clearly violated his oath of office to preserve, protect and defend the constitution to the best of [his] ability”. When Trump was in the political wilderness in 2022, Jennings said the party “[needs] a new nominee”, later encouraging the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, to launch a primary challenge. “There’s only one strategy for getting rid of Trump: it’s to beat his ass,” he said the following year. So why exactly is the 48-year-old conservative TV pundit being considered “an early favorite” to serve as Trump’s top spokesperson, replacing the departing Karoline Leavitt as White House press sec.
Missing media or need the complete publisher report? Open The Guardian World
Media link supplied by the Scoop Newsroom app.
The text below was supplied by the Scoop Newsroom app. Third-party reporting is attributed in the source panel.
No additional independently verified detail is available beyond the summary above. The original reporting remains linked in the source panel.
Breaking news moves fast. Follow @Will466513 on X for breaking news alerts. Follow on X →
Dated changes to this report are shown here as they are published.
Removed by Scoop Timeline eligibility policy
In 2016, a month before the presidential election that Donald Trump would win, the longtime Republican strategist Scott Jennings described him as “a vulgar, crude, braggadocious, desperate-to-impress playboy who tends to view most everything through a sexual lens”. After Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, Jennings excoriated Trump’s conduct during the January 6 Capitol insurrection, saying he “clearly violated his oath of office to preserve, protect and defend the constitution to the best of [his] ability”. When Trump was in the political wilderness in 2022, Jennings said the party “[needs] a new nominee”, later encouraging the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, to launch a primary challenge. “There’s only one strategy for getting rid of Trump: it’s to beat his ass,” he said the following year. So why exactly is the 48-year-old conservative TV pundit being considered “an early favorite” to serve as Trump’s top spokesperson, replacing the departing Karoline Leavitt as White House press sec.
Removed by Scoop Timeline eligibility policy
