Fox News Channel host Laura Ingrahm changed her tune on former President Trump Monday.
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Ingraham, a longtime Trump ally, made the comments on Fox News contributor Lisa Boothe’s podcast.
“Donald Trump’s been a friend of mine for 25 years, and I’m always very open about this on my show, but, you know, we’ll see whether that’s what the country wants. The country I think is so exhausted, they’re exhausted by the battle, the constant battle, that they may believe that, well, maybe it’s time to turn the page if we can get someone who has all Trump’s policies, who’s not Trump. Right?” Ingraham said on “The Truth with Lisa Boothe.”
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“The other concern, though,” Ingraham explained, “and I don’t have a position on this one way or another, but the other problem is that it’s really not about Trump, right, this is about the views that Trump now brought to the floor for the Republican Party. They don’t like his views…These people think that the American way of life is immoral, and it doesn’t really matter in the end if it’s Trump making the populist conservative points or whether it’s DeSantis or someone like him, they’re going to come full boar against any Republican, even an establishment one. You saw what they did to Romney.”
Ingraham’s comments begin around the 23:00 mark:
She added, “Trump is a placeholder for the ire and furry of the Left, but anyone who steps into that breach is going to find the same pain being thrust at him or her.”