“Trump, for his part, couldn’t have done more to make Romney look like a weak nominee. At times he seemed to outright dare Romney to either take his side or try and stop him, tweeting that Republicans risked losing the election if they tried to ‘disavow the place of birth movement’ and telling the Huffington Post’s Jon Ward that Romney had never told him to lay off the birther stuff.” Emphasis added.
“Why Mitt Romney Keeps Donald Trump Around,” Benjy Sarlin and Evan McMorris-Santoro, Talking Points Memo
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