New Trump Challenger Joe Walsh Once Told ‘Irrelevant’ Bill Kristol to ‘Stay in Israel’
Shane Trejo
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Former Congressman Joe Walsh, who lost his U.S. House seat in Illinois after only one term, officially announced today that he will primary challenge President Donald Trump for the Republican nomination in 2020.
BREAKING: “I’m going to run for president,” former Republican Tea Party congressman Joe Walsh announces on @ThisweekABC.
“We’ve got a guy in the White House who is unfit, completely unfit to be president and it stuns me that nobody stepped up” https://t.co/P6iz1j1VA4 pic.twitter.com/0Sct3l7zEc
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) August 25, 2019
Friends, I’m in. We can’t take four more years of Donald Trump. And that’s why I’m running for President.
It won’t be easy, but bravery is never easy. But together, we can do it. Join me… join us: go to https://t.co/d40HA9h2Kz.
Let’s show the world we’re ready to be brave.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) August 25, 2019
One of the men promoting Walsh’s candidacy is neoconservative Bill Kristol, who pushed for Hillary Clinton to be President in 2016. Kristol, who is now funded by Democrat oligarchs, hopes that Walsh can slow down the Trump juggernaut heading into 2020.
Joe Walsh and Bill Weld stand athwart Trumpism, yelling Stop, at a time when very few Republicans are inclined to do so, and very few conservatives have much patience with those who so urge it.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) August 22, 2019
“Walsh’s message is the ‘Emperor has no clothes—and worse, he’s a crackpot.’ The corollary to that is ‘Why are the Republicans playing along when the country is at risk?’” https://t.co/ejQhANRwXr
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) August 22, 2019
The Trump campaign boasts of not being worried about a @WalshFreedom candidacy. Why then did campaign boss @parscale and advisor @KatrinaPierson go out of their way to retweet a nutty anti-Walsh tweet? The bravado of bullies masks a fear of those brave enough to stand up to them. https://t.co/5Hmjii33xV
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) August 24, 2019
However, Walsh has been a sharp critic of Kristol for a long time. He blasted Kristol just last year for being a Never Trumper who wouldn’t vote to confirm conservative jurist Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court due to his hatred of the President.
Nah. Kristol would vote No on Kavanaugh because Trump is President.
That’s all. https://t.co/ANAI1MCpVa
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) September 28, 2018
Other tweets that Walsh has published against Kristol include calling him irrelevant and suggesting he should “stay in Israel,” in what could be considered an anti-Semitic comment of sorts. Ironically, he criticized Kristol’s futile quest to find a challenger to oppose Trump.
Dear @BillKristol
You’re irrelevant
Sincerely,
Joe Walsh https://t.co/HoD8eYjyft
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) June 29, 2017
.@BillKristol should just stay in Israel. For the next 5 months or so. Keep looking for that 3rd candidate while he’s over there.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) June 2, 2016
Kristol must be getting desperate to rally around Walsh, who has claimed former President Barack Obama is a Muslim and frequently used racial slurs on his Twitter account, as his new hope to defeat President Trump in 2020.
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