Wall Street Journal fires back at Trump: ‘The truth hurts’
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board on Friday fired back at Donald Trump after the Republican presidential candidate called them “dummies.”
The Journal’s editorial said that earlier this week, it “accurately noted that Hillary Clinton has received about a million more votes” than Trump during their respective primaries.
{mosads}”The truth hurts, though Mr. Trump would rather walk down Fifth Avenue shooting the messenger,” the newspaper wrote.
Trump posted a pair of tweets on Thursday in response to a Journal editorial that criticized him for refusing to participate in a debate next week, for being unwilling to consult foreign policy experts and other issues.
The businessman noted that the newspaper said Clinton has received more votes than he has, calling it “bad at math” and saying that Clinton “only had 3 opponents – I had 16.”
The editorial board responded by arguing that Trump has benefitted from a historically crowded GOP field, where votes have splintered among many rivals.
“Actually his rise has been cleared by the large and fractured GOP field. Of the 20.35 million GOP primary votes cast so far, he has received 7.54 million, or a mere 37%,” the editors wrote.
“Despite the media desire to call him unstoppable, Mr. Trump is the weakest Republican front-runner since Gerald Ford in 1976,” the newspaper said.
Among his tweets Thursday, Trump called for an apology minutes before suggesting he didn’t care about the editorial. The Journal responded: “we’re glad he’s such a loyal reader.”
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