Potential Trump VP Pick Once Slammed ‘Self-Promoter’ Trump Online
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), considered by many to be on Donald Trump’s short list of potential vice president candidates, used to harshly criticize the former president online, railing against him for his trade policies and birtherism comments about Barack Obama.
The posts resurfaced Friday in a report by CNN’s KFile, which also uncovered decade-old interviews in which Donalds, then a failed Tea Party candidate for Congress, regularly spoke against Trump and defended Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT).
That included a Facebook post by Donalds in May of 2011 in which he insinuated that he was relieved Trump wasn’t going to make a push for the White House in 2012.