I guess Jews weren’t able to rule Ann Coulter out of public life after her impolitic tweets of last September.
She seems like the most powerful writer in the world these days as she has Donald Trump’s ear. Jews in the media hate her, but they can’t stop her.
Glenn Thrush writes: Last month, when a pivoting Trump suggested that there might be a “softening” of his career-defining immigration plan, the polemicist, author and cable news stalwart responded with a Twitter rebuke. And that, according to people in Trump’s orbit, helped convince the candidate that he couldn’t flip-flop without losing his base…
Late last year, when Trump was tearing through the Republican field with his immigration message, Coulter kept up a lively correspondence with Conway’s predecessor Corey Lewandowski to offer criticism (she hated Trump’s sneering comments about women’s appearances, especially his slap at Ted Cruz’s wife Heidi, which caused her to call him “mental”) – and to make sure he wouldn’t sell out.
“I was worried, the first few weeks after he announced, and — I haven’t told the other people this — I would email in a point or two now and then, and whatever. Whenever I would email Corey, whatever, ‘Stop re-tweeting ugly photos of opponents’ wives,’ or whatever it was, what the final point was [was] always, ‘Don’t let him back down on immigration,’” she said.
“And Corey was getting a little exasperated with me and kept saying, ‘He’s not backing down,’” she added. “Then he came out for the Muslim ban on my birthday, Dec. 8, my best birthday gift ever. I finally emailed Corey and said, OK, I think he’s not backing down.’”…
“Different cultures have different predilections for different kinds of crime,” she said, sitting in an Upper East Side hotel room with a panoramic view of Manhattan, a beehive of diversity and bastion of liberalism. “We are used to our own criminals. For example, our criminals tend to be stupid. They leave their DNA all over the crime scene. Now we’re getting people where — or cultures where criminality is a way of life. It’s every — even the smart people are criminals, and you have these massive Medicare frauds, massive Medicaid frauds.”
Slow down. All of the Medicaid cheats I grew up with in Brooklyn were Russians, I tell her. And Bernie Madoff, who was born here, ripped off more cash than a million Mexicans. Oh, and I note out the window the black track of Second Avenue, uncoiling into the misty recesses of Lower Manhattan, to point out that in the old days native Protestant New Yorkers used to say the same nasty things about those grubby, throat-cutting Irishmen, Sicilians, Chinese and Jews…
She first met Trump years ago (she can’t quite remember when) and wasn’t especially impressed. “We had had lunch once, and I probably thought of him — until that magnificent Mexican rapist speech — in the way a lot of the Never-Trumpers do,” Coulter said. “He seemed like a — I don’t know, boorish vulgarian. I never really thought about him. I’ve never seen The Apprentice. I don’t get up early enough to listen to Howard Stern. So, you know, I’d see the headlines. I knew that Marla Maples thought it was the best sex she had ever had.”
But all that changed for Coulter when Trump made immigration the centerpiece of his campaign: “And, you know, now, wow, was I wrong.”
Which brings us back to the election. She is very confident Trump will win. And when he wins, she said, he will build the wall and crack down on undocumented immigrants, and damn all that talk of moderating his position. “I’m getting to the point that I’m not sure I trust Jeff Sessions,” she said of the deeply conservative Alabama Republican senator who has suggested, ever so gingerly, that Trump might have to modify his stance to garner greater popular support.