Ann Coulter: 'I think this war is a disaster'. Gingrich: If they can't keep the Straits of Hormuz open, this war will in fact be an American defeat before very long

Ann Coulter yesterday. She lost her faith in Trump during his first term.

'I think this war is a disaster. Disaster. Utterly pointless. The three pillars of the Trump campaign, both in 2016 and 2020, that set him apart from every other Republican and every other Democrat. I mean, for the first time, this is the basket of issues I wanted to vote on.

'Number one, the wall, deport illegals, the whole immigration program. Number two, bring back manufacturing, the tariff stuff. I'm all in favor of that. Our working class in America has been absolutely wiped out. I don't think we need a lot of schlock from China. Why are we building them up? I mean, I think a lot of it has to do with labor unions, but solve the problem of labor unions. Don't just outsource everything we make, either by bringing them here to work cheap, or by having it done over there. The third pillar was no more pointless wars.

'...Trump was attacked for the things he said in 2016. Remember, he said, Jeb's father lied us into war. The Wall Street Journal and New York Post assured us that that was going to kill him in South Carolina, biggest military state in the country.

'That was in the South Carolina primary. Next day, primaries hold. Who wins? Huge, huge majority. Donald Trump. We have voted on this over and over and over again.

Now what? We've already had how many? Seven Americans die, not to mention 166 school children in our name for a war that does not make one American safer.'




"I don't care what it costs. If they can't keep it [the Straits of Hormuz] open, this war will in fact be an American defeat before very long," Newt Gingrich

Chris Matthews on an American morning TV news programme called "Morning Joe". He covered the 1980 election campaign.

'Carter was screwed. They never put—they never sent the hostages back until after he'd been beaten by Reagan. And then, when he had left office, they knew exactly what they're doing.

'They decapitated Carter. And I've got to tell you, they're doing the same thing to Trump. They know exactly what the Strait of Hormuz is doing to the oil markets, to the markets generally.

'They know what we're up to, because Trump is on television all the time. They see him. They know how he works and how to hurt him, and they're trying to decapitate him.'