How has Newsmax’s chief Trump sycophant, Donald Trump, been sucking up to the big guy since the last time we checked? We’ve already highlighted how Morris fawned over Trump skipping the first Republican presidential debate, but there’s so much more. Let’s look:
- Dick Morris to Newsmax: Trump Will Clinch GOP Nod on March 5, Super Tuesday
- Dick Morris to Newsmax: DOJ Double Standard ‘Unbelievable’
- Dick Morris to Newsmax: ‘Travesty’ to Put Election in Hands of Judiciary
- Dick Morris to Newsmax: Deep State Can’t Stop Trump
- Morris to Newsmax: NY Times Poll Understates Trump Vote
- Morris to Newsmax: Trump Should ‘Go After’ China in Campaign
- Dick Morris to Newsmax: Indictments Making Public Favor Trump
Morris used his June 24 column to gush over how Trump is a coverage magnet compared with the other Republican candidates:
American politics have stopped, frozen by the indictment of Trump for no good reason and the deterioration of Joe Biden.
In theory, this week should have been when the nominating process in each party heated up as candidates took to the runway to launch their campaigns.
But there was zero energy for them.
Trump took away all the air Gov. DeSantis, R-Fla., MikePence, Chris Christie, Nikki Haley, and the others needed.
Right now, in the Republican Party there is room for only two viewpoints: That Trump is guilty or that he is innocent.
DeSantis et al can’t split the difference and say “Trump is the innocent victim of the deep state and is being persecuted by the Democrats but I’m running against him anyway.”
This means there is no place for Trump’s GOP opponents to stand.
[…]Trump is en route to winning the nomination and Biden is en route to losing the election.
Translation?
None needed.
Donald Trump will win.
Morris tried a little rah-rah in a July 20 column, telling readers to demand that Republicans in Congress shut down the tovernment until charges against Trump are dropped (and then weaponize the government against the Biden family):
We cannot tolerate the continued election interference of the Biden administration and its Justice Department in the 2024 elections.
The shocking targeting of former President Donald Trump, now the Republican front-runner for the 2024 election, challenges the very basis of our justice system.
It is vital to our nation’s democracy that we act now and stop this dangerous weaponization of the FBI and the Department of Justice.
I am urging citizens to call Congress today — demand their House representatives and Senators pass no bills, authorize no money, approve no more Biden nominations, do nothing, and block everything — until the Biden administration stops their politicization of justice.
We must also demand the appointment of an independent counsel to investigate the overwhelming and clear evidence of President Joe Biden’s family corruption.
[…]Demand the DOJ do a real investigation of Biden’s family and the tens of millions of dollars they received from foreign governments and powers!Our country is too important to surrender to the far left. Fight back!
Morris also took more shots at Trump’s Republican opponents. He again bashed Ron DeSantis in an Aug. 5 TV appearance:
If Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis doesn’t develop a message to run on, he’ll soon fail to attract other megadonors to his presidential campaign, political author Dick Morris told Newsmax.
When DeSantis announced his candidacy, Morris told “Saturday Report,” he “just naturally assumed that his record in Florida would carry him, and it hasn’t. And when a donor begins to leave, this is not the rat leaving the sinking ship; this is, you know, the crew leaving the sinking ship. And it’s very, very hard to reverse that. I think the key element … is that the DeSantis has to attract other major donors, which basically means: ‘I’m out.'”
Following up on a previous attack on Vivek Ramaswamy — made around the time that Ramaswamy alleged a pay-for-play scheme in which Newsmax claimed he would get more favorable coverage on the channel if he bought more advertising, a la Perry Johnson — Morris was quoted in a Aug. 30 article by Marisa Herman:
“He’s running as a pro-Trump candidate, so voters are asking if he’s so pro-Trump why doesn’t he just endorse the former president and drop out the race,” Dick Morris, a presidential strategist who advises President Trump, told Newsmax.
“And they also ask themselves why pick a 38-year-old amateur who often takes extremist views over Donald Trump, a seasoned pro who has been vetted and can govern from day one,” Morris added.
Herman (and, we presume, Morris) did not mention Ramaswamy’s pay-for-play allegations.
Morris declared that Ramaswamy would not be Trump’s vice presidential candidate should he win the nomination in a Sept. 2 TV appearance:
GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy may be full of compliments about former President Donald Trump, but running against him for the nomination isn’t the way to get to his heart or win a place in his administration, Dick Morris, a former adviser of Trump’s, told Newsmax on Saturday.
Morris, speaking on Newsmax’s “Saturday Report,” told host Rita Cosby that there may be a place for the Ohio entrepreneur in Trump’s cabinet, should the former president return to the White House, but he doesn’t think Trump would pick Ramaswamy as a running mate.
“Those who believe that the correct way to appeal to Donald Trump’s heart is to run against him in the primary are wrong,” Morris said. “He has no love for his opponents and whether they say good things or bad things about him.”
[…]“Ramaswamy is the only one that seems to be getting any traction, [by] running on a platform of being just like Trump. From the words of the song, ‘there ain’t nothing like the real thing.'”
Again, there was no mention of Ramaswamy’s pay-for-play allegations.
Interestingly, in the midst of all this, Morris did let a non-sycophantic opinion about Trump slip through. In an Aug. 14 TV appearance, Morris said that Trump will be “convicted” on charges and is “gonna go to prison,” though he was quick to blame “a biased jury pool” — never mind that none of the indictments has advanced to a trial phase and, thus, there is no jury yet — and insisted that “It will not make any difference at all. He is going to be able to win this election no matter what they throw at him.” Newsmax didn’t promote that claim, of course.