Because he has a new (Newsmax-published) book out making the low-stakes prediction that Donald Trump will run for president in 2024, Dick Morris is n full Trump suck-up mode. He gushed in a July 20 Newsmax TV appearance:
Ivana Trump was “dignified, proper, and almost noble,” Dick Morris told Newsmax on Wednesday, as Donald Trump’s first wife was about to be buried in New York City following her death last week.
Morris, an adviser to Donald Trump, told “John Bachman Now” that he met Ivana decades ago when she came to dinner with her husband at the house of his parents.
“Ivana had just broken her leg and it was in a cast,” Morris recalled, saying that he remembered how he and his wife Eileen “were both struck at how considerate Donald was in the way he dealt with her, helping her in the chair, helping her up. He was really a doting husband.”
Morris made sure not to mention that Donald Trump cheated on Ivana, then dumped her for Marla Maples. He did, however, push his dubious evergreen prediction that Hillary Clinton will also run in 2024.
Morris used an Newsmax TV appearance the next day to defend Trump against a conservative Washington Post columnist who opposed a Republican coronation for Trump in 2024:
Political strategist and bestselling author Dick Morris Thursday on Newsmax accused The Washington Post of reporting “fake news” with an opinion piece stating it would be better for former President Donald Trump to have several opponents in the 2024 GOP primary than it would for him to be unopposed.
“That is pure fake news and propaganda by the Washington Post,” Morris, the host of Newsmax’s show “Dick Morris Democracy” and author of the book “The Return: Trump’s Big 2024 Comeback,” said on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.” “That’s just [owner] Jeff Bezos trying to gin up a primary against Trump.”
He added that in the latest poll by Trump pollster John McLaughlin, “who I trust,” the matchup between Trump and his nearest potential contender Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has a wide gap, with 59% backing Trump and 15% for DeSantis.
“That’s a 44-point gap,” said Morris. “Only a moron runs in the face of a 44-point gap.”
Columnist Mark Thiessen wrote in his column for the Post that if there is a divided field with a dozen or more candidates, he will “likely prevail” for the nomination with a plurality of Republican voters.
Thiessen further pointed out that support for a future Trump candidacy has dropped by 29 points in the past nine months.
Morris didn’t mention that Thiessen is a solid conservative, nor did he produce any evidence that the column was mandated by Bezos — or even that Bezos plays any sort of active role in running the paper.
Morris complained about Democratic gamesmanship in a July 24 TV appearance:
Democrats are not only paying up to try to boost candidates they think they can beat in 2022 midterms, but they are also funding potential 2024 GOP presidential primary challengers against former President Donald Trump, fearing his return, according to political strategist Dick Morris on Newsmax.
Morris’ new book “The Return: Trump’s Big 2024 Comeback” was recently released and has become an instant best-seller.
“I think we Republicans have to basically say that Donald Trump wants this – which he clearly does, and is going to run, which he clearly will – that we have to tell our people, ‘No primary fight,'” Morris told Sunday’s “Wake Up America Weekend.” “Don’t let the Democrats say, ‘let’s you and him fight.’
“Don’t let them divide and conquer. Don’t let them drain the resources of our ultimate candidate by setting up primary fights that go nowhere.”
We don’t recall Morris ever complaining about Rush Limbaugh’s “Operation Chaos” plan to have Republicans meddle in Democratic primaries, so his concern here is a bit hypocritical.
Morris was back in defender mode in a July 25 appearance, this time insisting that thte Capitol riot was no big deal and Trump shouldn’t be blamed for it:
Anyone who “wants to blow the Jan. 6 thing out of proportion” to say former President Donald Trump is unworthy of being president, “they’re absolutely almost sick,” political strategist and author Dick Morris told Newsmax.[…]
“He told me that he’s going to win the nomination and I think, win the election, but Republicans are increasingly doing the bidding of the Democratic Party,” Morris said. “They have a master plan that I reveal in this book to divide the [Republican] Party.
“It’s the old Roman slogan, divide and conquer, and what they’re trying to do is to lure other Republicans into the primary fight against Trump.”
One way to do that is with “exaggerated stories about how damaged he is from the Jan. 6 commission,” Morris said. “Every time any of those people sneezes, they get a front page cover.”
Morris’ comments come in response to an editorial in The Wall Street Journal slamming Trump in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol protest, and another appearing in The Washington Post.
“We have to realize that Trump is going to be the nominee,” Morris said. “You either help him or hurt him.”
Morris added, “My God, look at what the man has achieved,” which we presume he meant in a good way.