Sen. Mitt Romney has come under fire from Sen. Donald Trump’s campaign over a passage from the retiring senator from Utah’s new autobiography that purported the former president once boasted of his plans to “drop” his then-girlfriend Melania via Newsweek.
Romney and the former president met when they both attended a New England Patriots game as guests of owner Robert Kraft, according to an excerpt from Romney: A Reckoning by McKay Coppins that Rolling Stone was able to secure.
“Trump sidled up to Romney’s son Josh and pointed at a leggy brunette across the room. ‘Have you seen my girlfriend, Melania?’ he asked, smirking. ‘When I drop her, the phone is gonna ring off the hook. Every guy in New York wants to go out with her,'” Coppins writes in the book, set to be released on October 24.
Trump’s team hit back, calling Romney “a loser” who was “creating false stories to stay relevant.”
“Mittens is a loser who is ‘retiring’ because he knows he doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of surviving another campaign,” a Trump spokesperson told Rolling Stone.
Donald Trump’s team has lashed out at Sen. Mitt Romney over an excerpt from the retiring Utah senator’s new biography that claimed the former president once bragged of his plans to “drop” his then girlfriend Melania.
In an extract from Romney: A Reckoning by McKay Coppins, obtained by Rolling Stone, The Atlantic staff writer wrote of the Republican Utah senator’s encounter with the former president when they both attended a New England Patriots game as guests of owner Robert Kraft.
“Trump sidled up to Romney’s son Josh and pointed at a leggy brunette across the room. ‘Have you seen my girlfriend, Melania?’ he asked, smirking. ‘When I drop her, the phone is gonna ring off the hook. Every guy in New York wants to go out with her,'” Coppins writes in the book, set to be released on October 24.
Trump’s team hit back, calling Romney “a loser” who was “creating false stories to stay relevant.”
“Mittens is a loser who is ‘retiring’ because he knows he doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of surviving another campaign,” a Trump spokesperson told Rolling Stone.
“He should stop lying and creating fake stories in order to stay relevant. The fact is that he dropped the ball when he ran against Barack Obama and is partially responsible for the mess America is in.”
Rolling Stone did not say exactly when the encounter at the Patriots game occurred, but Romney and Trump were photographed at the playoff game between the Patriots and Tennessee Titans on January 10, 2004. Trump proposed to Melania in April that year, and they were married at Mar-a-Lago the following January.
