Right-wing pundit Ann Coulter says she’ll be holding her nose as she casts a ballot for Donald Trump this November.
During an appearance on C-Span’s “Washington Journal” on Sunday, the conservative author said she’ll be voting for the former president this fall, even though she says she believes Trump himself is an “awful, awful person.”
Coulter didn’t exactly inspire confidence as she told host Peter Slen about her worries that Trump could tank the entire Republican Party, explaining how she’s voting for Trump “because if he loses, he will be running again in four years, and then he will have lost four successive elections for us.”
While Coulter said she was all for Trump’s vice presidential pick, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), she called the man at the top of the ticket totally untrustworthy.
“Truthfully, I really like his choice of JD Vance, which I’d recommended back in May,” she explained. “Can’t trust Trump as far as I can throw him, but I do trust JD Vance to care about the left-behind people.”
Coulter complimented Trump’s overall impact on the GOP, but she said he didn’t deliver on his campaign promises during his four years in office.
When Slen reminded her about the pro-Trump book she published in 2016, Coulter said: “I do think the 2016 Trump campaign, it was one of the greatest campaigns in world history, and in part because it really changed the Republican Party to a party I preferred.”
Citing the former president’s stances on trade and the border, she added: “I’ve been waiting to vote for that basket of issues, it feels like my entire life.”
Coulter joins a number of her fellow conservatives who have said they intend to support or vote for Trump in November, despite having previously called him “ unhinged ” ( Nikki Haley ), “ practically and morally responsible ” for the 2021 Capitol insurrection ( Mitch McConnell ), “ reprehensible ” (Vance himself), and someone who committed “ a betrayal of his office ” ( Bill Barr ).
On Sunday, Coulter told Slen she’s always been honest about Trump’s character.
“I loved Trump coming out and saying, ‘Yeah, I’m rich and I’m going to fix the country,’” Coulter said. “The main reason, and if you read the book, by the way, I make it very clear that personally, Trump is an awful, awful person. We are making an exception this one time because we need a wall on the border.”
The political pundit was more harsh when asked for her take on Trump in a post on X, formerly Twitter, last summer.
When someone wondered how the ex-president could help “take America back,” Coulter suggested: “Maybe he could die?”
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