Karl Rove Warns Trump Of The 1 Move That Will Backfire
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The GOP strategist argued on Fox News that merely finding fraud through the Department of Government Efficiency won't be enough to retain voter approval.
Longtime GOP strategist Karl Rove is warning President Donald Trump that finding fraud in public spending won’t be enough when Democrats actually start demanding prosecutions related to those purported findings from his Department of Government Efficiency.
Trump claimed last week that billionaire DOGE leader Elon Musk has already found “hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud,” and while many Republicans applauded the claim, Rove believes relying on such figures will backfire without actual legal follow-through.
Rove, one of the primary architects of the Iraq War and a senior adviser to former President George W. Bush, made his case on “Sunday Night in America with Trey Gowdy,” urging Fox News viewers and Republican lawmakers to “listen to James Carville.”
Carville, a Democrat strategist, recently suggested his party should “play possum” until public fervor against the GOP reaches fever pitch, then pounce on the Trump administration for failing to fulfill its promises, rather than fecklessly and constantly criticize its leadership.
“If there’s fraud, you want to go after the fraudsters and you want to indict them and recover the money,” Rove said Sunday in agreement. “So the Democrats could conceivably wait a reasonable period of time and then start to say, ‘Where are the prosecutions?’”
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