Getty Trump blames Romney for super PAC attacks

Donald Trump took a swipe at Mitt Romney on Wednesday night, complaining to a TV interviewer that the 2012 Republican nominee was attacking him via a new super PAC formed for that purpose.

Trump, speaking to Fox News host Greta Van Susteren, was asked about Our Principles, the group run by former top Romney aide Katie Packer that has been running ads portraying him as a fake conservative.


“They are all aiming at me, I guess, and that’s fine. And so far, it‘s been only driving my numbers up. They should have devoted more time to Mitt Romney and helped him win instead of looking at, you know, taking other people down,” Trump said.

“And now Romney is doing a PAC, because Romney feels badly, because frankly that was an election that he should have won,” he continued.

Our Principles, which is not associated with Romney, launched just before the Iowa caucuses and spent $2.5 million on ads attacking Trump there. The group is now planning a media blitz in South Carolina.

“Four years ago, they should have won that election easily and they failed. So these people that — these ex-Romney people should have focused more on getting Romney elected instead of doing super PACs,” Trump said.