Steele, left, is accusing Priebus of wasting the RNC's money. | AP Photos Steele criticizes Priebus

Former RNC chairman Michael Steele launched another attack on his successor Tuesday — including accusing Reince Priebus of “dumping” on his legacy and wasting the committee’s money.

Steele on WMAL’s “Mornings on the Mall” was unsparing in his criticism of the man who served as the RNC’s general counsel while he was chairman, accusing Priebus of exaggerating the financial straits of the GOP when he took over in 2011.


“The bottom line: Reince Priebus was my right hand,” Steele said. “I mean, what annoys the heck out of me is that for two years Reince Priebus was in every room I was in, a part of every major decision I made for how much money we would spend, what we would spend that money on, what the priorities of the RNC would be.”

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Steele said Priebus approved of his plan to go into $20 million in debt to help win the 2010 elections, where Republicans retook control of the House and made huge gains in state legislatures and governors’ offices.

“For him to sit there and act like he had nothing to do with it and that somehow he inherited this mess that he helped create, to me is just pure BS,” Steele said. “I kept my mouth shut for two years because, hey, I’m a party guy. But you know what, at the end of the day, you say to yourself, ‘they’re dumping on you, they’re crapping on your legacy, they’re giving you crap for stuff that they didn’t want to do in the first place.’”

Steele has long taken the occasional shot at Priebus and mused about challenging him after the party’s 2012 failures, but he has stepped up his criticism since the Republican National Committee released an “autopsy” of its efforts.

“Let me get this straight: you spent $10 million to find out that we have a problem?” Steele said. “Hello? Don’t get me started.”

The $10 million is actually the amount Priebus has said the GOP will spend on reaching out to minority communities.

Steele also defended his spending as RNC chairman, including an incident where a staffer spent $2,000 at a bondage-themed strip club in Los Angeles. Steele said he fired the employee and recovered the money.

“I didn’t even get to go to the club, for God’s sake,” Steele said. “Please. If I’m going to spend $2,000 at a strip club, I’m going to be at the strip club. I’m not going to send a surrogate.”

Steele did back down from an earlier physical threat against Priebus.

“I don’t want to beat him up,” Steele said of Priebus. “I just want to put my record up against his.”

Earlier this month, Steele told a radio host he could “clean [Priebus’] clock” with “just one knock on the head. It’s over. It’s done.”