The conservative magazine came out swinging at Donald Trump last night, glittering a royal blue and gold like the robe of a heavyweight champ, but it quickly run afoul of the ref. The Republican National Committee called publisher Jack Fowler last night to inform him that National Review had been disinvited from co-hosting the GOP debate on February 25 with CNN. Fowler wrote, “We expected this was coming. Small price to pay for speaking the truth about The Donald.”
But the fight is just getting started—or at least National Review hopes it is. And it would be unlike Trump, who went after Samuel L. Jackson for far less, to leave it at this:
The late, great, William F. Buckley would be ashamed of what had happened to his prize, the dying National Review!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 22, 2016