WFB:
It has been almost five years since Steve Schmidt, cofounder of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, tried to persuade then-candidate Donald Trump to hire him as campaign manager but was rejected after Trump assessed him to be a “total idiot” who was “very untrustworthy.”
From a July 2020 report in the New York Post:
Steve Schmidt, one of the co-founders of anti-Trump political action group the Lincoln Project, met with then-candidate Donald Trump and tried to join his campaign during a 2016 Manhattan meeting, sources with knowledge of the conversation told The Post.
But the Republican operative—best known for his work on John McCain’s failed presidential bid before becoming one of the faces of the “Never Trump” movement—failed to get the gig because Trump thought he was a “total idiot,” one of the sources said.
Grrrroooosssssss.
Whutta Schmidthead!
Well, looks like not all of Trumps personnel instincts are bad!