Jindal: Trump insecure, weak and dangerous

by Jesse Byrnes - 09/10/15 11:09 AM ET

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Thursday unloaded on fellow GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, calling the front-runner “insecure,” “weak” and “dangerous.”

“It’s clear Donald Trump has never read the Bible. The reason we know he’s never read the Bible? He’s not in the Bible,” Jindal quipped in one attack line.

{mosads}”Just because a lot of people like watching Kim Kardashian — we wouldn’t put her in the White House, either,” Jindal said in another jab at the brash billionaire.

Jindal launched sprawling barbs at Trump in a speech at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., with more than two-dozen references to the businessman.

“Donald Trump is not a serious candidate. He’s a narcissist, he’s an egomaniac. The only thing he believes in is himself,” Jindal said. “Everybody knows this is true.

“He is an entertaining narcissist, but he is still a narcissist,” Jindal said. “Like all narcissists, Donald Trump is insecure and weak. He’s afraid of being exposed. That’s why he tells us, always and constantly, how big and strong and wealthy he is.”

Jindal has 1 percent support nationally in a CNN/ORC International poll released Thursday that found Trump up to 32 percent support among Republicans.

Like other candidates polling in single digits, Jindal has recently sought to go after Trump, most recently releasing a video on Wednesday mocking his “winning” catchphrase.

The Louisiana governor sprinkled his Trump attacks on Thursday with acknowledgements that he likes the idea of someone going after the “D.C. political class.”

“His diagnosis on the political class is right, his prescription is wrong — his prescription is that he is the solution,” Jindal said of the real estate tycoon.

“Donald Trump is dangerous,” Jindal continued. “The question for conservatives is this: Are we going to rely and trust proven conservative principles or we are going to turn to a man who believes in nothing but himself?

“People are hungry and eager to get the idea of America back. … The idea of America is slipping away, and the people can see it,” Jindal added.

“Donald Trump could destroy America’s chance to be great again.”

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