Please clap for Mitt Romney's 5 best Donald Trump takedowns

Mitt Romney put Donald Trump on front street.
Mitt Romney put Donald Trump on front street.
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Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney just delivered a takedown of current Republican front-runner Donald Trump.

In a speech on Thursday, Romney made the case for why Trump is bad for America. (In his own Mitt Romney way.) Here are five of his best burns:

"A business genius he is not."

"We've long referred to him as 'The Donald' ... and it wasn't because he had attributes we admired."

"The country would sink into prolonged recession."


"He gets a free ride to the White House and all we get is a lousy hat."

Trump had this to say:
