Conservative pundit Ann Coulter has launched an assault on Donald Trump, calling the previous president a "liar and con man" after he criticized politicians who refuse to say whether or not they've acquired a COVID-19 booster shot—an obvious swipe at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

Trump made the feedback throughout an interview on the One America Information Community, condemning "gutless" public figures who will not affirm or deny if they've had the third dose of the vaccine.

He mentioned: "I've had the booster. Many politicians—I watched a few politicians be interviewed and one of many questions was, 'Did you get the booster?' as a result of they'd the vaccine, they usually're answering like … In different phrases, the reply is 'sure' however they do not need to say it as a result of they're gutless."

Though Trump didn't point out DeSantis by title, the remarks are regarded as partly directed on the governor, who has swerved questions on whether or not he has had a booster shot in current weeks.

Coulter, who was as soon as a staunch supporter of Trump however turned on him for his failure to behave on his promise to construct a wall alongside the U.S.-Mexico border, mocked him for the booster remarks on Twitter on Wednesday.

"EXCLUSIVE: Trump is demanding to know Ron DeSantis's booster standing, and I can now reveal it," Coulter tweeted.

"He was a loyal booster when Trump ran in 2016, however then he discovered our president was a liar and con man whose grift was everlasting. I hope that clears issues up."

Coulter, who revealed the fawning ebook InTrump We Belief, E Pluribus Superior! in 2016, has levelled a numbers of insults on the former president in more moderen years.

Throughout an interview on Andrew Sullivan's Dishcast podcast on November 5, 2020, she known as Trump "abjectly silly" and accused him of "immediately betraying his base" for not constructing the wall regardless of this being his major marketing campaign promise.

In Could 2020, Coulter described him as disloyal.

Newsweek has contacted Trump's workplace for remark.

DeSantis is without doubt one of the high-profile GOP lawmakers who've repeatedly dodged questions on whether or not they have had the COVID-19 booster, though his workplace beforehand confirmed that he had a single dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine final April.

"I've achieved no matter I did, the traditional shot, and that on the finish of the day is folks's particular person choices about what they need to do," DeSantis instructed Fox Information' Morning Futures in December when requested concerning the booster.

In an announcement to NBC relating to Trump's remarks, DeSantis' spokeswoman, Christina Pushaw, mentioned: "President Trump didn't point out Governor DeSantis in that interview, so I would not need to make assumptions."

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Ann Coulter known as Donald Trump a "liar and con man" whose "grift is everlasting" after the previous president made a thinly veiled assault on Governor Ron DeSantis.Chip Somodevilla/ PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Photos