Former McCain adviser Steve Schmidt trashes Sarah Palin for ‘profound ignorance, brittleness and insanity'

Former Republican consultant Steve Schmidt, a top adviser for John McCain’s failed presidential campaign, blasted Sarah Palin in a brutal attack Thursday after the one-time veep nominee accused him of sabotaging her 2008 national run.

In an interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News late Wednesday night, the former Alaska governor lashed out at Schmidt for endorsing Joe Biden for president, suggesting he and MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace, who also worked on the McCain-Palin campaign, were never on “our team to begin with.”

Schmidt retweeted a video of the interview along with a savage counterattack.

“Ok. I can’t help it,” he wrote. “It has been 12 years since @NicolleDWallace and I had to deal with her paranoia, pathological lying, profound ignorance, brittleness and insanity. We had to deal with her for 70 days.

“It has been amazing to watch her soar and prove all her critics wrong,” he added, sarcastically. “Over the last 12 years. Once she was able to rid herself of the treachery and disloyalty of her staff she soared like an Eagle.... Not.”

Palin, who has appeared in several reality shows since she retired from politics, told Carlson that Schmidt’s and Wallace’s criticism of President Trump is evidence that they are “wolves in sheep’s clothing.”

“To think that they were the ones rolling out, for instance, my candidacy, setting up the interviews,” she said. “There was a lot of sabotage going on there, especially at the end of the game.

“Those of us who were kind of victims of what they’re capable of, it’s kind of vindication for us because, see, told you so, they were never on our team to start with.”

Schmidt, who left the Republican party in 2018, has been blamed for pushing McCain to choose Palin as his running mate against then-candidate Barack Obama.

He and Palin have long traded insults, often blaming each other for wrecking the late senator’s ill-fated campaign.

Wallace, host of the MSNBC political show “Deadline: White House,” has not publicly addressed Palin’s latest attacks.