Another former presidential hopeful, ex-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, has also taken a firm line in defending Akin and helping to pour money into his campaign coffers.
"I had an ex-wife and I had an ex-kid and I had an ex-dog and I had an ex-house and I'm an ex-drunk," he told The Times in 2006.
The operative said Adelson has been pressing Trump to choose the casino owner's longtime ally Newt Gingrich, the ex-House speaker, or another staunchly pro Israel figure who shares Adelson's hawkish views on Israel.
Doug Heye, a former spokesman for the Republican National Committee and top aide to ex-House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va)., said that the GOP comments amount to a pattern with long-term consequences for the Republican Party.
Michael Steel, a former aide to ex-House speaker John Boehner, said Trump had backed himself and Republicans into a corner by insisting on a wall despite a bipartisan agreement in the Senate last month that would have punted a debate over immigration and border security until after a shutdown was first averted.
In Mr Clinton's time, one independent counsel has looked into illegal gifts to the ex-agriculture secretary, another into the ex-housing secretary's lies about payments to his mistress, yet another into the financial affairs of the late commerce secretary.
The ex-House Speaker John Boehner will be holding forth on the virtues of investing in cannabis.
This view of judicial review is also held by some notable GOP conservatives, like ex-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who for years has harangued judges and courts; a few months ago he repeated a long-held view that as president he'd have judges and justices subpoenaed and interrogated before Congress, to justify their rulings.
But the ex-House speaker does not seem to thrive when he is in the leading role.
"Political experience is a hard teacher," said Rick Tyler, a former advisor to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and ex-House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
The fact is that the ex-House speaker had the Republican race in his hands last month and then proceeded to blow it.
