Donald Trump to Brody File: Obama's Campaign 'Are Not Nice People,' Says Romney Needs to 'Fight Back Viciously'

Donald Trump tells The Brody File that people inside President Obama’s campaign “are vicious people” and that Mitt Romney needs to fight back hard against them.

“I would tell Mitt Romney these are not nice people, these are vicious people and you have to fight back viciously,” Trump said.

The one-on-one interview was conducted with Donald Trump in the “boardroom” at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Sarasota, Fla., Sunday evening. Trump was in town to pick up the GOP "Statesman of the Year" Award from the Sarasota Republican Party.

Watch the interview below along with a full transcription.

More of the interview can be seen on The Brody File’s national TV Show this Friday at 9:30 a.m. ET on the ABC Family Channel.

David Brody: Let me ask you about Mitt Romney, if you were in a room with Mitt Romney, and I know you have been, but from here until election day, what would be the advice that you would give Mitt Romney?

Donald Trump: Well, I think he has to just keep going the way he’s going. I would tell him one thing, though. That the other side is a nasty group of people. They were nasty to Hillary Clinton, I’ve heard from other of your brethren where they said it was the nastiest race ever run against Hillary Clinton, how she’s even in that administration is hard to believe. And she’s a wonderful woman, but what they did to her was disgraceful.

And to her husband, they called Bill Clinton a racist and when they did that I thought it was one of the nastiest things I’ve ever heard. The fact is they’re being worse between the word felon and murderer and other things.

So, I would tell Mitt Romney these are not nice people, these are vicious people and you have to fight back viciously, you cannot be politically correct. And I think the Tea Party would be happy to hear that and I think lots of other people would be happy to hear that.

They are known for fighting vicious and lying campaigns, and unless you’re going to fight back and you are going to fight fire with fire, you’re going to have a bad result. And that result will not be acceptable for this country because we are really in trouble right now as a country.