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Trump questions why Lehman Brothers paid Jeb Bush '$1.3 million a year for a no-show job'
The Week ^ | 8/27/15 | Becca Stanek

Posted on 08/27/2015 1:54:07 PM PDT by jimbo123

Donald Trump's latest comments earned him a rebuke from a Jeb Bush spokesman for "trafficking in false conspiracy theories" about the former investment bank Lehman Brothers, where Bush worked for a stint after leaving the governor's office in Florida in 2007. Amid Trump's 33 attacks against the Bush family in a 35-minute interview with The Washington Post, he managed numerous times to drop his suspicions that Bush's high salary from Lehman was a "reward for helping direct Florida state funds to the firm, whose collapse in 2008 helped kick off the Great Recession," The Post reports.

"That’s a Hillary Clinton kind of situation," Trump said. "This is huge. Let me ask you: Why would you pay a man $1.3 million a year for a no-show job at Lehman Brothers — which, when it failed, almost took the world with it?" Trump then went on to offer Lehman's crash as evidence that Bush lacks business savvy. When asked whether he thought Bush could "steer the economy," Trump responded: "Steer it? He can't steer himself. Look what he did with Lehman." Trump surmised that the state of Florida "lost a lot of money after Lehman went bad, thanks to Jeb Bush."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corruption; deportjebbush; floridacorruption; floridapensions; lehman; lehmanbrothers
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1 posted on 08/27/2015 1:54:07 PM PDT by jimbo123
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I love Trump.


2 posted on 08/27/2015 1:55:21 PM PDT by DouglasKC (I'm pro-choice when it comes to lion killing....)
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Background:

Jeb Bush Got $1.3M Job At Lehman After Florida Shifted Pension Cash To Bank

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3326482/posts


3 posted on 08/27/2015 1:55:43 PM PDT by jimbo123
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Boom!


4 posted on 08/27/2015 1:56:29 PM PDT by Eddie01
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bump!


5 posted on 08/27/2015 1:57:01 PM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled-...by liars who refuse aththem news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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The allegations seem to be true.


6 posted on 08/27/2015 1:59:36 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: DouglasKC

It’s like watching an MMA fight, but without the ref stepping in at tap out.

This has to be sad for GHWB, close to death and your son being justifiably beat senseless is your last legacy memory...


7 posted on 08/27/2015 1:59:54 PM PDT by Eddie01
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Trump spilled the beans BEFORE the Democrats were able to use this. No wonder the Democrats are pulling for Bush to win the nomination. Trump is ruining their plans.


8 posted on 08/27/2015 2:00:02 PM PDT by forgotten man
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THIS.

This is why Trump is gaining in the polls. No other member of the political elite would dare point out such things.


9 posted on 08/27/2015 2:01:23 PM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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It wasn’t Jeb that had to show up for work. Just the cash.


10 posted on 08/27/2015 2:01:49 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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that does it for me if I am critical of Hillary for his type of behavior and corruption I got to hold bush to the same standard......as far as I am concerned till I learn otherwise that was a bribe or pay off


11 posted on 08/27/2015 2:03:33 PM PDT by PCPOET7
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exactly ...because they are ALL in on it.


12 posted on 08/27/2015 2:03:36 PM PDT by Eddie01
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Trump seems to know where the skeletons are all hidden. Not good for the political class.


13 posted on 08/27/2015 2:05:47 PM PDT by IC Ken
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Trump does have a great memory.

...no damn teleprompter crutch like POTUS.

14 posted on 08/27/2015 2:06:01 PM PDT by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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When will Yeb have enough?


15 posted on 08/27/2015 2:07:19 PM PDT by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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It’s almost like T-Rex is reading FR. Keep up the good work Jimbo!


16 posted on 08/27/2015 2:09:29 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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Um, no mystery there, it was a payoff.


17 posted on 08/27/2015 2:12:57 PM PDT by Wolfie
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That’s because they’re all hoping to similarly cash in, or are already being paid off too.


18 posted on 08/27/2015 2:14:30 PM PDT by Wolfie
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To: Eddie01

That was a rather insightful comment. I haven’t once thought of Jeb’s dad through this.


19 posted on 08/27/2015 2:15:46 PM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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I’m kinda hoping that Amnesty Jeb is reading FR.


20 posted on 08/27/2015 2:17:11 PM PDT by jimbo123
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