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Trump Is a ‘Blowhard,’ ‘I Don’t Like Him’ and I Voted for Hillary, George Bush Says in New Book
Newsweek ^ | November 4, 2017 | Greg Price

Posted on 11/04/2017 6:52:28 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Both former President Bushes had choice words for current President Donald Trump in a new book scheduled to be published later this month, with the elder Bush reportedly calling the billionaire commander-in-chief a “blowhard” and flatly stating he does not “like” him.

Presidents George Bush and George W. Bush, the 41st and 43rd top executives respectively, spoke to author Mark K. Updegrove for the book “The Last Republicans.” It detailed the relationship between the father-and-son presidents and how they were fretful of what Trump had done to the Republican Party.

Furthermore, both ex-presidents admitted they did not vote for Trump. The elder Bush pulled the lever for Democrat Hillary Clinton while the younger told Updegrove he voted for “none of the above.”

“I don’t like him,” George Bush said in May 2016 according to a The New York Times on Saturday. “I don’t know much about him, but I know he’s a blowhard. And I’m not too excited about him being a leader.

George W. Bush took umbrage with Trump’s divisive brand of political machinery, a common accusation the current president faced along the campaign trail as throughout his first year in office.....

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Campaign News; Parties
KEYWORDS: 2016; bookreview; bush; bush41; bush43; bushfamily; georgehwbush; georgewbush; hillary; rino; trump; turncoat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In retrospect, the only good thing to say about W was that he wasn’t Gore.


61 posted on 11/04/2017 7:17:51 AM PDT by x1stcav (We have the guns. Do we have the will?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They love the Clintons so much, yet we’re supposed to believe that Jeb(!) would have been a viable candidate against her.


62 posted on 11/04/2017 7:18:01 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines (Their side circles the wagons. Our side revs up the bus.)
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To: central_va

Cruz wouldn’t even endorse Trump, why do you think he voted for him? He didn’t wake up and smell his own bacon burning until several months after the inauguration.


63 posted on 11/04/2017 7:18:55 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: DoodleBob

That article was great, spot on. Freakin’ guy said not ONE word when the employee of the Muslim brotherhood was committing one act of treason after another, reinforcing the enemy, giving back everything our vets fought for to the enemy, and as soon as Trump runs here comes stuttering GW shooting his mouth off now he’s bad mouthing Trump. F the country, the Bush monarchy is more important.


64 posted on 11/04/2017 7:19:13 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Trump: Greatest POTUS of all time solely for preventing Satan taking office.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Oh, the envy and jealousy by despising underachievers. Little men, trying to diminish a man who is smarter than his critics.
65 posted on 11/04/2017 7:19:44 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: jospehm20

The old man is a hack. His son is a blubbering retard.


66 posted on 11/04/2017 7:19:51 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: central_va

I heard through my contact on the campaign that Cruz did.


67 posted on 11/04/2017 7:19:57 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: usual suspect

Good post! And the reason none of us bought Yeb.


68 posted on 11/04/2017 7:20:46 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Newsweek and the MSM truly are getting desperate to keep manufacturing the idea that we should not like our President. NOW they care about W’s opinions??? ROFLMBO!!!


69 posted on 11/04/2017 7:21:12 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Haiku Guy

When corruption is SOP it ceases to matter.


70 posted on 11/04/2017 7:21:15 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: RegulatorCountry

You are right. My instincts tell me that no US Senators voted for Trump. Not one.


71 posted on 11/04/2017 7:21:16 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

GWB book tour. PLEASE CLAP


72 posted on 11/04/2017 7:21:45 AM PDT by just me (God bless President Trump and the USA)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The liberal Bushes just forever buried their political stock. It’s gone forever now. And yes they are all out of touch and irrelevant. I think its about time the justice department start going after Hillary full force. Nothing will shut the criminal establishment up until they see their crimes prosecuted.


73 posted on 11/04/2017 7:22:22 AM PDT by inchworm
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

More winning. Nothing like smoking them all out.


74 posted on 11/04/2017 7:22:39 AM PDT by Mouton (The MSM is a clear and present danger to the republic.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
The chief engineers of the Cheap Labor Express.

Winner winnner chicken dinner!

75 posted on 11/04/2017 7:24:34 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: dead

Jeb Bush even running for President is prima facie evidence of his insanity.

To think that a guy who’s father AND brother were both Presidents (bad ones) thinks he should be President too and would spend a 100 million dollars to run when he had NO CHANCE IN HELL OF GETTING THE NOMINATION OR BEATING SHRILLARY, that’s just severe megalomania coupled with psychotic delusion.


76 posted on 11/04/2017 7:24:52 AM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
High dudgeon from the Skull and Bones board of Kennebunkport Influence Peddlers LLC?

Good.

I have news for the Bush family- their disdain for DJT can be no greater than my family's disdain for them... and we were all backers in 2000/2004. We should have known that the apple didn't fall far from the tree.

Mr. niteowl77

77 posted on 11/04/2017 7:26:43 AM PDT by niteowl77
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To: G Larry

Bush-4l was just never that ambitious as a President to begin with. His ratio of “Veto” to “Signed” was DISMAL, passing virtually everything that crossed his desk, with a special outreach to Ted Kennedy’s agenda.

Only the response to Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait redeems him in the least, and the “softball” approach to the Saudis both before and after the the events in the Persian Gulf diminish even that.

If there was to be an invasion anywhere in the Middle East, it should have been to capture the capital at Riyadh, and the Saudis deposed. Unfortunately, there are no “moderate” Arabs in all of Saudi Arabia, so whoever took over would be at least as militant as the Saud family.


78 posted on 11/04/2017 7:27:15 AM PDT by alloysteel (The rhetorical question, "How stupid can you be?" is just considered to be a challenge by some.)
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To: just me

Make that GHW Bush.


79 posted on 11/04/2017 7:27:51 AM PDT by just me (God bless President Trump and the USA)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In hindsight, Perot was the original Trump when he challenged Bush. Unfortunately that may have lent a hand to Clinton winning, but if we had only known then what we know now.


80 posted on 11/04/2017 7:27:53 AM PDT by Golden Eagle (Seeking the Light)
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