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Trump hits George W. Bush, McCain in new book: report
The Hill ^ | July 3 2019 | JESSICA CAMPISI

Posted on 07/04/2019 12:30:26 PM PDT by rintintin

President Trump in a new book reportedly takes aim at Republican leaders including former President George W. Bush and the late Sen. John McCain (Ariz.).

In the book, "American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump," by Politico Magazine chief correspondent Tim Alberta, Trump said he "brought the [Republican] Party back" after it was in "big trouble," Axios reported early Wednesday.

Trump reportedly attributed the party's previous failures to his predecessors, including Bush, who "caused tremendous division ... tremendous death and tremendous monetary loss" during his presidency by focusing on foreign operations instead of boosting the domestic economy.

Trump also told Alberta that McCain, who died of brain cancer last August and repeatedly feuded with the president during his time in the White House, hurt his 2008 presidential campaign when he told laid-off Midwestern workers that some of them wouldn't get their jobs back, Axios reports.

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KEYWORDS: americancarnage; gwbush; jessicacampisi; mccain; timalberta; trumpbook; trumpquote
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To: cnsmom

“Reagan should never have trusted the Bushes”

It used to be that Freepers who dared criticize W Bush got royally flamed, or worse.


21 posted on 07/04/2019 1:20:02 PM PDT by rintintin (q)
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To: rintintin

As there was very little in the article and were probably accurate, I have no trust in the honest of a leftist author employed by Politico in quoting anything President Trump may or may not have said.


22 posted on 07/04/2019 2:41:24 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: rintintin

One of W’s first acts was to give Ted “The Swimmer” Kennedy the job of writing the Education Bill.

I lost all confidence in W...and it just got worse over time. He was a total disaster for the Republic.

The Bush family is pure evil.


23 posted on 07/04/2019 2:55:18 PM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" - DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: rintintin

Neither Trump nor Babe Ruth nor Mickey Mantle could smack either one of those losers upside the head hard enough for me.

Swing away, Donald!


24 posted on 07/04/2019 3:37:59 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: rintintin

What a difference a decade and a half makes!


25 posted on 07/04/2019 3:39:46 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: cnsmom
Reagan should never have trusted the Bushes
If Reagan hadn't brought the Bush clan aboard, the GOP would have turned his campaign into Goldwater, Act 2.

The Gipper's mistake was not getting a new running mate for the 1984 election.

26 posted on 07/04/2019 3:45:52 PM PDT by Bratch (IF YOU HAVE SELFISH IGNORANT CITIZENS, YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE SELFISH IGNORANT LEADERS-George Carlin)
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To: pepsi_junkie
The Bushes will likely never win another election on a national level but their minions are still out there, gumming up the works in the White House, the congress, and the bureaucracy as well as sniping at the President from the media.

That's why we need to throw ALL INCUMBENTS OUT!

VOTE THE BUMS OUT!!!


27 posted on 07/04/2019 3:54:51 PM PDT by Bommer (Help 2ndDivisionVet - https://www.gofundme.com/mvc.php?route=category&term=married-recent-ampute)
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To: rintintin

Trump hits George W. Bush, McCain in new book: report

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Oh God, I really hope so. McCain was pure opportunistic scum and “W” is proving to be not far behind.


28 posted on 07/04/2019 4:11:53 PM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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