Posted on 08/25/2015 10:21:05 AM PDT by justlittleoleme
Business mogul Donald Trump told CNN Wednesday House Speaker Nancy Pelosi should have sought to impeach President Bush when she had the chance.
In an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Trump said the president and his administration deliberately lied about the Iraq war, and congressional Democrats missed an opportunity to impeach him when the party took control of Congress in 2006.
"I was surprised that she didn't do more in terms of Bush and going after Bush," Trump said. "It was almost - it just seemed like she was going to really look to impeach Bush and get him out of office, which personally I think would have been a wonderful thing."
Pressed why he feels Bush deserved the punishment faced by only two other commanders-in-chief, Trump said the president misled the country in the run-up to the Iraq war, and that his actions were considerably more objectionable than those which led to the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton.
"He lied. He got us into the war with lies," Trump said. And I mean - look at the trouble Bill Clinton got into with something that was totally unimportant. And they tried to impeach him, which was nonsense. And yet Bush got us into this horrible war with lies, by lying, by saying they had weapons of mass destruction, by saying all sorts of things that turned out not to be true."
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Maybe he’s a plant from the other side. I sure hope he does not get the nomination.
wowza.
he may pick up some paul votes with this statement...and certainly takes a little steam out of the D’s...not much, but a little....
trumpbots come in for a landing and condemn everything having to do with GWB from the war on terror to the twins in . . . 3 . . . 2 . . . 1
He’s just what the progressives call “party fluid”.
I’m sure that means harmless!
Does someone here on FR have the WMD revelations in Iraq from last year?
Transpolitical? I like it!
Caitlyn Trump 2016!
Check this out.
(2014)
The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons
Check this out.
The catalyst for Trump’s views is the same catalyst for so many of us conservatives when we realized George W Bush is a Liberal.
Just shows Trump was ahead of the current anti-Uniparty, anti-GOPe curve.
Excellent news. Good for Trump. I got banned from *coughsomewherecough* for exactly the same sentiment, though it was a few years earlier during Bush’s Amnesty putsch.
Oh snap! Almost tempted to steal that for a tagline but I feel I’d still want to pay royalties!
Oh, you were already here.
Sorry for the ping!
Seventy years on, we are still discovering things the Natzis hid.
You guys weren’t around FR, I guess during 2003-2007 when conservatives woke up to the fact that Bush was an operational liberal.
Open borders while we were at war; pushing Amnesty, big pharma etc., etc.
Now we found out Bush and Rove KEPT FUNDING PLANNED PARENTHOOD through out Bush’s tenure — though they lied about it.
Trump was right just as us real conservatives were right about Bush.
I suspect the WMD claim was based on classified information that Bush could not reveal, yet, he wanted to use it. As President he should have either revealed the information or not used it as a basis for war.
Gotta give the Donald props for this.
Clinton committed perjury - and that was nothing
Bush used Clinton’s intel and he should be impeached.
The Clinton defender is a Conservative pretender
So how come Trump didn’t want Clinton impeached? Why does Trump say that Clinton was a good President?
Did he lie about WMD in Iraq?
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