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Trump: I wanted Bush impeached (2008)
CNN ^ | October 15th, 2008 | Alexander Mooney

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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To: ConservativeDude

Okay, Donald. It is now time to shut up.

Because your popularity has remained high ... so far ... in spite of a few over the top things you said, you have decided you’re invulnerable. You’re not.

I like your positions on immigration very much and on many other issues.

I do not like this ridiculous and unnecessary attack on Bush. Bush never deserved to be impeached. He may have been mistaken on some things he did but he was never a traitor and always loved the country.

Your childish and unnecessary twitter continuation of the fight with Megyn Kelly and your statements like this may wear some of the teflon off.


61 posted on 08/25/2015 11:15:31 AM PDT by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: JohnBrowdie
trumpbots come in for a landing and condemn everything having to do with GWB from the war on terror to the twins

I don't trust Trump and have no plans to vote for him, but the devotion that some conservatives still have towards George W. Bush is strange beyond belief.

Bush campaigned as a Reagan Republican in 2000 and went on to govern like a Clinton liberal. In other words, talk right wing, think or govern left wing. Not so different from Trump, as a matter of fact.

62 posted on 08/25/2015 11:16:19 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: CodeToad

He didn’t deliberately lie, he based his decision on the info presented to him. I think it w as s true, and they took the WMD to Syria before we got there.


63 posted on 08/25/2015 11:16:33 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: ScottinVA

I think his answer would be that he thought we were taking the spoils of war in oil. That was what the anti War Dems were upset about at the time.

That’s what I thought, too. I thought Bush would be smart enough to take the oil!

As for Libya/MB etc., let’s see what he says.

So, are you for JEB!?


64 posted on 08/25/2015 11:17:34 AM PDT by Sontagged (Woe to you when all men shall speak well of you...)
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To: NoDRodee; Regulator; Greetings_Puny_Humans; GladesGuru
The rest of the story From Trumps Book: Bush was a disaster for the country as well as for the Republican Party. Then he asked me about Barack Obama. I told him that Barack will need to be a great president because we’re in serious trouble as a country. It hasn’t been this way since 1929. So he doesn’t have much choice—he will simply have to be great, which he has a very good chance of being. What he has done is amazing. The fact that he accomplished what he has—in one year and against great odds—is truly phenomenal. If someone had asked me if a black man or woman could become president, I would have said yes, but not yet. Barack Obama proved that determination combined with opportunity and intelligence can make things happen—and in an exceptional way. He is not walking into an easy or enviable situation. As of October of 2008, the U.S. government reported a $237 billion deficit. The good news is that Obama seems to be well aware of the situation. His comments have led me to believe that he understands how the economy works on a comprehensive level. He has also surrounded himself with very competent people, and that’s the mark of a strong leader. Where in Donald Trump's book?
65 posted on 08/25/2015 11:19:40 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (Dupes for Donald)
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To: Kartographer
So how come Trump didn’t want Clinton impeached? Why does Trump say that Clinton was a good President? Liberal Donald Trump has said that of the past 4 presidents the lying, impeached rapist Bill Clinton was his favorite.
66 posted on 08/25/2015 11:21:42 AM PDT by South40 (Falling for Trump's rhetoric while ignoring his liberal past is incredibly foolish)
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To: ballearthout
I remember the Bush 43 presidency well. GOPe president and GOPe congress. And nothing changed. More debt, more liberalism. More bs.

I remember this too. I also remember Bush administration support for "nation building" in the Middle East, for TARP, for No Child Left Behind, and for amnesty for illegals.

Bush's die-hard supporters seem to have collective amnesia on all this. No wonder Jeb still manages to poll 10%+ among GOP primary voters.

67 posted on 08/25/2015 11:22:17 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: Sontagged

I don’t get this defense of Bush. Bush was wrong in his policies and a failure in his policies.

The only people defending Bush are those that rooted for him and now are too red faced to admit he was wrong (and thus they were wrong).


68 posted on 08/25/2015 11:23:04 AM PDT by Trumpinator (You are all fired!!! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!)
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To: justlittleoleme

You’re right. I forgot about him registering as a democrat in 2001. Has he ever explained that?


69 posted on 08/25/2015 11:23:39 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: smokingfrog
trump has always been a Republican.

Not true. He is a lifelong liberal who only registered as a Republican in 2009.

70 posted on 08/25/2015 11:24:58 AM PDT by South40 (Falling for Trump's rhetoric while ignoring his liberal past is incredibly foolish)
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To: Sontagged
Worse than the threat of a McCain/Kerry bipartisan ticket in 2004. Worse than the threat of a McCain/Lieberman ticket for Rove/GOPe in 2008.

How are these scenarios are threat? Seems to me these would be win/win for establishment Republicans. A "bipartisan" ticket combining a McCain (or a Bush, or Romney) with a Clintonite liberal isn't so much bipartisan as an acknowledgement that we really have a single party that's been masquerading as two since 1989.

71 posted on 08/25/2015 11:24:58 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: morphing libertarian
Trump will reduce the money we send to mexico if they don’t contribute.

But how is Mexico building the wall when we're using our own money that we might otherwise send to Mexico to do it? That's like instead of giving me $100 bucks you take that money and fixing your door, then claim I paid for it.

72 posted on 08/25/2015 11:27:19 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: nickcarraway

Oooo, I’m busted.

What am I busted for, officer? Am I a covert Michael Moore liberal, a sleeper inserted at FR in 1998, pretending to a fake identity while waiting for the critical moment — the Trump candidacy, obviously — to unmask my sneaky freedom-hating liberal self? Oh, what a crafty and laboriously-constructed persona I have only now cast away! What a shrewd fellow you must be to have detected the truth about one who has deceived so many!

I have seen some richly stupid posts over the years, but am hard pressed to think of any that surpass yours.


73 posted on 08/25/2015 11:28:09 AM PDT by Romulus
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To: justlittleoleme

Does anyone still not believe that Trump is a Democrat stooge?


74 posted on 08/25/2015 11:30:05 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (CA the sanctuary state for stupid.)
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To: DoodleDawg

You are correct but it will be claimed Mexico will have paid.

Also look at the money sent from illegals who work here home. That could be surtaxed before it/s transferred.

If he wants to strong arm Mexico. Then let the games begin. But I’ll take him at his word. Did you just hear the guy on Rush talk about how honorable Trump was in paying him the money the company owed.

I trust him until he show me different. The others I already know they’re week and/or liars.


75 posted on 08/25/2015 11:31:04 AM PDT by morphing libertarian (defund Obama care and amnesty. Impeach for Benghazi and IRS and fast and furious.)
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To: justlittleoleme

It was the CIA that provided the incorrect intelligence and a disgruntled bunch of them that have tried to pin it on Bush ever since...


76 posted on 08/25/2015 11:32:02 AM PDT by Homer1
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To: altura
[Bush] always loved the country.

He loved it so much that he wanted to keep flooding it with illegal immigrants. In fact, Bush loved the US so much that he wouldn't even restrict immigration/travel to the US from the Middle East following 9/11. Evidently, W. could risk hurting the feelings of his Saudi friends and partners.

Everything I've seen from the Bush family suggests that their only love and loyalty is to their clan and to their political/business cronies.

77 posted on 08/25/2015 11:35:25 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: South40
"the lying, impeached rapist Bill Clinton was his favorite."

Well isn't that SPECIAL!
78 posted on 08/25/2015 11:36:19 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: morphing libertarian
You are correct but it will be claimed Mexico will have paid.

I can claim I'm Queen of the World, too. Doesn't make me right.

Also look at the money sent from illegals who work here home. That could be surtaxed before it/s transferred.

And how will you tell the money sent from illegals from the money sent by people here legally?

I trust him until he show me different.

I trust that he probably believes all the stuff he says. But I don't think he has a plan to turn his imaginative offerings into reality.

79 posted on 08/25/2015 11:37:58 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Mike Darancette
Does anyone still not believe that Trump is a Democrat stooge?

Trump strikes me as an opportunist and a showman. He's not for any party or ideology. He's saying the right things on a lot of issues right now, but who knows if he really believes in any of it. Mostly Trump seems to just say things that are provocative and generate a lot of attention and outrage, whether they're "right" or "left".

80 posted on 08/25/2015 11:39:21 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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