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."
(Excerpt) Read more at theweek.com ...
Every Insult In the Book, and Then Some (the emotional litmus test)
Every Insult In the Book, and Then Some (the emotional litmus test)
I’m beginning to think someone on Trump’s team is a FReeper.
Well, going after patronage jobs awarded to politicians and their relatives is the most sacred of sacred cows in the world of politics- meets- business
This is.why dc is.terrified of trump. He will just toss the.skeletons and dead bodies to the public
The best part is that it's REAL blood and REAL pain.
Sorry, watching some self-entitled bozo getting the arrogant khit sicked out of him is vastly amusing. Daddy and his big brother promised him that he would get to ride the Big Blue Airplane, and some meanie, with funny hair, comes along and pees in the sandbox.
YEB would have said something about kicking out the illegals, if someone had told him!
They’re holding a fundraiser for ¡Jebbie!, in Houston, in October.
GHW, Bar and W will be in attendance. I would imagine Mattress Mack McIngvale will have something to do with it, as well. He’s a huge Bush fan.
.......The event, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, will take place in Houston. In order to attend, donors must raise at least $50,000, while a picture with the two former presidents will require $100,000 threshold.
The appearances build onto a fundraising email that George W. Bush sent out Thursday on behalf of his brother, urging donors to back his younger brother. “With his strengths and your support, he will succeed,” the email stated......
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/21/politics/bush-fundraiser/
I was gonna say: “That is a silly question.” just to the title, until I read further and saw that it was just rhetorical and that Trump knew exactly why.
Yeah, Republicans and Democrats alike always seem to get sweetheart jobs or huge, outrageous speaking fees from people, foreign countries or companies who their policies could have affected while in office.
Coincidence? LOL
I love it and I’m laughing too.
Your comments are so true.
Jeb and Chelsea: two peas in a pod. Ain’t having a daddy for pres grand?
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