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.
"Thats 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."
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I love Trump.
Background:
Jeb Bush Got $1.3M Job At Lehman After Florida Shifted Pension Cash To Bank
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3326482/posts
Boom!
bump!
The allegations seem to be true.
It’s like watching an MMA fight, but without the ref stepping in at tap out.
This has to be sad for GHWB, close to death and your son being justifiably beat senseless is your last legacy memory...
Trump spilled the beans BEFORE the Democrats were able to use this. No wonder the Democrats are pulling for Bush to win the nomination. Trump is ruining their plans.
THIS.
This is why Trump is gaining in the polls. No other member of the political elite would dare point out such things.
It wasn’t Jeb that had to show up for work. Just the cash.
that does it for me if I am critical of Hillary for his type of behavior and corruption I got to hold bush to the same standard......as far as I am concerned till I learn otherwise that was a bribe or pay off
exactly ...because they are ALL in on it.
Trump seems to know where the skeletons are all hidden. Not good for the political class.
...no damn teleprompter crutch like POTUS.
It’s almost like T-Rex is reading FR. Keep up the good work Jimbo!
Um, no mystery there, it was a payoff.
That’s because they’re all hoping to similarly cash in, or are already being paid off too.
That was a rather insightful comment. I haven’t once thought of Jeb’s dad through this.
I’m kinda hoping that Amnesty Jeb is reading FR.
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