Posted on 08/27/2015 2:21:23 PM PDT by Mariner
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."
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Are the other candidates going after the chosen one, or Trump?
Ask yourself why.
He just doesn’t seem to like Jeb.
It could provide a useful context the next time Yeb begins prattling on about how coldhearted conservatives aren't being welcoming enough to all that cheap illegal labor.
He likes Jeb just fine. Even said he is a nice guy. He just thinks he is a lousy businessman.
Guess that one left a mark :-)
I am visualizing Jebbie pacing his living room, cussing up a storm in Spanish over Trump. This wasn’t supposed to happen.
Noah built the ARCH, but it will take a Trump to build the WALL.
Well, Christie went after both Trump and Bush on the Kelly File this week.
Cruz doesn’t seem to be going after anybody by name or with any specificity.
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
“He just doesn’t seem to like Jeb.”
I have a confession to make: I don’t much like Jebito, either.
Noah’s Arch? Was it a bridge to the arc?
I’ve been waiting for Trump to point out this fact about JEB.
Maybe it was a bridge to Noah’s ARK! There. Fixed it for you.
I know an elderly lady who loves ¡Jeb! and doesn’t care for Trump. She said Trump was born with money! After I pushed my jaw back up, I asked, “And, Bush wasn’t”?
Yup, ole iYeb is going to need a squirt of bactine after that!
*Well, I spelled it wrong, too.
S/b Ark.
:-)
I would think Mr Trump would fully understand the term BRIBERY!
At this stage and given the situation, Cruz is being very wise. Walker, Paul, JEB, and Kasich are shooting themselves in the foot. After Trump, only Cruz, Carson and Fiorina have any traction. The rest will fold by the end of the year, if not sooner. The PACs supporting JEB have lots of money, but they be hesitating on spending much of it because why should they throw good money at what is inevitably a losing effort.
Bush is the quintessential crony capitalist!
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