The President’s son, Donald Trump Jr., unleashed fire and fury on Jeb Bush after he criticized any meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin alone.
Bush retweeted a column from the National Review’s Rich Lowry in which he believes a behind closed doors meeting with Trump could have led to all kinds of trouble for America, the President, and the rest of the world.
“I’m not opposed to an American president meeting with Putin, so long as the conditions are right and we are clear what we think we are going to accomplish,” Lowry wrote.
“That doesn’t seem to apply here, and it’s a really bad idea for Trump to meet alone with Putin and possibly make some sort of statement that Putin interprets or misinterprets as flashing green light for further adventurism.”
Fair enough. Bush shared the article, and Trump Jr. absolutely unloaded on him, citing his brother’s failures in the Iraq War and ripping Jeb for suddenly being a “bada**” now that he’s on the sideline after being beaten in the 2016 election.
Bush consistently attacked President Trump before the election when it came to the former’s desire to thaw relations with Putin and Russia.
“We need a president who will stand up to Putin, not coddle him,” he wrote in one message about then-candidate Trump.
“A true freedom-loving conservative wouldn’t be flattered by praise from a despot like Putin,” another reads.
Now, when it’s easy to pile on Trump, low-energy Jeb has finally decided to chime in again.
Trump’s roast of Jeb (please clap) is another in an ongoing spat between the two. (RELATED: Jeb! Bush Attacks Trump’s Kids, Immediately Regrets It).
During a speech at Yale University, Bush took a shot at the President saying he goes home every day to children “who actually love me.”
Trump Jr. would later cancel a fundraising event for Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush after Jeb repeatedly criticized the President for his immigration policies.
Who knows, maybe this feud will extend all the way to 2024 when the pair are squaring off in the Republican primaries?
It’s clear a lot of Jeb’s criticism of President Trump stems from their primary battles, in which then-candidate Trump was very critical of Bush. Jeb likely has not gotten over his primary loss to an outsider in Donald Trump and thus continues to criticize him every chance he gets.
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Jeb Bush, a low energy globalist "Republican" needs to just join the Democrat party since that is his ideological home. I'm really sick of these has-beens who have proven to be weak and ineffectual in dealing with Democrats and the media during elections. Jeb Bush is about as effective as Tim Pawlenty and Mitt Romney when it comes to countering the hits from any Democrat in the media or as an opponent.
I can remember before Pres. Trump announced he is running for president, going down the escalator, there was only a small handful of Republicans who seemed to know how to go on the offensive with the media and their deceptive games and fake outrage. And that was Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina (not sure how truly conservative she is) and Gov. Walker of Wisconsin. Republicans like Jeb Bush and John Kasich are from an era when Republicans just took the lies and misrepresenting their record, and not fight back. George W. Bush did not fight back and Democrats tarnished his record. To this day most people don't know it was the Democrat US Congress who ruined the economy by their policies and by 2008 we felt the full effect of that. George W. Bush said nothing and I have to wonder if he was on their side all along.
I am done with Republicans who were elected prior to 2002 with maybe a few exceptions. The days of playing nice with the media are over, and we tell them, the media, what the issues actually are. Jeb Bush is incapable going on offense, it's not in his nature.
@Joe "HIS OWN"
Which political party does Jeb Bush belong to these days?
They had high hopes. After Jeb, then we could have Neil Bush known for his involvement into the Savings and Loan Thievery that went on in the late 80's.
Which political party does Jeb Bush belong to these days?