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You couldn’t find two more solid and stolid figures of the Republican establishment than Jeb Bush and William Barr. Both have also been harsh critics of Donald Trump, who has given it right back in spades. And so it was striking that both have come out strongly against the indictment of Trump, thereby demonstrating a good deal more integrity than the Democrats who have been cheering on Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and hailing the advent of America as a banana republic.
The bad blood between Jeb! and Trump goes back to the 2016 presidential campaign, and particularly to a Feb. 2016 debate during which Trump said, “Obviously the war in Iraq was a big fat mistake, all right? George Bush made a mistake, we can make mistakes. But that one was a beauty.” He was actually making a point not about George, but about his brother: “It took Jeb Bush — if you remember at the beginning of his announcement when he announced for president, it took him five days — ‘It was a mistake, it wasn’t a mistake,’ — it took him five days before his people told him what to say. We should have never been in Iraq, we have destabilized the Middle East. They lied. They said there were weapons of mass destruction — there were none. And they knew there were none.” All this was true, but restating it and making it the responsibility of Jeb Bush has led to undying enmity between Trump and the Bush family and their allies.
At that time, Bush criticized Trump for attacking him through his family, saying, “He’s had the gall to go after my mother. My mom is the strongest woman I know.” To that, Trump responded with a haymaker: “She should be running.” No member of the Bush family has had a remotely kind word to say about Trump ever since. Jeb’s brother led the way; after maintaining eight years of dignified silence during the Obama years, George W. Bush suddenly became a vocal critic of the Trump administration, with which he was, or at least should have been, much more closely aligned ideologically.
In light of all that, it was shocking indeed when Jeb Bush tweeted on Saturday: “Bragg’s predecessor didn’t take up the case. The Justice Department didn’t take up the case. Bragg first said he would not take up the case. This is very political, not a matter of justice. In this case, let the jury be the voters.” Jeb Bush is to be commended for speaking out against injustice, even when that injustice is directed against a political enemy. Such integrity is in short supply these days.
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࿗Infidel࿘ says
George P Bush had an opportunity to be useful by running against any Texas establishment guy, such as John Cornyn, but instead, he chose to run against a solid conservative in Ken Paxton. And ended up losing!
As for Trump, I doubt that any Republican would have any credibility left if they endorsed this indictment. Only ones I can see doing that are Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger and Joe Scarborough. Although given that their – Jeb’s and Barr’s – careers are practically over, I do think it’s praiseworthy that they still condemned this indictment
Linde B. says
The Bush family seems to be political hypocrites. I was told that Prescott Bush (George W. Bush’s paternal grandfather)
was Adolf Hitler’s banker but yet ran for,
and won the US Senate seat from CT for
a few terms. How does that happen?
Then George H. W. Bush had several private deals with some oil magnates from the Middle East before becoming president and was the “globalist” arm of the Reagan administration as Reagan’s VP. Lastly, in
George W. Bush’s presidency the American
people were told. “We are going into Iraq to
bring democracy to the Middle East.” At that
time, most Americans did not know that
Sharia Law – not democracy – was the
basis of Islam, and all of the Middle East
was Islamic. Hence, the Middle East shunned democracy. But the mainstream
media did not want to point out that vital
fact and neither did most American politicians, if they even knew. So “We The
People” get duped by our own elected officials so they can enrich themselves.
This has to stop.
I was a teenager during the Vietnam war. I recall Americans were told that the US went into Vietnam to fight communism. But I
believe the US went to Vietnam to try out
the weapons of the Military Industrial Complex. This is a group of elites with money who want to make much more money off the government (probably any government) by selling them weapons.
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Rarely says
Barr’s comments come with the caveat “…the news reports, IF THEY ARE ACCURATE…’.
i.e. it would be wise to wait for the indictment before getting one’s xxx in a knot.
There apparently are 30+ charges in the indictment so there are potentially some major surprises coming.
Of course if the porn star shut-up money issue is basically all there is it’s a big joke and will almost assuredly back fire on the prosecution. I would be shocked to find that the prosecutor is doing his best to impersonate a first year law student. That is why I feel that there must be more to it. Tomorrow will tell.
Westman says
Our allies have no doubt, at this point, that the US has degenerated into the kind of regime it formerly liked to change. This isn’t about Trump anymore, this is an opening door for never-ending use of the justice system as a political weapon.
Imagine the replies to future US criticisms toward dictatorial governments, “You have political prisoners and persecute your political opponents, too, ehh? You don’t have a moral leg to stand on!” Oh, wait! The Chinese have already said this directly to the faces of a US delegation.
Apparently, since the criticism stuck, the Biden admin is going to live up to it. With this kind of, “The ends justify the means”, mentality in Washington, we should be preparing for Biden’s handlers blundering into WW3 because Ukraine has lost the core of its army in Bakhmut and only the US can save it.
James Lincoln says
Westman says,
“Our allies have no doubt, at this point, that the US has degenerated into the kind of regime it formerly liked to change.”
Correct.
Due to the Biden regime, the United States has lost the high moral ground.