Team Trump complains about H.W. Bush’s ‘slap in the face’

[DonViejo]

09/21/16 08:00 AM—UPDATED 09/21/16 08:33 AM
By Steve Benen

There were some questions yesterday about whether or not former President George H.W. Bush really said he intends to vote for Hillary Clinton, but there are ample reasons to believe he did. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the original source of the news, confirmed the account to NBC News late yesterday.

What’s more, by some accounts, Bush made his election plans clear to “a room of roughly 40 people,” and the former president and his aides have made little effort to dispute the reports. As of last night, Donald Trump’s campaign certainly gave every indication that it believes the story to be true – and went after H.W. Bush accordingly.

“If it is true that some of the Bushes are going to be supporting Hillary Clinton, then I think it really offers vindication for a lot of the tea party goers who felt like Republicans were starting to govern as Democrats,” Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson said on Fox News’s “The Kelly File.”

“The establishment is going to stick with the establishment,” she continued.

Pierson remarked on a situation where “you have Republicans in a record number turn out for Donald Trump and you have former leaders of the party just essentially slap them in the face.”

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http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/team-trump-complains-about-hw-bushs-slap-the-face?cid=sm_fb_maddow

[grossproffit]

1. I applaud all Republicans putting country before party.

[bulloney]

2. After Trump regularly humiliated Jeb while he was running during the primaries,

Did he really expect the Bush family to throw their support behind him?

You can add sociopath to the list of things mentally wrong with old orangutan breath.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. BFEE have loooooooong memories.

George H.W. is the tip of the iceberg.

Nixon himself opined that Barbara Bush really knew how to hate and he said that she (Barbara Bush) was the person who scared him the most in all his years in Washington.

http://saintperle.blogspot.com/2005/09/and-richard-nixon-said-that-she.html

[Angry Dragon]

4. perhaps Trump needs a good slap in the face

[Wednesdays]

5. I'm playing "Hearts and Flowers"

on the world's tiniest violin.