Jeb Bush Told A Donor Donald Trump Is ‘A Buffoon,’ A ‘Clown’ And An ‘A**hole’
Jeb Bush shared some unreserved comments for the GOP frontrunner with a donor.
Despite his seemingly endless series of “gaffes,” Jeb Bush may come across as reserved, controlled, and cautious, but the top-tier GOP presidential candidate shed that image during a conversation with a donor recently, as Politico just reported.
Bush was reportedly reeling after Trump’s attack on him via Bush’s wife, a Mexican-American to whom he has been married since 1974. The couple met when Jeb was 17 and Columba, 16.
That attack included this tweet, which Trump subsequently deleted:
Busted. Donald Trump deleted this tweet attacking Jeb Bush over his Mexican wife: pic.twitter.com/nD95099uGQ
— Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) July 6, 2015
“When Trump reposted a nasty tweet a couple of weeks after his contentious announcement speech— ‘Bush has to like Mexican illegals because of his wife’—the former Florida governor was forced to respond,” Politico reports today. “‘You can love your Mexican-American wife,’ he told one interviewer before telling another that Trump was ‘preying on people’s fears.'”
“Seriously, what’s this guy’s problem?†he asked one party donor he ran into recently, according to accounts provided by several sources close to Bush—and he went on to describe the publicity-seeking real estate developer now surging in public polls far ahead of Bush and all the 15 others in the Republican field as “a buffoon,†“clown†and “asshole.â€
The question is, will this make its way into tonight’s GOP debate?
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