Bannon Takes Fierce Aim At George W. Bush: “He Embarrassed Himself”

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Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon served up a searing attack Friday night on former president George W. Bush, saying Bush “didn’t understand anything he was talking about” in a speech the day before that was widely seen as a rebuke of Donald Trump’s presidency.

“He embarrassed himself,” Bannon said in a dinnertime address at the convention banquet of the California Republican Party. “The speechwriter wrote a highfalutin speech. It’s clear he didn’t understand anything he was talking about. . . . He has no earthly idea whether he’s coming or going, just like it was when he was president of the United States.”

Bannon – who has declared war on the Republican establishment since leaving the White House – went on to apologize to any “Bush folks” in the audience before asserting that “there has not been a more destructive presidency than George Bush’s.”

Conservatives have been critical of Bush’s presidency for spending increases and an expansion of foreign entanglements.

Bannon’s broadside was prompted by a rare political speech that Bush delivered Thursday in which he warned of threats to U.S. democracy and a decay of civic engagement.

At a New York forum sponsored by the Bush presidential center, Bush offered a blunt assessment of a political system corrupted by “conspiracy theories and outright fabrication” in which nationalism has been “distorted into nativism.”

“We’ve seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty,” Bush said during a 16-minute address at “The Spirit of Liberty” event. “Bullying and prejudice in our public life sets a national tone and provides permission for cruelty and bigotry. The only way to pass along civic values is to first live up to them.”

At a White House briefing Friday, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, “Our understanding is that those comments were not directed towards the president.”

(c) 2017, The Washington Post · John Wagner

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8 COMMENTS

  1. The left wing media that declared war on Trump is the same one that destroyed Bush. If all the Trumpers will throw Bush under the bus, why would anyone stand up to defend Trump?

  2. Bush was and is a first class dummy. At least we haven’t heard from Jeb. There is something weird about the Bush family. They all seem dimwitted.

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