During a heated exchange about immigration during the Saturday night Republican presidential debate, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said that Donald Trump is “weak” because he disparages women, Hispanics, and the disabled.
Trump first accused Bush of being weak on immigration.
“The weakest person on this stage by far on illegal immigration is Jeb Bush. They come ‘out of an act of love,'” he said during the debate, referencing Bush’s comment in 2014. “Whether you like it or not, he is so weak on illegal immigration, it’s laughable, and everybody knows it.”
Bush fired back.
“This is the standard operating procedure, to disparage me. That’s fine, I don’t really care…” Bush began in response to Trump.
Trump then jumped in to dig Bush about his campaign’s spending, telling the him, “Spend a little more money on the commercials.”
Bush then continued, and called Trump’s disparaging comments “weak.”
“If you want to talk about weakness, you want to talk about weakness, it’s weak to disparage women. It’s weak to disparage Hispanics. It’s weak to denigrate the disabled. And it’s really weak to call John McCain a loser because he was a POW. That’s outrageous. He’s an American hero,” Bush said, referencing Trump’s comment that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was only a “war hero because he was captured.”
As Bush spoke, Trump said he does not disparage women and never called McCain a “loser.” He then mentioned that he’s been criticized for his profane language.
“Two days ago, he said he would take his pants off and moon everybody, and that’s fine, nobody reports that,” Trump said, referencing a recent Bush interview with the Boston Globe in which the former governor lamented that he could “moon the whole crowd” and the press “would never notice.”
“And then he tells me, oh my language was a little bit rough,” Trump continued. “Give me a break.”
Watch the exchange:
Since this is South Carolina, I think a Southern saying is in order. Bless their little hearts.
Only saw the last half or so of this school yard squabble. It is hard to believe any of theses lightweights are even in consideration and it is even more amazing that the “journalists” do not call them on their absolute poor behavior with even poorer remembering of facts
With Christie out of the way and Rubio effectively neutered, I guess Jeb feels it’s time to go after Trump. I’m not watching the debate, but it sounds like he’s holding his own better than in the past.
I was born when Harry Truman was president so I’ve seen a few presidents come and go in my lifetime. But I never thought I’d see the day that America would produce such garbage as the current crop of GOP candidates. Whatever happened to proper decorum and statesmanship? Perhaps I’m just getting old and cynical, but is this really the best that America can do? And if it is, may God help us.