Jeb Bush Floats Donald Trump-Hillary Clinton Conspiracy Theory

Republican presidential candidates, businessman Donald Trump, left, and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush talk together before the start of the CNN Republican presidential debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library ... Republican presidential candidates, businessman Donald Trump, left, and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush talk together before the start of the CNN Republican presidential debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015, in Simi Valley, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson) MORE LESS
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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush responded to a poll promoted by Donald Trump — which showed the billionaire holding on to 68 percent of his supporters if he ran as an independent — by floating the theory that the GOP frontrunner’s candidacy might be a false flag operation planted by Hillary Clinton.

The tweet may have been in jest, and otherwise Bush has been one of the more vocal critics among the 2016 field of Trump’s hardline stances that including banning Muslims from entering the U.S. (Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus — who persuaded Trump to sign a loyalty pledge to the GOP — said he didn’t agree with the Muslim ban, but refused to criticize Trump further.)

But others on the right have speculated since early on in Trump’s White House run that the GOP frontrunner’s candidacy was a ploy by Democrats to rile Republicans.

Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-FL) said over the summer that there was a “small possibility” that Trump was indeed a Democratic plant.

Trump swiftly shot down the theory:

“Believe me — from Hillary’s standpoint, the one person she doesn’t want running against her is Donald Trump,” he said at the time.

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  1. Oh, good grief …

  2. I guess George W. really WAS the “Smarter Brother” after all.

  3. Avatar for mjv135 mjv135 says:

    Trump is not the problem Jeb, he’s the symptom. If someone said these crazy racist things - that you admit are crazy racist - in the Democratic party, he’d have been drummed out from day one, he absolutely would not be the frontrunner.

    You don’t have a bad candidate messing up your good party, you have the perfect candidate for a party that you can’t seem to understand has become rotten to the core.

  4. And you John Ellis Bush are losing to Trump (even if your CT were true). So what does that tell you about the viability of your candidacy and the state of your party’s “base”…?

  5. Jesus–how fucking desperate can you get? And speaking of Jesus, wasn’t it Jeb who just a few days ago said we should only allow Christian refugees come here, cause, "you can prove you’re a Christian.”

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