Oct. 19 2017 3:10 P
George W. Bush's "Takedown" of Trump May Be the Most Too-Little Too-Late Thing That Has Ever Happened
By Ben Mathis-Lilley
George W. Bush gave a speech at the George W. Bush Institute in New York on Thursday. First of all, congrats to the George W. Bush Institute on booking George W. Bush for this event—one imagines he must have been their first choice! Second, the speech has been covered as a "takedown" of Donald Trump. But, sadly, it was not.
Bush did make some implicit references to the current president, who he did not mention by name:
• "Our politics seems more vulnerable to conspiracy theories and outright fabrication."
• "Too often we judge other groups by their worst examples while judging ourselves by our best intentions, forgetting the image of God we should see in each other. We've seen nationalism distorted into nativism, forgotten the dynamism immigration has always brought to America."
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"According to intelligence services, the Russian government has made a project of turning Americans against each other ... foreign aggressions including cyberattacks, disinformation and financial influence should never be downplayed or tolerated."
• "People of every race, religion and ethnicity can be fully and equally American ... bigotry or white supremacy in any form is blasphemy against the American creed."
• "Bullying and prejudice in our public life sets a national tone."
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