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canetoad

(20,769 posts) Wed Mar 27, 2019, 03:05 PM Mar 2019

Barbara Bush blamed Donald Trump for her heart attack

Source: The Age

Former first lady Barbara Bush says Donald Trump caused her "angst" during the 2016 election and led her to question whether she was still a Republican in the months before she died.

Bush's thoughts about Trump were revealed in excerpts published on Wednesday in USA Today of an upcoming biography, The Matriarch.

In a February 2018 interview, Bush, wife of 41st president George H.W. Bush, was asked if she still considered herself a Republican. She replied, "I'd probably say 'no' today."

She died in April at age 92.

Read more: https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/barbara-bush-blamed-donald-trump-for-her-heart-attack-20190328-p518b6.html

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Barbara Bush blamed Donald Trump for her heart attack (Original Post) canetoad Mar 2019 OP

Interesting, because I blame the Bush theft of the 2000 election for anger and stress LisaM Mar 2019 #1

But this isn't working out very nicely for her... thegoose Mar 2019 #2

Snort! Right? LisaM Mar 2019 #4

I feel the same Raine Mar 2019 #6

Sure, when they get close to death they start to repent. Ligyron Mar 2019 #3

What drove her to that death-bed epiphany was the 2016 campaign Fritz Walter Mar 2019 #5

LisaM

(29,634 posts)

1. Interesting, because I blame the Bush theft of the 2000 election for anger and stress

Reply to canetoad (Original post)

Wed Mar 27, 2019, 03:52 PM

Mar 2019

I've felt ever since then. It honestly made me a changed person, far more angry, and much more prone to stress-related behaviors, and some mild depression.

thegoose

(3,115 posts)

2. But this isn't working out very nicely for her...

Reply to LisaM (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 27, 2019, 03:55 PM

Mar 2019

LisaM

(29,634 posts)

4. Snort! Right?

Reply to thegoose (Reply #2)

Wed Mar 27, 2019, 04:13 PM

Mar 2019

The Bush family has always baffled me because I don't think they are racist or homophobic or anti-abortion, yet they seem willing to use those issues to divide voters and retain power.

Raine

(31,179 posts)

6. I feel the same

Reply to LisaM (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 27, 2019, 07:28 PM

Mar 2019

what happened in 2000 is something I will never ever get over or forget!

Ligyron

(8,006 posts)

3. Sure, when they get close to death they start to repent.

Reply to canetoad (Original post)

Wed Mar 27, 2019, 04:05 PM

Mar 2019

They usually believe in some type of afterlife, so...

Fritz Walter

(4,370 posts)

5. What drove her to that death-bed epiphany was the 2016 campaign

Reply to canetoad (Original post)

Wed Mar 27, 2019, 04:51 PM

Mar 2019

Sure, she considered little donnie to be the epitome of greed decades earlier, but when she saw how her precious Jeb — the smart and (relatively) sober brother — was beaten up on the campaign trail, that’s what eventually drove her to denounce what RepubliCONism had become, thanks in no small part to her husband and other son.

Let her spirit dwell on that as she spends the next few eons in Purgatory.

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