Donald Trump attacks Bush legacy on foreign policy during ferocious Republican debate in South Carolina
Jeb Bush countered that Trump gets his foreign policy from “the shows”, while his brother had formulated policies to protect Americans.
Donald Trump and Jeb Bush took the gloves off on Saturday in the Republican presidential debate, with the billionaire front runner unleashing a tirade of intense and often personal attacks one week before the South Carolina primary.
Trump, seeking to blunt Bush in a state where his dynastic family remains popular, went after the former Florida governor on foreign policy and immigration, and lambasted Jeb’s brother president George W. Bush’s war in Iraq as “a big fat mistake”.
While Donald Trump was building a reality TV show, my brother was building a security apparatus to keep us safe
Trump was relentless in badgering Bush, even saying Jeb’s mother should have been the Bush candidate instead.
“Jeb is so wrong,” Trump said, to loud boos from the audience, people whom Trump dismissed as lobbyists and establishment Republicans.
Bush parried back, hitting Trump’s suggestion he could work with Russia to combat the Islamic State jihadist group in Syria and Iraq.
“You can’t fight two wars at one time,” Trump said, adding that Bush experts have been deeply misguided about Middle East policy.
Bush countered that Trump gets his foreign policy from “the shows”, while Bush’s brother was formulating policy to protect Americans.