Former President George W. Bush went out of his way to sabotage Donald Trump during the 2016 and 2020 elections.
Bush was a founding member of the Never Trump club.
But now George W. Bush admitted Trump was right with this stunning public confession.
Donald Trump upended the Bush-era consensus of trade, immigration and foreign policy.
For decades the Bush family called the shots in the GOP and imposed the family’s globalist agenda of shipping American jobs overseas through trade deals with Communist China and Mexico, opening the borders to a flood of illegal aliens and then supporting amnesty as well as support for endless foreign wars such as the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Donald Trump’s America First agenda of standing up to Communist China, ending foreign wars and building a wall caught fire with the GOP base and led to Trump winning the 2016 election.
And on one of those points, George W. Bush accidentally conceded that Donald Trump was right.
When Bush was delivering a speech Bush meant to condemn Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
But in one of the all-time Freudian slips Bush instead said there was a brutal and illegal invasion of Iraq.
'The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean of Ukraine.” The mother of all gaffes, via @michaeldamianw pic.twitter.com/nnnB4W2JHm
— Nick Gillespie (@nickgillespie) May 19, 2022
Bush quickly corrected himself and joked that he meant to say Ukraine adding that he was nearly 75 so he had a senior moment.
But Bush joking about a war where 4,500 American soldiers died and 32,000 suffered injuries because Bush fell for bad intelligence about Saddam Hussein and Weapons of Mass Destruction did not sit well with many Americans.
Donald Trump Jr. slammed Bush for keeping his reservations about the Iraq War to himself for nearly 20 years.
“I wish he would have been this honest and critical of himself 20 years, countless lives, and trillions of dollars ago,” Trump Jr. wrote on Twitter.
Bush’s remarks call back to one of the signature moments of the 2016 campaign.
During a debate in the crucial state of South Carolina, Trump took on Jeb Bush about George Bush’s legacy in Iraq.
Trump blasted the Iraq War as a multi-trillion-dollar mistake that cost thousands of lives that weakened America’s position in the Middle East.
“Obviously, the war in Iraq was a big, fat mistake,” Trump began. “The war in Iraq, we spent $2 trillion, thousands of lives. We don’t even have it. Iran is taking over Iraq, with the second-largest oil reserves in the world. Obviously, it was a mistake.
“George Bush made a mistake. We can make mistakes. But that one was a beauty. We should have never been in Iraq. We have destabilized the Middle East,” Trump concluded.
Commentators thought Trump committed a massive gaffe attacking Bush and the Iraq War in a state like South Carolina where the military is an important institution.
But Republican voters agreed with Trump and Trump won the primary by double digits and never looked back on his way to the GOP nomination and then the White House.
It also looks like more than six years later George W. Bush let it slip that deep down he knew Donald Trump was right.
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