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White House strikes back at Bushes over weak legacy | TheHill

posted onNovember 5, 2017
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Article snippet: The White House fired back at former Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush on Saturday, attacking their legacies after both Bushes expressed their displeasure with President Trump in a new book. "The American people voted to elect an outsider who is capable of implementing real, positive, and needed change - instead of a lifelong politician beholden to special interests,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement to The Hill. “If they were interested in continuing decades of costly mistakes, another establishment politician more concerned with putting politics over people would have won.” In another statement reported by CNN, a White House source slammed the Bush legacy. “If one presidential candidate can disassemble a political party, it speaks volumes about how strong a legacy its past two presidents really had,” the White House said, according to CNN. The younger Bush expressed concern in the new book, “The Last Republicans” by Mark K. Updegrove, that he would be “the last Republican president." The book, which will be released Nov. 14, was previewed by The Hill and other media outlets late Friday and Saturday.  Both Bushes confirmed in the book they did not vote for Trump in the last election. The elder Bush confirmed he voted for Democratic presidential candidate called Trump a “blowhard.” “I don’t like him,” George H.W. Bush says in the book. “I don’t know much about him, but I know he’s a blowhard. And I’m not too exc... Link to the full article to read more

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