Trump: Jeb Bush ‘Not A Man Of Honor’ For Breaking Pledge
Jeb Bush, former Republican presidential hopeful, has been out of the primary race for months, but that has not stopped presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump from attacking him. Trump took Bush to task for not supporting his candidacy.
“Jeb Bush dishonored his pledge, I mean he dishonored his pledge,” Trump told “The Mike Gallagher Show,” reports Buzzfeed. “He signed a pledge, and, if you remember, they all wanted me to sign it, so I signed it. But that pledge is a guarantee, there’s no outs. It doesn’t say, ‘subject to me liking Donald Trump or anything.’”
Earlier in May, Jeb’s brother and former president, George W. Bush, signaled that he would not be attending the Republican convention once it was clear that Donald Trump was the party’s nominee.
“He does not intend to attend,” Freddy Ford, the former president’s personal aid, wrote in a statement, reports Politico.
George H. W. Bush does not plan to attend, either.
“At age 91, President Bush is retired from politics,” the senior Bush’s spokesman stated. “He naturally did a few things to help Jeb, but those were the ‘exceptions that proved the rule.’”
But even with the three most politically prominent Bush family members out of the way, Trump continued to rally against Jeb.
“You know, Jeb Bush spent $12 million in negative ads on me and then after he spent it I started hitting him very hard,” Trump said, reports Buzzfeed. “And then they said Trump was mean, but I wasn’t mean.”
“I had a right to do what I did,” Trump continued. “And it was tough and he left, and then he said he’s not gonna endorse me? I said, ‘Well, then you violated your pledge.’ And I think he said […] he doesn’t care. Well, that’s not a man of honor, when you violate your pledge.”
Kristy Campbell, a spokeswoman for Jeb, responded to Trump’s claims.
“Governor Bush never envisioned that the Republican Party would elect a non-conservative as its nominee,” she began. “He is staying true to his conservative principles and will not vote for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.”