{"id":74765,"date":"2017-06-10T15:15:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T19:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=74765"},"modified":"2017-06-10T15:15:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T19:15:03","slug":"democrats-are-in-serious-trouble-even-rino-jeb-bush-backs-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=74765","title":{"rendered":"Democrats are in serious trouble, Even RINO Jeb Bush backs Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Jeb Bush backs president, but says \u2018who cares what I think?\u2019<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"authors\">Chris Villani<br \/>\nBoston Herald<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_74766\" style=\"width: 319px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/060817bush003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-74766\" class=\"wp-image-74766\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/060817bush003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"309\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/060817bush003.jpg 609w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/060817bush003-228x300.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-74766\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo courtesy of Boston College)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Former Florida governor and GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush said he doesn\u2019t think President Trump obstructed justice when he fired former FBI director James B. Comey.<\/p>\n<p>When Bush, who spoke yesterday to a standing-room-only crowd at Boston College\u2019s 12th annual Carroll School of Management Finance Conference, was asked whether Trump obstructed justice, he replied, \u201cNo, I don\u2019t, but who cares what I think?\u201d<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 1.8em;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<aside id=\"related-content\">\n<div class=\"related-articles container three-column\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Bush went on to lament the lack of compromise and the constant quarreling that has engulfed Washington.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be great to get back to the business of governing and less about the swirling controversies,\u201d Bush said. \u201cI just think the president needs to focus on doing his job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are great opportunities for him to hire people,\u201d Bush continued. \u201cHe\u2019s done pretty well there. The judicial appointments have been good, he\u2019s got a great foreign policy team, he should be president and stop creating all the controversies \u2014 let that process takes its place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And though he admitted he\u2019s not a \u201cbig fan\u201d of Trump, he said he hoped the president would make good on a major campaign promise to rid D.C. of Beltway insiders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2009\u2018Drain the swamp\u2019 was a classic line, it resonated with me,\u201d Bush said. \u201cI didn\u2019t vote for the guy, I\u2019m not a big fan and everybody knows that, but I was hopeful that he would drain the swamp and the swamp-draining would include lobbying reform &#8230; which could be done by executive order if the president really wanted it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/news\/us_politics\/2017\/06\/jeb_bush_backs_president_but_says_who_cares_what_i_think\">http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/news\/us_politics\/2017\/06\/jeb_bush_backs_president_but_says_who_cares_what_i_think<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeb Bush backs president, but says \u2018who cares what I think?\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}