JEB! Bush RAILS on Trump in SPANISH, but pitches his book in English!

This is kinda weird – JEB! Bush is giving a decidedly angrier response to Trump in Spanish while toning it down for English audiences.

From the Daily Mail:

Former Republican presidential front-runner Jeb Bush sent two distinct signals in a single campaign stop Tuesday, using Spanish to bash current leading contender Donald Trump – but choosing English to deliver a more watered-down message.

Bush, the former Florida governor whose wife is Mexican-born and speaks fluid Spanish, launched an attack on Trump for the benefit of Latino reporters at a campaign stop in Miami.

For Bush, who has seen his standing in the GOP presidential field evaporate since Trump barged into the race in June, it was an unusually sharp swipe at the real estate tycoon.

‘He attacks me every day – he personalizes everything,’ Bush said in Spanish, Politico reported. ‘If you’re not totally in agreement with him, you’re an “idiot,” you’re “stupid,” you have “low energy,” blah, blah, blah. That’s what he does.’

Bush was pointedly more colorful and expansive in Spanish, at one point using a Spanish word for ‘outrages’ that translates into English as ‘barbarities.’ He also took more questions in Spanish than in English.

When reverting back to English, Bush was more measured, even as he acknowledged the tussle with Trump was getting personal.

‘It’s all personal for him, sure – mischaracterizations of my views, longstanding views. I’ve written a book about it,’ Bush said.

‘If he was interested in actually knowing my views, he could read the book. And he would know that I’m for border security and in a practical way that won’t cost hundreds of billions of dollars like what he’s proposed.’

I’m pretty sure we can all understand why he’d do that – el Jebby knows that Trump’s attacks on illegal immigrants are very popular in the conservative base, and he doesn’t want to shoo them away. But he also knows how UNpopular they are among Hispanics, among whom he has a lot more support than el Trumpo.

Trump’s yuge and cogent response is sure to please his fans – he yelled, “Speak English JEB!”


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