George W. Bush Launches Barely Veiled Rebuke of Trump’s Presidency
- Blasts coarsening of politics ‘degraded by casual cruelty’
- Warns against turning inward as he defends trade, immigration
George W. Bush Launches Veiled Rebuke of Trump
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Former President George W. Bush criticized the coarsening of U.S. politics under Donald Trump and said that Russia was trying to turn Americans against one another, in a speech that amounted to a barely veiled and remarkable rebuke of the current president.
Bush didn’t mention Trump by name at Bush Institute’s National Forum on Freedom, Free Markets and Security in New York. He didn’t need to.