Barbara Bush Claimed “Symbol Of Greed” Donald Trump Caused Her Heart Attack

According to a new biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush, the matriarch of the Bush Clan said that when she first met Donald Trump in the 1980’s she viewed him as the “symbol of greed” in the United States. She also claimed that the stress he put on her family during the 2016 presidential election helped cause her heart attack. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins examines these claims to see if maybe there’s something else that could have been troubling her.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

So there's a new biography coming out of Barbara Bush. The book is titled the Matriarch Barbara Bush and the making of an American dynasty by author Susan Page. Now, Susan Page spent a lot of time talking with Barbara Bush. A lot of this book is based on the interviews that she had with the former first lady. And in the book, Barbara Bush, who passed away last year said that when she first met Donald Trump and the 1980s she thought that he personally was a real symbol of greed all the way back in the 1980s. You know, at the time, Donald Trump wasn't necessarily the big household name that he was even before he ran for president. But even back then she knew it. She could see it as good, most people who had actually met or seen the man. But then things take a weird, weird little turn here. You see, Barbara Bush had a cardiac event, a heart attack, something of that nature. In June of 2016, uh, you know, the summer right before the 2016 presidential election. And during an interview, the author says that Barbara Bush kind of implied that Trump, you know, the stress that he put on her family, the attacks that he had on Jeb Bush, her son that helped, you know, create the anxiety and the stress that led to her cardiac event.

I don't know how I feel about that, you know, look, I hate Trump. He bugs the hell out of me. He's corrupt as hell. He's downright evil. And he is absolutely one of the worst presidents we've had in my lifetime. But there were two other presidents during my lifetime that were also pretty crappy and they happen to be Barbara Bushes son and her husband. And I think that for her, you know, at a time when, yeah, it's great. It's popular. It's cool to dog on Trump and blame him for everything. But, and I don't want to attack a, a former first lady who's passed away. However, don't sit there and just try to jump on the Anti Trump bandwagon. Okay. Your son started in illegal war, your son's decisions resulted in the deaths of over a hundred thousand civilians in Iraq. Thousands of US soldiers dead based on an illegal war. And yeah, Trump is awful, but he hasn't even done that yet. He's done his own evil bad things. But your son was just as bad and more people died under your son and technically your husband too with the first Gulf War. So yeah, you want to throw stones and say that this guy is a horrible piece of crap. I'm all for it.

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