Trump Retweets Ugly Remark About Jeb Bush's Mexican Wife

[RandySF]

With a retweet, immigration hardliner Donald Trump let his followers know on the Fourth of July that fellow Republican presidential contender Jeb Bush "has to like Mexican illegals because of his wife."

The real estate mogul shared the tweet from one of his followers, a habit that's gotten him in trouble before. It appeared to be live on Twitter for a full day before it was deleted, according to Hollywood news site TheWrap.

The timing of the retweet was notable in that the real estate mogul admitted earlier Saturday that he was taken aback by the "severe" reaction from the business community to his comments on Mexican immigrants, whom he'd labelled "rapists" in his presidential announcement speech.

"They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime. They're rapists," Trump said during that speech, referring to immigrants crossing the border from Mexico. "And some, I assume, are good people."


http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/donald-trump-jeb-bush-wife

[gratuitous]

1. Seems that T Rump might have some other problems, too

Illegal immigrant workers, anyone?

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/for-some-workers-at-trump%E2%80%99s-dc-hotel-route-to-us-wasn%E2%80%99t-always-legal/ar-AAcEwpt

Naturally, T Rump's devoted followers (and if that's you, and you're not getting paid by the multi-billionaire mogul, you are a chump) have already taken to the story to complain about the liberal media.

[davidpdx]

2. How low can he go?

Has he made nasty remarks about AA's yet? I would be surprised if he hasn't.

[JCMach1]

4. He is the frontrunner, because the vast majority of Republicans believe exactly that

[Initech]

3. Wow, now I am convinced that not even The Onion....

Could make up a candidate as batshit crazy as Trump is. Really even the most hardcore satirist is going "this guy is fucking bonkers"!

[nilesobek]

5. Its almost like Trump is acting as a mole for the Democratic Party.

[cyberswede]

6. I wonder if this is a way to highlight Jeb!'s wife's ethnic background to get some sympathy support

If Trump's role is to make Jeb! look reasonable, maybe this is a way to get people to A) learn that Jeb! has a Latina wife, and B) make Jeb! look like a sympathetic figure.

It's not likely that Jeb! would say "hey, my wife is Mexican, so Latinos should vote for me," and now he doesn't have to.