George W Bush sharply condemned bigotry, conspiracy theories and lies in American politics on Thursday, in what seemed to be a coded attack on the presidency of Donald Trump. Half-baked, spurious nationalism is unpatriotic | John McCain Read more“Bigotry seems emboldened,” said Bush, who has seen controversy over his 2001-09 presidency among liberals and abroad eclipsed by the outrage surrounding Trump. While campaigning for his brother Jeb in the 2016 Republican primary, the former president took similarly veiled swipes at Trump. He and his father, the former president George HW Bush, skipped the Republican national convention where Trump was formally nominated last July, and declined to vote for Trump in the November election. Trump has been the rare sitting president to draw routine criticism, even if subtle, from those who sat in the Oval Office before him.

Source: The Guardian October 19, 2017 18:16 UTC