{"id":182139,"date":"2015-12-09T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/12\/09\/of-course-jeb-bush-floats-a-conspiracy-theory-thats-all-he-has-left\/"},"modified":"2015-12-09T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T02:30:00","slug":"of-course-jeb-bush-floats-a-conspiracy-theory-thats-all-he-has-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/12\/09\/of-course-jeb-bush-floats-a-conspiracy-theory-thats-all-he-has-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Course, Jeb(!) Bush Floats a Conspiracy Theory.  That&#8217;s All He Has Left."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that in an attempt to regain relevance, Jeb(!) Bush has made the accusation that <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/jeb-hillary-trump-theory\">Trump&#8217;s campaign is a rat-f%$#ing orchestrated by Hillary Clinton<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush responded to a poll promoted by Donald Trump &#8212; which showed the billionaire holding on to 68 percent of his supporters if he ran as an independent &#8212; by floating the theory that the GOP frontrunner&#8217;s candidacy might be a false flag operation planted by Hillary Clinton.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">The tweet may have been <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tierney_Megan\/status\/674334418677420032\">in jest<\/a>, and otherwise Bush has been one of the more vocal critics <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/rand-paul-trump-muslim-ban\">among<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/cruz-disagrees-with-trump-s-plan-on-muslim-tourists\">2016 field<\/a> of Trump&#8217;s hardline stances that including banning Muslims from entering the U.S. (Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/donald-trump-signs-rnc-pledge\">who persuaded Trump to sign<\/a> a loyalty pledge to the GOP &#8212; said he <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/reince-priebus-donald-trump-muslim-ban\">didn&#8217;t agree<\/a> with the Muslim ban, but refused to criticize Trump further.)<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: blue;\">Maybe Donald negotiated a deal with his buddy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HillaryClinton\">@HillaryClinton<\/a>. Continuing this path will put her in the White House. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AlvByiSrMn\">https:\/\/t.co\/AlvByiSrMn<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014 Jeb Bush (@JebBush) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JebBush\/status\/674319725174890497\">December 8, 2015<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hillary and her Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> aren&#8217;t that smart.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, they are not tight lipped enough to pull it off.<\/p>\n<p>If Clinton had done this, someone in her campaign would have already gone to the press claiming that they were the genius behind this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that in an attempt to regain relevance, Jeb(!) Bush has made the accusation that Trump&#8217;s campaign is a rat-f%$#ing orchestrated by Hillary Clinton: Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush responded to a poll promoted by Donald Trump &#8212; which showed the billionaire holding on to 68 percent of his supporters if he ran as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1149,963,977,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conspiracy","category-donald-trump","category-presidential-campaign","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}