Barbara Bush says Donald Trump caused her “angst” during the 2016 election and led her to question whether she was still a Republican in the months before she died.
Former First Lady Barbara Bush during the third inning of a major league baseball game in Houston in 2009.
Wednesday in USA Today of an upcoming biography, “The Matriarch.”In a February 2018 interview, Bush was asked if she still considered herself a Republican. She replied, “I’d probably say ‘no’ today.”Bush recalled drafting a funny letter to mail after the election congratulating Bill Clinton on becoming a presidential spouse. But Bush said when she woke up, she realized “to my horror that Trump had won.
A friend gave Bush a clock that counted down the time remaining in Trump’s first term that she kept at her bedside.
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