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  1. Trump Questions Why Lehman Brothers Paid Jeb Bush '$1.3 Million A Year For A No-Show Job'

    Aug 27, 2015 | The Week

    Donald Trump's latest comments earned him a rebuke from a Jeb Bush spokesman for "trafficking in false conspiracy theories" about the former investment bank Lehman Brothers, where Bush worked for a stint after leaving the governor's office in Florida in 2007. Amid Trump's 33 attacks against the Bush family in a 35-minute interview...
  2. Inside The Trump-Bush Melodrama: Decades Of Tension And Discomfort

    Aug 27, 2015 | The Washington Post

    By Philip Rucker and Robert Costa

    ...Trump was especially accusatory when he talked about Jeb Bush’s work in investment banking. After leaving the governor’s office in 2007, Bush was an adviser to Lehman Brothers and, later, Barclays, making between $1.3 million and $2 million a year. Trump called Bush’s role at Lehman a “no-show job” and suggested it was a reward for helping ...

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  1. Trump Questions Why Lehman Brothers Paid Jeb Bush '$1.3 Million A Year For A No-Show Job'

    Aug 27, 2015 | The Week

    Donald Trump's latest comments earned him a rebuke from a Jeb Bush spokesman for "trafficking in false conspiracy theories" about the former investment bank Lehman Brothers, where Bush worked for a stint after leaving the governor's office in Florida in 2007. Amid Trump's 33 attacks against the Bush family in a 35-minute interview with The Washington Post, he managed numerous times to drop his suspicions that Bush's high salary from Lehman was a "reward for helping direct Florida state funds to the firm, whose collapse in 2008 helped kick off the Great Recession," The Post reports.

    "That’s a Hillary Clinton kind of situation," Trump said. "This is huge. Let me ask you: Why would you pay a man $1.3 million a year for a no-show job at Lehman Brothers — which, when it failed, almost took the world with it?" Trump then went on to offer Lehman's crash as evidence that Bush lacks business savvy. When asked whether he thought Bush could "steer the economy," Trump responded: "Steer it? He can't steer himself. Look what he did with Lehman." Trump surmised that the state of Florida "lost a lot of money after Lehman went bad, thanks to Jeb Bush."...

    For full story: http://theweek.com/speedreads/574174/trump-questions-why-lehman-brothers-paid-jeb-bush-13-million-year-noshow-job

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  2. Inside The Trump-Bush Melodrama: Decades Of Tension And Discomfort

    Aug 27, 2015 | The Washington Post

    By Philip Rucker and Robert Costa

    Donald Trump spent a day in January 2014 hobnobbing with politicians at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla. The billionaire mogul touted legalizing gambling with state Rep. Steve Crisafulli, speaker of the Florida House, and two other wired Florida Republicans, plugging his properties as potential sites for casinos.

    ...And back to Jeb: “He’s not up to snuff. . . . Jeb is never going to bring us to the promised land. He can’t.”

    Trump was especially accusatory when he talked about Jeb Bush’s work in investment banking. After leaving the governor’s office in 2007, Bush was an adviser to Lehman Brothers and, later, Barclays, making between $1.3 million and $2 million a year. Trump called Bush’s role at Lehman a “no-show job” and suggested it was a reward for helping direct Florida state funds to the firm, whose collapse in 2008 helped kick off the Great Recession.

    “That’s a Hillary Clinton kind of situation,” Trump said, referring to the Democratic front-
    runner. “This is huge. Let me ask you: Why would you pay a man $1.3 million a year for a no-show job at Lehman Brothers — which, when it failed, almost took the world with it?”

    Asked whether he thought Bush was ready to steer the nation’s economy, Trump said, “Steer it? He can’t steer himself.” ‘Liberal cocktail parties’

    Tim Miller, a Bush spokesman, said Trump “is trafficking in false conspiracy theories” about Lehman.

    Responding to Trump’s broader criticisms, Miller highlighted the developer’s past ties to Democrats and liberal causes....

    For full story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-the-trump-bush-melodrama-decades-of-tension-and-discomfort/2015/08/27/419b0686-4be6-11e5-902f-39e9219e574b_story.html

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