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Via Talking Points Memo:
Former Florida governor and Republican presidential primary candidate Jeb Bush criticized President Donald Trump for “saying things that aren’t true that are a distraction to the task at hand.”
Bush made the criticism during an interview that aired Sunday with WFOR’s Jim DeFede.
“He hasn’t shifted to being President in the way that people are used to, and I think that’s the problem,” Bush said, adding later: “He’s a distraction in and of himself.”
Bush said he admired many of Trump’s picks for top posts in his administration, like Defense Secretary James Mattis, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
All of those picks have connections to the Bush family. DeVos, for example, served on the board of Bush’s Foundation for Excellence in Education and is a similarly fervent evangelist of charter schools.
But, Bush said, Trump’s habit of making unsubstantiated claims – including that former President Barack Obama had ordered the wiretapping of Trump Tower – had distracted from achieving policy priorities, like replacing Obamacare with Republicans’ own health bill or overhauling the tax code.