Donald Trump slams Jeb Bush — from the left: The Donald blasts Bush’s Wall Street ties

The billionaire mogul hits the scion of America's most famous Republican dynasty

SOPHIA TESFAYE

Donald Trump, who claims to be worth $10 billion, is attempting to portray rival Jeb Bush as the preferred candidate of Wall Street, offering a critique of the former Florida governor from the left.

“Jeb is never going to bring us to the promised land. He can’t,” Trump told the Washington Post’s Robert Costa and Phillip Rucker in a new interview described as containing 33 jabs at the Bush political dynasty in 35 minutes, or “about one put-down per minute.”

“He’s not up to snuff,” Trump determined, citing Bush’s work after leaving the governor’s mansion in Tallahassee as disqualifying: (emphasis added)

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, earning 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?”

According to the Wall Street Journal, Bush was never an official employee of Lehman, “but was paid to attend meetings, dinners and conferences where he spoke to clients and bank executives.”

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