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I had never heard of Billy Bush before yesterday. And Billy, the other main voice on the bus grope tape, has friends in high places. In 2005, when the tape was made, his first cousin, George W, was President of the United State. W’s brother, Jeb!, was the Governor of Florida. Their father, George H. W. Bush, Billy’s uncle, was of course a former president, former head of the CIA, former Chair of the RNC, and former ambassador to China.
This is no conspiracy theory, I offer no proof of anything. But what are the odds that of all the D-list gossip-show celebrities in LA, that the one capturing Trump on a hot mic would be from the Bush dynasty? Does anyone else find it curious?
Trump had expressed interest in running for President as early as 1987-88, and did in fact run half-heartedly on the Reform Party ticket in 2000. In 2005 his ambition was in full flower. He was starring in The Apprentice, and the Clintons had attended his recent (third) wedding. He must have known that Billy Bush was connected.
As explained in the astonishing story by SwedishJewfish, Trump had tried for years to be a player. Hanging out with modeling impresario (and predator) John Casablancas brought him into contact with the fashion, glamour, and perhaps trafficking businesses (stay tuned for Part 2 of SJF’s story). Now as a TV personality, playing a version of himself in his own series and on soap opera, as a frequent guest on Howard Stern, Letterman, and elsewhere, why not make a move to ingratiate himself with Billy, let down his hair, so to speak, reveal his proclivity for manly domineering sexual assault in the guise of a casual chat? Just a couple of untouchable guys, right?
Who are the other mugs getting off the bus?
I find it curious that the tape serves the purposes of the Never Trump movement so perfectly. Ten days after the debate humiliation at Hofstra, two weeks after GHW Bush endorsed Hillary, NOW this tape shows up?
Anyone remember The Firm? Ambitious young married attorney Tom Cruise captured on film having sex on the beach with … not his wife. The frolic was a honey trap, and captured on film, which was then used to blackmail him into strict loyalty. It could easily have been used to destroy him. And Trump would have been an easy mark for such a ploy: ambitious, arrogant, reckless, narcissistic, seeing himself as a Devil-may-care tough guy, but in reality a punk and a patsy.
If the Bush clan had anything to do with this tape, if this is revenge served cold for destroying the Republican Party and low-energy Jeb!’s shot at the brass ring, they will have performed a valuable national service.
