Trump Spox: ‘No One Wants Another Bush in This Country’

PIERSON: "And no one disagrees that the leadership that George Bush had after 9/11 and I think we can all agree that Jeb Bush is no George Bush."
KORNACKI: "So where does this go from here? You're talking about this is a former president of the United States coming into South Carolina this week, obviously their father George H.W. Bush was a president as well. The Bush family for decades, for generations has occupied a very sort of high place in the republican party's sort of infrastructure. If Donald Trump is the Republican nominee does he want the Bush family at the convention, on the campaign trail? Does he want them around anymore?"
PIERSON: "Donald Trump attended the convention with father Bush so this isn't really about the Bush family. This is about Donald Trump being an outsider, being unafraid to talk about the failures on both sides of the aisle and this is what an outsider does. Donald Trump wants to come into this country and make it great again talking about all of the policies that most of these Republicans won't even touch. Some of these things would have never been discussed without Donald Trump. He is not trying to make enemies of the Bush family but no one wants another Bush in this country. No one wants to stay in the Middle East another 15 years without a plan and Donald Trump is out there talking to the American people, talking to veterans, talking to the working class in a way that no other candidate has been able to do."
KORNACKI: "But when you say he wants to make America great again does that mean America was not great under George W. Bush?"
PIERSON: "What it means is that we've had trillions of dollars spent in wars, tens of thousands of lives that have been lost because we have lawyers on the battlefield. He wants to put people back in politics. Let the country have a say. We have policies in place from George Bush to Barack Obama that were never popular among the people. I mean, look at these trade deals which are very important moving forward because every other candidate on the stage the other night supports Barack Obama's Fast Track to these trade deals which are worse than NAFTA and NAFTA eliminated a third of the manufacturing jobs in South Carolina. Under Bush the trade deficit rose from $300 billion to 700 billion. We've imported 24 million foreign workers, which drives down wages and cuts jobs for Americans. So I would say, yes, it's time to get away from that, get back to common sense and putting Americans first."