The feud between Donald Trump and Jeb Bush has been one of the most prominent storylines of the 2016 presidential election, and Bush has rarely gotten the better of Trump during their exchanges at Republican debates—until Saturday night, when Bush’s attack on the real estate developer about an attempted Atlantic City eminent domain seizure left Trump being booed heavily by the audience at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire.
The transcript of Trump’s end of that exchange (via the Washington Post) is pretty funny:
Trump: A lot of time—let me talk.
Bush: How tough it is to take away a property from an elderly woman?
Trump: Quiet. A lot of times …
[Booing]
Trump: … that’s all of his donors and special interests out there.
[Booing]
Trump: So—it’s what it is. That’s what—and by the way, let me just tell you, we needed tickets. You can’t get them. You know who has the tickets for the—I’m talking about, to the television audience? Donors, special interests, the people that are putting up the money
[Booing]
Trump: That’s who it is. The RNC told us. We have all donors in the audience. And the reason they’re not loving me…
[Booing]
For what it’s worth, Katy Tur of NBC reports (seemingly via the Republican National Committee, which did manage ticket allocation and would probably prefer that Trump isn’t the nominee) that there are 75 donors in the audience:
Here’s more on conservative concerns about Trump’s use of eminent domain.
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