Jeb Bush appeared Thursday evening to confirm earlier reports that his father plans to vote for Hillary Clinton against GOP nominee Donald Trump.
“I thought it was a little inappropriate for a person to overhear a frail, 92-year-old man in a private setting at a reception for the Points of Light Foundation, which focuses on volunteerism, to hear this and then immediately go on Facebook and put it on there, and go on national television and not even show up at the board meeting,” Bush told NBC News’ Jordan Frasier Thursday evening.
“I thought that was inappropriate,” Bush said.
Reports that the former president plans to vote for Clinton can be traced back to a Sept. 19 Facebook post from Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the eldest child of Robert F. Kennedy.
“The President told me he’s voting for Hillary!!” the former lieutenant governor of Maryland wrote.
On Sept. 21, CNN published a report citing anonymous sources that claimed they heard the alleged exchange between Bush and Kennedy Townsend.
The same nameless sources also told CNN that this wasn’t even the first time that Bush had said he would vote for Clinton against GOP nominee Donald Trump.
Though the Bush family makes its dislike for Trump no secret, it has not come right out and stated unequivocally that the former president will vote for the Democratic nominee on Nov. 8.
Jeb Bush’s remarks Thursday evening are the closest that anyone in his family has come to confirming Kennedy Townsend’s Facebook note.
A spokesman for the Bush family did not respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment.
