Bush family behind release of tape against Trump: Analyst

The Bush family was behind the release of an 11-year-old tape that shows Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump making lewd comments about women, according to James Fetzer, an American scholar and a retired professor in Madison, Wisconsin.

On Friday, The Washington Post released a tape in which Trump is heard making lewd comments about women and having a conversation about trying to have sex with a married woman.

GOP officials, including governors, senators and congressmen across the US have disavowed Trump over the sexually obscene remarks caught on a hot microphone.

Even Trump’s apology for the remarks has failed to quell the unprecedented controversy over his comments, prompting growing demands by Republicans for him to quit the race.

“During the debate last night against Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump completely diffused the furor that has been created by the release of a tape 11 years ago, in a conversation with producer Billy Bush, who turns out to be a cousin of George Herbert Walker Bush,” Professor Fetzer said.

The scholar said the Bush family is “strongly opposed to Trump, because they represent the New World Order, and he’s out to defeat it. [They] were undoubtedly responsible for the release.”

In a debate on Sunday night, Trump and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton attacked each other with brutal exchanges during their second presidential debate a month before the Election Day.

The two candidates even broke traditional debate decorum by refusing to shake hands as they took the stage. At one point, Trump directly threatened Clinton with imprisonment during the debate, saying if he were president, “You’d be in jail.”

Trump promised that if he becomes president, he will ask his attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Clinton’s “situation” – a clear reference to Clinton’s email scandal.  

“Trump did a masterful job during the debate, and placed Hillary Clinton on the defensive at one point when she was suggesting that how important it was that he should not be  associated with the office of the attorney general, and he replied that because ‘You’d be in jail’. It was devastating,” Fetzer said.

“He said many things that critics of Clintons wanted to say for decades and never found a voice or an opportunity to say.  It was a compelling, persuasive, dominating, absolutely the most fascinating political event in the recent American history. And I believe it is going to change the course for better,” he stated.

Jeb Bush, who was once viewed as the favorite to win the GOP nomination, was forced to suspend his bid for the White House after losing a bitter fight to Trump.

The billionaire repeatedly attacked Bush during the primary race, calling him “weak,” “low-energy” and “an embarrassment” to the Bush family.

The entire Bush family, including Jeb and his father and brother, former Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, skipped the Republican National Convention in July, where Trump was officially nominated.

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