Florida Gov. Jeb Bush took aim at Donald Trump in the Republican debate Wednesday night after Trump said Bush was a puppet to his donors.
Bush singled out Trump as the "one guy" who tried to get him to change his position on something after giving him money.
"The one guy that had some special interest that I know of, that try'd to get me to change my views on somethings, that was generous and gave me money was Donald Trump. He wanted casino gambling in Florida."
"Totally false," said Trump.
"You wanted it and you didn't get it," replied Bush, noting he opposed it before and after the election. Trump held a fundraiser for Bush in that 1998 election and donated heavily to the Florida Republican Party.
Trump added, "I promise, if I wanted it I could have gotten it."
At the same time, Bush tweeted a link to the CNN article, "Jeb Bush: The man who killed Trump's casino dreams."
Jeb Bush: The man who killed Trump's casino dreams http://t.co/xKtn3Pl7lq
From the CNN article:
He did so for Jeb Bush in 1998, holding a high-dollar fundraiser for the gubernatorial candidate in Trump Tower and shelling out $50,000 to the Florida Republican Party. But when Bush took office in 1999, Trump didn't get the political help he needed to make his casino dreams a reality in the Sunshine State.
Instead, Bush maintained his hardline stance against gambling in the state, delivering a death blow to Trump's hopes of building out a multi-million dollar casino endeavor with the Seminole Tribe of Florida and prompting him to abandon those plans.