He’s been running the country like he’s on Jack & Coke, but…
New York- Did George W. Bush ever do coke? And what about wine and women?
Now that Kitty Kelley has spotlighted the lurid charge of cocaine use at Camp David in her latest scandal book, “The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty,” The National Enquirer is weighing in with its own investigation headlined “More Proof Bush Used Cocaine.”
The issue hitting the streets today quotes Bush detractor Toby Rogers concerning an April 1998 Houston lunch he allegedly had with Bush family friend Michael C. Dannenhauer, a meal described in detail in Rogers’ book, “Ambushed: Secrets of the Bush Family, the Stolen Presidency, 9-11 and 2004.”
Rogers tells the tabloid: “During my lunch with Dannenhauer, I told him I heard that George W. [then Texas governor] was a real party animal. He just rolled his eyes and told me, ‘Between you and me, he’s been out of control since college.’
“Dannenhauer also confided, ‘There was cocaine use, lots of women, but the drinking was the worst.’ According to Dannenhauer, Bush’s use of cocaine started sometime before 1977, and his father told Dannenhauer that Junior even experienced some ‘lost weekends in Mexico.’
“Dannenhauer was implying that the President’s son had experienced his fair share of excessive drugging, boozing and womanizing south of the border.”
Yesterday Enquirer editor in chief David Perel told me: “These stories are nothing to snort at.”
But deputy White House press secretary Trent Duffy insisted: “It appears to be the same trash that’s been discredited, disavowed or dismissed years ago.”