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Jeb! Gives Kathleen Kennedy Townsend An ‘Inappropriate’ Tongue Lashing [VIDEO]

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Christian Datoc Senior White House Correspondent
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Jeb Bush lashed out at Kathleen Kennedy Townsend Thursday night for reporting the story that his father, former President George H.W. Bush, will vote for Hillary Clinton in the upcoming election.

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend speaks onstage as Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights hosts The 2015 Ripple Of Hope Awards (Getty Images)

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend speaks onstage as Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights hosts The 2015 Ripple Of Hope Awards (Getty Images)

The former Florida governor told reporters at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Business that it was “inappropriate” for Kennedy Townsend to have leaked the voter information of the elder Bush, a “private citizen,” reports Boston.com.

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“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 then go on national television and then not even show up at the board meeting,” (RELATED: Bush One Voting For Hillary?)

“I thought that was inappropriate.”

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