George W. Bush describes Jan. 6 incidence as an attack on democracy

USA Former President George W. Bush says the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol “disgusted” him, describing it as an attack on democracy.

W. Bush said in a taped interview aired on Thursday for the SXSW conference out of Austin, Texas, “I was sick to my stomach.”

Though he did not mention ex-President Donald Trump’s name but said, he was disgusted “to see our nation’s Capitol being stormed by hostile forces.” The attack “really disturbed me to the point where I did put out a statement, and I’m still disturbed when I think about it,” he said.

“It undermines rule of law and the ability to express yourself in peaceful ways in the public square,” Bush told interviewer Evan Smith, the CEO of the Texas Tribune. “This was an expression that was not peaceful.”

In the interview he also added, tapped on February 24, that he regards Joe Biden as a legitimately elected President. He did not say a word about Trump’s protests during the election process.

“I think the election, all elections, have some kind of improprieties,” Bush said at one point, but he added, “the results of this election, though, were confirmed when Joe Biden got inaugurated as President.”

When asked specifically if he thinks the election was stolen, the answer was: “No.”

Bush used the interview to promote a new book on immigration to be published on April 20. In Out of Many, One: Portraits of America’s Immigrants, Bush offers stories and his painting of a selected group of migrants who have succeeded in America.

If anything, he said his book is a “rebuke of Congress” for its incapability to join hands for improvements to the immigration system.