--- title: Jeb Bush Defends Anti-Trump Magazine Over Debate description: It lost a debate sponsorship. canonical: https://time.com/4190336/jeb-bush-donald-trump-national-review/ author: Zeke Miller article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-22T16:06:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T14:21:58.715Z article:section: Politics og:title: Bush Defends Anti-Trump Magazine og:description: National Review was removed as a debate sponsor. og:url: https://time.com/4190336/jeb-bush-donald-trump-national-review/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3d9eb9fa6fe9eae8/69887a30524fc00b62df6674/jeb-bush-national-review.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations on January 19, 2016 in New York City. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Bush Defends Anti-Trump Magazine twitter:description: National Review was removed as a debate sponsor. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3d9eb9fa6fe9eae8/69887a30524fc00b62df6674/jeb-bush-national-review.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Bush Defends Anti-Trump Magazine Over Debate by [Zeke Miller](https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke Miller Jan 22, 2016 4:06 PM UTC  Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations on January 19, 2016 in New York City. Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations on January 19, 2016 in New York City.Andrew Burton—Getty Images by [Zeke Miller](https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke Miller Jan 22, 2016 4:06 PM UTC Former Florida Gov Jeb Bush criticized the Republican National Committee for removing _National Review_ as a sponsor of a GOP debate next month after the outlet editorialized against Donald Trump. In an interview with Fox News, Bush said the national party was wrong to criticize the outlet for “telling the truth” about Trump. On Thursday, the conservative magazine published an entire issue devoted to attacking Trump as a non-conservative. The RNC informed _National Review_ late Thursday that it would be stripped of its cosponsor title as a result. **Read More:** [_GOP Establishment Takes Sides Between Trump and Cruz_](http://time.com/4190037/donald-trump-ted-cruz-establishment-sides/) The magazine issue comes as many in the Republican Establishment are taking sides between Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, the top two candidates in the GOP primary. Trump already fired back against the magazine on Twitter. > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/690382722162913280) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4190336/jeb-bush-donald-trump-national-review/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4190336/jeb-bush-donald-trump-national-review/"},"headline":"Bush Defends Anti-Trump Magazine Over Debate","datePublished":"2016-01-22T16:06:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T14:21:58.715Z","description":"It lost a debate sponsorship.","url":"https://time.com/4190336/jeb-bush-donald-trump-national-review/","keywords":["jeb bush","2016 Election topic","Donald Trump","Debates"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3d9eb9fa6fe9eae8/69887a30524fc00b62df6674/jeb-bush-national-review.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Zeke Miller","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3d9eb9fa6fe9eae8/69887a30524fc00b62df6674/jeb-bush-national-review.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations on January 19, 2016 in New York City.","caption":"Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations on January 19, 2016 in New York City.","creditText":"Andrew Burton—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/jeb-bush/","name":"jeb bush"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4190336/jeb-bush-donald-trump-national-review/","name":"Bush Defends Anti-Trump Magazine Over Debate"}}]}] ```