Jenna Bush Hager forgets key detail about her own margarita-related arrest
In 2001, Hager made headlines several times for some party-girl-style shenanigans while attending the University of Texas at Austin. That February, just a month after her father George W. Bush was sworn in as President of the United States, it was revealed that Hager had asked her Secret Service detail to drive to the Tarrant County jail in Fort Worth. There, Hager and the Secret Service picked up one of Hager's male friends who had spent time in the drunk tank for underage drinking at a Texas Christian University frat party. Quibble with the optics if you want, but that's extremely Real One Behavior.
Then, in April 2001, Hager and her friends were busted for underage drinking on Sixth Street in Austin. Evidently, Hager was given the coolest Secret Service detail ever assembled. According to Texas Monthly, Hager and her friends were allowed to go into Cheers Shot Bar. At the same time, the Secret Service agents sat in a car outside, only to watch an undercover Austin police sting group go in and give Hager a minor in possession charge.
That wasn't the end of it. A month later, in May 2001, Hager (who had pleaded no contest to that MIP charge) was at Chuy's with her twin sister, Barbara Pierce Bush, and a friend. Hager pulled out a fake ID to order a margarita, only to be recognized by waitstaff at the restaurant. The Chuy's manager called the cops on the Bush twins, and both were again cited. Per Texas Monthly, again, Hager's Secret Service detail attempted to try to quell the whole fracas by telling Austin police the twins would leave. But according to a later police report, Chuy's Manager Mia Lawrence later told Austin Police that she wanted the twins to "get into big trouble." Let he who hasn't tried to underage drink at Chuy's cast the first stone.
Already, Hager was an easy mark for tabloids and political reporters alike. In 2000, the National Enquirer published a photo of Hager at UT Austin smoking a cigarette. But because it was the 2000s, and the wild party lifestyle of a Republican president's daughter is the perfect fodder for a media firestorm, the tabloids went nuts. The New York Post's front-page headline called the president's daughter "Jenna and Tonic," and then-First Lady Laura Bush told CNN that "if we never saw their pictures in the paper again, we'd be a lot happier."
“Party girl shenanigans and locker room talk” are republican excuses for illegal behaviors that land the rest of the world in jail and in the punitive court system.
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