Many took this as Trump blaming Bush, but on FOX & Friends, Trump said he was responding to Jeb Bush saying his brother kept the country safe. “While I agree that we stick our noses into too many problems not of our making and that we can’t do much about, I strongly disagree with the idea that we can pull up the drawbridge to hide from rogue nations or individual fanatics”. I don’t know if you remember, Donald – you remember the rubble? “Don’t blame him or don’t blame him, but he was president”, Trump continued. “And most of those hijackers overstayed their visas, so unless he came in – and the first thing that President Trump would have done is said, ‘I need the Central Intelligence Agency to talk to the Federal Bureau of Investigation”.
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TAPPER: Well that’s, that’s kind of proving the point of the critics I was just asking about, because you don’t want to have your brother bear responsibility for 9/11 and I understand that argument and Al Qaeda’s responsible, but why are the terrorists not the ones who are responsible for these attacks in Libya?
“Biden worries us a little more because he has the likability factor”, campaign manager Barry Bennet said last week. “The World Trade Center came down during his reign”. He united the country, he organized our country and he kept us safe.
The billionaire businessman has clarified that he is not blaming former President Bush for the attacks, but insisted that 9/11 proves America was not safe under his leadership.
Trump’s comments Friday about George W. Bush and 9/11 were angrily rebutted by Jeb Bush, who called the remark “pathetic”. One can only hope that Trump ramps up his attacks on Jeb as a surrogate for his brothers’ incompetence and failure to keep Americans’ safe. Whereas House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy put a stake through the Benghazi committee’s heart, and Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) damaged the evangelical Republican crusade to destroy Planned Parenthood, it may be Donald Trump who handed Democrats a nicely-wrapped gift they can ill-afford to squander.
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The Donald Trump/Jeb Bush feud started during the second GOP debate when the two candidates got into it over the way Jeb’s brother George W. Bush handled the terrorist attacks. “It doesn’t show that he’s a serious person as it relates to being commander in chief and being the architect of a foreign policy”.
