Speaking at a campaign fundraiser for his brother Jeb! in Denver Sunday, former President George W. Bush had a few words for numerous Republican candidates seeking the nomination. “I am extremely tough on people coming into this country”. I mean, it’s hard to believe that you had these 18 or 19 people and nobody – nobody – knew what they were doing.
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And now, Donald Trump is showing his politically incorrect bona fides by attacking the much repeated claim that George W. Bush “kept us safe”. “Because, let’s face it, you can’t say the country was safe when the World Trade Center came down during his regime”.
“I just don’t like that guy”, Bush said.
Criticizing the front-runner, Bush insisted Trump “has been ignorant and dismissive of the world’s most unsafe terrorist organizations, saying that we shouldn’t have gone into Afghanistan to hunt al-Qaeda and end the safe haven for terror provided by the Taliban, only to retreat from that stance this week”. “We were attacked & my brother kept us safe”, he tweeted.
Sunday saw a lot of jabs back and forth between Republican presidential hopefuls Donald Trump and Jeb Bush, who are now 1st and 5th in the polls, respectively.
Spurred on by Trump, Bush is showing none of the hesitation in embracing his brother’s presidency that tripped him up in the weeks leading to the formal launch of his 2016 campaign. “I am extremely, extremely tough on illegal immigration”.
Real-estate tycoon Donald Trump thinks things would have been different on September 11, 2001, if he had been president.
Jeb Bush, a Republican presidential candidate, at a September town hall meeting in Mason City, Iowa. Totally false…”BUSH: “I’m not going to be bought by anybody.”TRUMP: “I promise if I wanted it, I would have gotten it.”THE FACTS: Trump’s hopes of expanding casino operations in Florida in the mid-1990s were well known at the time”.
And both Jeb Bush and Trump are pushing their attacks further rather than backing off. “Jeb is fighting to defend a catastrophic event”.
Jeb pointed to what he believes to be major differences between Benghazi and 9/11.
Faced with the rather straightforward question of “if your brother and his administration bear no responsibility at all [for 9/11], how do you then make the jump that President Obama and Secretary Clinton are responsible for what happened at Benghazi?”
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“Biden worries us a little more because he has the likability factor”, campaign manager Barry Bennet said last week. For Trump, judging the Iraq war is yet another way to get under fellow Republican candidate Jeb Bush’s skin. “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”, he added about Trump.
