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Title: Trump faces backlash for blaming ex-President George W. Bush for 9/11
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USA Today
URL Source: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/ ... nt-george-w-bush-911/74129434/
Published: Oct 17, 2015
Author: Erin Kelly
Post Date: 2015-10-18 04:28:44 by Deckard
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Views: 7027
Comments: 78
WASHINGTON — Prominent Republicans are condemning GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump for suggesting that former President George W. Bush is partly to blame for the 9/11 terrorist attacks that happened during his administration. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., former chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, called Trump's comments "a cheap shot." "I think Donald Trump is totally wrong there," King said Friday during an interview on Fox News Radio. "Anyone who has any real knowledge of that — you can get all the CIA people, all of the career people — no one saw the attack of 9/11 coming. And to blame George Bush for what happened on September 11...shows a lack of knowledge and is too much of a cheap shot at the president." Ben Carson, one of Trump's rivals for the GOP presidential nomination, said blaming Bush "wouldn't make much sense." "I think it's ridiculous to suggest that (Bush) is responsible for it," Carson said during a brief campaign stop Friday night in Alexandria, Va. Ari Fleischer, former White House press secretary during the Bush administration, told CNN that Trump sounds like a "truther," a term applied to conspiracy theorists who believe that the U.S. government was behind the 9/11 attacks. "I just think he (Trump) belongs to an extraordinarily small faction of people who blame 9/11 on George Bush," Fleischer said. The controversy began Friday when Bloomberg Television released an interview with Trump in which the billionaire businessman said he was more competent than the former president. "When you talk about George Bush, I mean — say what you want — the World Trade Center came down during his time," Trump said. Bloomberg’s Stephanie Ruhle then interrupted and said Trump couldn’t blame Bush for the attacks that left nearly 3,000 Americans dead. “He was president, okay?" Trump responded. "Blame him or don’t blame him, but he was president. The World Trade Center came down during his reign.” Trump's comments immediately drew an angry response from the ex-president's brother, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who is competing with Trump for the Republican nomination for president. "How pathetic for (Trump) to criticize the president for 9/11," Jeb Bush tweeted Friday. "We were attacked and my brother kept us safe." Bush's response set off a Twitter battle with Trump, who called his rival "pathetic" for "saying nothing happened during your brother's term when the World Trade Center was attacked and came down."
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#9. To: Deckard (#0)
Only Trump can get away with saying something like this. Even Rand Paul wouldn't go this far. What happens when Trump finally says something like this just one time too many? To make headlines and get all the free media he's hogging, Trump has to produce some mini-scandal or media event every week. Otherwise, he'll deflate and become just another pol.
What watch are you talking about? Was he flying around in a hovercraft looking for some nefarious activities around the country? He had been president 8 months. Nobody knew this planned activity was going to occur, even though it had been in planning for years. How was Bush supposed to know anything about it? Obama has played at being a president while enjoying the perks … golf, insanely expensive vacations at tax-payer expense. He has ignored the responsibilities of the job; no plans, no budgets, no alternatives … just finger pointing; making him a complete failure as a president
Even Rand Paul wouldn't go this far. What happens when Trump finally says something like this just one time too many? Now the businessman from NY is a truther. Next he'll say that the Pentagon was hit with missiles. What happens when Trump finally says something like this just one time too many? The plan is to get him the nomination.... then the press will turn on him. This happened with McCain too. He was the NY Slimes favorite 'maverick ' until the day that he became the nominee. Then the narrative changed and he was a crazy right winger . Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
He's gotten pretty close to it before. Trump flirts with Truthery.
If you recall when he was notified of the attack he was at a school in Florida and didn't show any reaction when he was notified.
He was a dummy. Here he is teaching a student how to read on 9/11.
You resort to leftard photoshopped images to try and make some kind of ridiculous point?
Obama has played at being a president while enjoying the perks … golf, insanely expensive vacations at tax-payer expense. He has ignored the responsibilities of the job; no plans, no budgets, no alternatives … just finger pointing; making him a complete failure as a president
You voted for the dumb fuck who single-handedly brought America to its knees. Blame yourself for the ongoing wreck that shall continue long after you are 6 feet under.
Meaningless leftard drivel Obama has played at being a president while enjoying the perks … golf, insanely expensive vacations at tax-payer expense. He has ignored the responsibilities of the job; no plans, no budgets, no alternatives … just finger pointing; making him a complete failure as a president
Yes,he was the current president at the time,but so what? PLEASE tell me you aren't so ignorant of reality that you think a President actually keeps track of this stuff. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
He will continue to get away with it as long as it continues to help the left's agenda. IMHO,he is going to lose his attraction to the media when it is too late for any actual conservative to even think of entering the race and gaining any traction. Once he drops out to start collecting his "loans" and government contracts,JEB is back big-time,and the world is once again safe for the Globalists. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Not true! Boy Jorge is maybe capable of single-handedly going to the liquor store on his own,but that's about it. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Even Rand Paul wouldn't go this far. What happens when Trump finally says something like this just one time too many? To make headlines and get all the free media he's hogging, Trump has to produce some mini-scandal or media event every week. Otherwise, he'll deflate and become just another pol. "Jeb [Bush] said 'We were safe with my brother. We were safe.' Well, the World Trade Center just went down. Now, am I trying to blame him? I'm not blaming anybody, but the World Trade Center came down, so when he said we were safe, we were not safe. We lost 3,000 people. It was one of the greatest — probably the greatest catastrophe ever in this country," the Republican presidential hopeful said. If he were president, Trump said, it would have been different. "I am extremely, extremely tough on people coming into this country," Trump said. And if he were president then, he said, he doubted "those people would've been in the country. … There's a good chance that those people would not have been in the country. "With that being said," he added, "I'm not blaming George Bush, but I don't want Jeb Bush to say 'My brother kept us safe,' because Sept. 11 was one of the worst days in the history of this country." Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/trump-immigration-terror- attacks-214905#ixzz3oskugDbL
You two are morons if you disagree with what I just posted. What Trump said.
You're pathetic. You're not only an activist for perverts. You also lie and spin. Trump never said Bush attacked the WTC. Shame liar.
Get a clue you mental midget. Bush's open border policy allowed the foreigners to be here. Trumps policy of deporting the foreigners might have kept these people out of the country. So stop making stuff up. You sound insane when you do.
The anti-Trump folks are dishonest by nature. They are trying to label him as a 9-11 truther, but in fact the 9-11 truth whack jobs are against him, we see that on this forum. 9-11 truthers are the same ones who like dope, and they are against Trump. Trump has a pretty good list of people who don't like him: Non auro, sed ferro, recuperando est patria
What actual conservative?
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The morons are anybody that believes Trump. The only people he has ever been tough one,are the people who believed in him and invested with him. One of his lines I love is him claiming he felt like a veteran because he went to private military school before dodging the draft. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Now you are reduced to spinning for your lust bunny. Did or did not Trump claim that Boy Jorge was responsible for the attacks on 9-11? Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Is that a part of his same policy of bringing in thousands to work cheaper than Americans for his corporate interests? Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Give us a bleeping break! The morons who believe in him ARE dopes. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Since he,in conjunction with the leftist media have sucked all the air out of the room,there is no room or money available for any of the rare conservatives in politics to even get started,so we will never know,will we? Trump shows up and starts claiming to be a conservative,so he gets all the support. If you believe that life-long trust fund child from NYC and NJ who is friends with the Clinton's is a conservative,I've got a couple of brides I want to sell you. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
It's all you dumb ass postwar baby boomers, you losers fell for a bunch of Marxist drivel from the red diaper babies who grandparents left Russia, and had no intention once they ruled the joint when it was the USSR. Low life dirtbags smoke dope, minorities smoked pot buy dummies embraced ghetto culture. generation after generation built up America, and your "if it feels good, do it" generation tore apart the legacy that was handed down. If it's dag for America, you dirtbags are for it, free trade, open borders, sodomy, dope, you A-holes embrace it all. Non auro, sed ferro, recuperando est patria
WOW! Sounds like somebody needs their diaper changed!
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
What's the matter Snuffy? Were you one of the losers raised on that Dr. Spock nonsense? I figure that might be one of the reasons your degeneration is so messed up. Non auro, sed ferro, recuperando est patria
Ach! Ya got me! How could I have ever hoped to fool someone as insightful as you? Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
I figured that had to be a factor, he was of the same bloodline as the red diaper babies. Anti-American to the core. Non auro, sed ferro, recuperando est patria
No surprise there. I could smell the smoke over the internet. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
GWBush believed in mass illegal immigration to America. As POTUS, commanding the operational approach to America's administration, illegals were given "carte-blanche" through his eight years. What a dispacable human being he was, allowing illegals to come across America's soverign border by the thousands while he made up reasons to create a war in Iraq + Afghanistan.
A president would, but Bush didn't. He was a little kid pretending to be president being driven around in a four wheeled dirt vehicle for photo-ops and shouting MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. He's never been anything of substance in his life.
What a dispacable human being he was, allowing illegals to come across America's soverign border by the thousands while he made up reasons to create a war in Iraq + Afghanistan. I couldn't agree more,but that doesn't mean he knew the 9-11 attacks were going to happen,and allowed them to happen. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Neither has any other president we have had since Reagan left office. Hell,I can't even remember having any serious CANDIDATES that were worth a damn. Politics in this country is now a fixed game,and the only ones who are going to be allowed to win are the Party Favorite accomplices. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
He knew about plans. He received a daily briefing warning of an emminent attack. He did nothing; well, he encouraged more illegal aliens to invade America; his brother Jeb! calls it "love."
Trump has been using his own money until recently. Anyone who would like to run has had opportunity to do so. Do you honestly think the GOP would support an actual conservative?
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Your last sentence is very true. Conservatives don't have a prayer in the GOP to have influence on the running of this nation.
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You may keep your brides. Whatever Trump is, he has both parties gunning for him. Of course, the whole thing may be a Dog and Pony Show. I'm really not naive.
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Sounds like Jorge is a libertarian. Q: What is your view of the immigration issue? A: Hispanics who immigrate care about their families like other Americans care about their families. They’re living in poverty in Mexico and can come to the US and do a lot better. Gary Johnson, January 2001. Now just how are Libertarians different from the Arbusto clan? Non auro, sed ferro, recuperando est patria
This is the first time I have heard that allegation. Frankly,I don't believe it. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
No,he hasn't. Not a dime. He has bragged about being wealthy enough to finance his own campaign if he wants to,but has been running off of donor money so far. Do you honestly think the GOP would support an actual conservative? I honestly believe the GOP would do everything in it's power to keep an actual conservative from running for president,including giving money to the Dim candidate and stabbing their own candidate in the back at every opportunity. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
That has been MY suspicion from Day One. I guess we will be finding out in a few months if I am right or wrong. I just don't see Trump putting his fortune in a blind trust and letting someone else handle it for him for 4 years or more. He's too arrogant to think anyone can manage it better than him for that to ever happen. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest“He was president, okay?" Trump responded. "Blame him or don’t blame him, but he was president. The World Trade Center came down during his reign.”
#10. To: buckeroo (#8)
Did 9/11 occur duing GWBush's watch
#11. To: TooConservative (#9)
Only Trump can get away with saying something like this.
#12. To: tomder55 (#11)
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Now the businessman from NY is a truther. Next he'll say that the Pentagon was hit with missiles.
#13. To: buckeroo (#8)
Did 9/11 occur duing GWBush's watch over the nation or was it some other administration? The madman was asleep at the wheel.
#14. To: no gnu taxes (#10)
#15. To: buckeroo (#14)
#16. To: no gnu taxes (#15)
#17. To: buckeroo (#16)
You voted for the dumb fuck who single-handedly brought America to its knees.
#18. To: buckeroo (#8)
Did 9/11 occur duing GWBush's watch over the nation or was it some other administration?
#19. To: TooConservative (#9)
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Only Trump can get away with saying something like this.
#20. To: buckeroo (#16)
You voted for the dumb fuck who single-handedly brought America to its knees.
#21. To: TooConservative (#9)
Only Trump can get away with saying something like this.
#22. To: sneakypete, tooconservative (#21)
#23. To: sneakypete (#3)
Trump and JEB are both pathetic. Boy Jorge didn't attack the WTC. Saudi Arabia did.
#24. To: sneakypete (#4)
Yeah,he was the President when this happened and everything he did in response actually made everything worse,but implying he was a part of it is insane.
#25. To: A K A Stone (#23)
You're pathetic. You're not only an activist for perverts. You also lie and spin. Trump never said Bush attacked the WTC. Shame liar.
Potheads
RINO's
Illegal aliens
Free traitors
Drug cartels
ISIS
Rosie O'Donnell
Neocons
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#26. To: sneakypete (#19)
#27. To: A K A Stone (#22)
You two are morons if you disagree with what I just posted.
#28. To: A K A Stone (#23)
You're pathetic. You're not only an activist for perverts. You also lie and spin. Trump never said Bush attacked the WTC. Shame liar.
#29. To: A K A Stone (#24)
Trumps policy of deporting the foreigners might have kept these people out of the country.
#30. To: nativist nationalist (#25)
9-11 truthers are the same ones who like dope, and they are against Trump.
#31. To: Don (#26)
What actual conservative?
#32. To: sneakypete (#30)
Give us a bleeping break! The morons who believe in him ARE dopes.
#33. To: nativist nationalist (#32)
#34. To: sneakypete (#33)
WOW! Sounds like somebody needs their diaper changed!
#35. To: nativist nationalist (#34)
Were you one of the losers raised on that Dr. Spock nonsense?
#36. To: sneakypete (#35)
Ach! Ya got me!
#37. To: nativist nationalist (#36)
I figured....
#38. To: sneakypete (#18)
PLEASE tell me you aren't so ignorant of reality that you think a President actually keeps track of this stuff.
#39. To: sneakypete (#18)
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PLEASE tell me you aren't so ignorant of reality that you think a President actually keeps track of this stuff.
#40. To: buckeroo (#38)
GWBush believed in mass illegal immigration to America. As POTUS, commanding the operational approach to America's administration, illegals were given "carte-blanche" through his eight years.
#41. To: rlk (#39)
(Edited)
He's never been anything of substance in his life.
#42. To: sneakypete (#40)
#43. To: sneakypete (#31)
#44. To: sneakypete (#41)
#45. To: sneakypete (#31)
#46. To: buckeroo (#38)
GWBush believed in mass illegal immigration to America.
#47. To: buckeroo (#42)
He knew about plans. He received a daily briefing warning of an emminent attack.
#48. To: Don (#43)
Trump has been using his own money until recently.
#49. To: Don (#45)
(Edited)
Of course, the whole thing may be a Dog and Pony Show.
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