Trump is Trolling Jeb Again: I Would Have Prevented 9/11

This is why I'm a Trump Democrat.

http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/why-im-trump-democrat.html

The guy just keeps me laughing and laughing. Even Hillary says he is very funny. You can't deny it. 

"Donald Trump says he's not blaming George W. Bush for 9/11, but he claims that if he'd been president, the attacks never would have happened."

"In an appearance on "Fox News Sunday," the real estate mogul said that since he's "extremely, extremely tough on immigration" the attackers wouldn't have been in position to commandeer U.S. flights."

"So there's a good chance that those people would not have been in our country," Trump said.

"He took another shot at Jeb Bush for claiming that Bush's brother, the 43rd president, kept the nation safe."

"I'm not blaming George Bush," Trump said. "But I don't want Jeb Bush to say, 'My brother kept us safe,' because September 11 was one of the worst days in the history of this country."

"It wasn't just on the Sunday shows that Trump attacked Bush over his brother's tenure."

"On Twitter, as the "Fox News Sunday" interview aired, Trump tweeted: "Jeb, why did your brother attack and destabalize the Middle East by attacking Iraq when there were no weapons of mass destruction? Bad info?"

"He also tweeted: "Jeb Bush should stop trying to defend his brother and focus on his own shortcomings and how to fix them."

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/18/politics/donald-trump-jeb-bush-9-11/

Obviously like everything Trump says there's a lot of hyperbole to unpack but I'm not going to waste time unpacking it.

But despite the hyperbole there is a grain of truth here; just like that old African-American saying: Only the truth hurts.

The last thing that Jeb wants to do is have to defend his brother-politically speaking; emotionally though it's too hard for him to let go, Yet Trump is painting him into this corner again.

As Ezra Klein says, Trump has discovered Jeb's Achilles Heel and it's not his low energy.

"I don't know if Donald Trump will win the Republican nomination. But even if he doesn't, it's increasingly clear he's going to destroy Jeb Bush before he loses."

"Over the past week, Trump and Bush have been in an argument that basically boils down to the question of was George W. Bush president on 9/11/2001?"

"Trump insists that Bush was president both prior to and during the 9/11 attacks, and he was therefore at least partly responsible for the security failures that permitted the tragedy. And to Trump's credit, there is considerable evidence that George W. Bush was president on 9/11/2001."

"Jeb Bush's position is harder to parse: he argues that his brother was only responsible for what happened after 9/11, suggesting, perhaps, that someone else bore the responsibilities of the presidency on 9/11/2001. Or, to be a bit kinder to his position, he argues that the measure of as president isn't whether something like 9/11 happens, but whether it happens again."

"The result is this absolutely brutal interview CNN's Jake Tapper conducted with Bush. "If your brother and his administration bear no responsibility at all," Tapper asks, "how do you then make the jump that President Obama and Secretary Clinton are responsible for what happened at Benghazi?"

"Bush's response is almost physically painful to watch."

"Trump has a bully's instinct for finding someone else's true weaknesses. His continued crack that Bush is a "low-energy" candidate is devastating precisely because it identifies a weakness not just in Bush's campaign style, but in the nature of his campaign."

"Now Trump has pulled Bush into an even more dangerous quagmire: his brother's presidency. Trump is reminding every Republican voter that nominating Jeb Bush will mean running a general election campaign with two disadvantages. First, Republicans will have to answer for George W. Bush's failures in a way they wouldn't if they nominated Marco Rubio or Carly Fiorina or Donald Trump, and second, they'll need to somehow explain why they're holding Hillary Clinton responsible for Obama's presidency even as they don't hold George W. Bush responsible for George W. Bush's presidency."

http://www.vox.com/2015/10/18/9564267/donald-trump-jeb-bush-911

I don't know whether Bill Clinton really did tell Trump to urn or not. If he didn't then clearly God is a Clinton Democrat.