Donald Trump, Jeb Bush again dispute George W. Bush and 9/11

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump said that the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on the World Trade Centers would not have happened if he was president.

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?” “I believe if I were running this country …

But the New York native did suggest that the then-president was responsible for what he sees as a wide array of intelligence and immigration policy failures that contributed to the unprecedented attack on the city’s World Trade Center, as well as the Pentagon outside Washington, D.C.

On Monday, when “Fox & Friends” host Brian Kilmeade offered Jeb’s rival Donald Trump a convenient off-ramp from the escalating Republican-on-Republican assault he began last week, the billionaire mogul rejected the deal in favor of continuing to hammer the Bush brothers. “After 9/11”, Jeb Bush wrote, “my brother rallied the nation, calmed our fears and kept us safe”. ‘I met my wife Heidi working on his campaign, and so will always be grateful to him’. “I think there’s there an a-priori logic problem in that”, said Murphy, who is the chief strategist at Bush’s “Right To Rise” Super-PAC that has received more than $100 million in donations for the 2016 primary. “The World Trade Centre came down during his reign”. Bush insisted, “Trump echoes the attacks of Michael Moore and the fringe Left against my brother is yet another example of his dicey views on national-security issues”.

Trump added that his own tough stance on illegal immigration would have made it difficult for the attacks to be carried out in the first place.

The former Governor of Florida, who trails Mr Trump in the polls, also released this video lampooning the property tycoon’s grasp on foreign policy. Trump’s aim is to use the situation to his advantage by pulling in support from other people who feel the same way about Bush. But the fact is, he said the country was safe.

It’s unsurprising: Trump and Cruz have a history of criticizing the GOP establishment, both before and during the election, and the Bush family is for all intents and purposes the monarchy of the Republican Party. “The great majority of Americans believe that”, Bush said. But Jeb Bush’s campaign pushed back against that characterization. “Across the spectrum of foreign policy, Mr Trump talks about things as though he’s still on The Apprentice”.

“When Trump quits” is the latest such story on Politico, followed by a Politico magazine piece, beneath a big picture of “The Donald”, in which British writer Alastair Campbell argues, “America, Your Presidential Election is Nuts”.