Trump, Bush Continue Battle Over 9/11 Comments and George W.
Republican Presidential candidate Jeb Bush cast doubt on rival Donald Trump’s judgment and ability to lead the United States in a complex world, saying the Republican front-runner discusses foreign policy like a reality show star.
“Look, Jeb said we were safe with my brother – We were safe”, Trump said on Fox News Sunday. “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”.
The dispute is a reheat of a row that began at the second Republican primary debate last month when Bush defended his brother against Mr Trump’s attacks with the “he kept us safe” line. For Jeb Bush to say, ‘My brother kept us safe, ‘ is not true, you know.
“I’m not blaming George Bush [for 9/11]”, Trump told Wallace.
“Do I blame George Bush?”. “Jeb said we were safe during his reign”.
On CNN Sunday, Bush said his brother had united the country in a crisis.
“We lost 3,000 people, it as one of the greatest – probably the greatest catastrophe ever in this country”, the New York billionaire said.
Accepting that “Trump is a phenomenal personality”, Bush, however, predicted that he will not succeed in winning the Republican party nomination.
Jeb responded on Sunday by saying he had “grave doubts” about whether Trump could be trusted with nuclear weapon codes, and said Trump wasn’t serious enough to be president.
Yesterday, CNN’s Jake Tapper stumped Bush with a simple question: If George Bush can’t be held accountable for 9/11, why can former Secretary Clinton be held accountable for the Benghazi attacks? “It looks like they didn’t get it”, Bush said.
Real-estate tycoon Donald Trump thinks things would have been different on September 11, 2001, if he had been president. “And I don’t know why [Trump] keeps bringing this up”. He also said that Trump is acting more like an actor pretending to be a presidential candidate rather than a real candidate. “It’s what you do after that matters”, he argued. “And that’s the sign of leadership”.
“You don’t want to have your brother to bear responsibility for 9/11, but why are the terrorists not the ones who are responsible for these attacks in Libya”.
In an interview with Press TV on Thursday, former Central Intelligence Agency contractor Steven D Kelley called the 9/11 incident one of the biggest lies that have been told to the American people.