Is he ever!kalm wrote:Trumpster laying some serious wood to Bush now. Even Salon agrees with him.And Jeb has surrounded himself with the same neo-cons.
If Bush had been a Democrat, everyone would be agreeing with Trump on this.
http://www.salon.com/2015/10/22/donald_ ... m_partner/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;But right now, we’re in one of those rare moments when Donald Trump is right—and even more astoundingly, he’s the only one. As the billionaire calls BS on mythologizing around 9/11 and how George W. Bush “kept us safe”—a myth Jeb Bush has turned into a mantra on the campaign trail—Trump deserves credit for actually nailing it this time, and for saying what neither Republicans nor Democrats have had the courage to publicly utter in more than a decade.
The kerfuffle started last week with a Bloomberg TV interview in which Trump stated about George W. Bush, “Blame him, or don’t blame him, but he was president.” He continued, “The World Trade Center came down during his reign.”
Jeb Bush responded via Twitter, calling Trump “pathetic” and insisting, “We were attacked & my brother kept us safe.”
“No,” Trump returned, “you’re pathetic for saying nothing happened during your brother’s term when the World Trade Center was attacked and came down.”
And here, Trump makes perhaps the most honest, sanest, and above all, unassailably correct statement he’s uttered during this campaign season thus far. Though endless outlets criticized the billionaire for blaming Bush for the attacks (and I’ll defer to Peter Beinart’s excellent Atlantic piece on why that’s also true), the question of blame is essentially irrelevant. What’s unquestionably true is that Bush did not keep us safe, a basic reality revealed by the fact of 9/11. It’s not rocket science. And yet, for 13 years now, even Bush’s foes haven’t said as much.
In the days since that appearance, Trump has used his Twitter to double down on his remarks, highlighting issues that seem likely to damage Jeb Bush’s campaign and to make it difficult to continue his defense of his brother. These tweets included an article pointing out that Jeb Bush, in his 2013 bookImmigration Wars, had written that 9/11 could partly be attributed to the U.S.’ “leaky immigration” policy at the time; a link to a New York Times article pointing out that more than a month ahead of the attacks, during an intelligence briefing, Bush was provided with a classified document titled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S”; a reminder that none other than Jeb Bush was governor of Florida when all 12 of the highjackers acquired identification through legal means in the state; and a Buzzfeed News piece excerpting a 2000 letter by Trump warning of the potential for a major terrorist attack on U.S. soil, in which the billionaire makes specific reference to Osama bin Laden.
Can you believe this clown was considered the best the conks had to offer? Son of a president and brother of another, considered the smartest of a dim litter? A seasoned politician just getting the creeping bejeezus kicked out of him by a guy that supplied the character for Biff in Back to the Future? Where's gonadface to tell how the conks are on a streak and everything is under control...
Truly this is a wonderful time for a person who likes humor in their politics. If Trump doesn't slow his stroke and use more lube Jeb's poop chute is going to spontaneously combust...
This is just too good..... Monty Python doesn't come close...
