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politics and politicians Title: Trump faces backlash for blaming ex-President George W. Bush for 9/11 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." Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 16. Trump is correct on 9/11. GWBush was POTUS and was tasked to safeguardd the nation. GWBush allowed the 19 terrorists to stay in America illegally. GWBush and the federal government did not do their respectives jobs.
#4. To: buckeroo (#1) GWBush allowed the 19 terrorists to stay in America illegally. Have you lost your freaking mind? Boy Jorge didn't "allow" them to do anything. He didn't even know they were here. 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.
#8. To: sneakypete (#4) Boy Jorge didn't "allow" them to do anything. Did 9/11 occur duing GWBush's watch over the nation or was it some other administration? The madman was asleep at the wheel.
#10. To: buckeroo (#8) Did 9/11 occur duing GWBush's watch 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?
#14. To: no gnu taxes (#10) He was a dummy. Here he is teaching a student how to read on 9/11.
#15. To: buckeroo (#14) You resort to leftard photoshopped images to try and make some kind of ridiculous point?
#16. To: no gnu taxes (#15) 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.
Replies to Comment # 16. You voted for the dumb fuck who single-handedly brought America to its knees. Meaningless leftard drivel
#20. To: buckeroo (#16) You voted for the dumb fuck who single-handedly brought America to its knees. Not true! Boy Jorge is maybe capable of single-handedly going to the liquor store on his own,but that's about it.
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