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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 # 48. “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.” Only Trump can get away with saying something like this. Even Rand Paul wouldn't go this far. What happens when Trump finally says something like this just one time too many? To make headlines and get all the free media he's hogging, Trump has to produce some mini-scandal or media event every week. Otherwise, he'll deflate and become just another pol.
#19. To: TooConservative (#9) (Edited) Only Trump can get away with saying something like this. He will continue to get away with it as long as it continues to help the left's agenda. IMHO,he is going to lose his attraction to the media when it is too late for any actual conservative to even think of entering the race and gaining any traction. Once he drops out to start collecting his "loans" and government contracts,JEB is back big-time,and the world is once again safe for the Globalists.
#26. To: sneakypete (#19) What actual conservative?
#31. To: Don (#26) What actual conservative? Since he,in conjunction with the leftist media have sucked all the air out of the room,there is no room or money available for any of the rare conservatives in politics to even get started,so we will never know,will we? Trump shows up and starts claiming to be a conservative,so he gets all the support. If you believe that life-long trust fund child from NYC and NJ who is friends with the Clinton's is a conservative,I've got a couple of brides I want to sell you.
#43. To: sneakypete (#31) Trump has been using his own money until recently. Anyone who would like to run has had opportunity to do so. Do you honestly think the GOP would support an actual conservative?
#48. To: Don (#43) Trump has been using his own money until recently. No,he hasn't. Not a dime. He has bragged about being wealthy enough to finance his own campaign if he wants to,but has been running off of donor money so far.
Do you honestly think the GOP would support an actual conservative? I honestly believe the GOP would do everything in it's power to keep an actual conservative from running for president,including giving money to the Dim candidate and stabbing their own candidate in the back at every opportunity.
Replies to Comment # 48. The money thing isn't my understanding of the matter, but whatever. The DEMs and NEO-Repubs are the same animal. Yes, they would destroy a real threat to their control and power.
#53. To: sneakypete (#48) Trump has been using his own money until recently. No,he hasn't. Yes he has dummy. You lie a lot. You can't document your lies though.
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