I've noticed that ever since "El Chapo" the Mexican Drug Lord put a 100 million dollar price on Trump's head that Trump has been a lot more serious than before. Before this I think it was all fun and games for him. So, if by chance he ever gets nominated or becomes president (I don't think that can or will happen) he is going to be a lot more serious about the whole thing than the fun and games so far in entertaining us all. I've noticed he is a little more measured on what he says than before also.
Facing backlash, Trump dodges questions on 9/11 comments
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Facing backlash, Trump dodges questions on 9/11 comments
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- Trump regularly speaks with reporters at campaign events and often takes multiple questions in an impromptu manner
- When asked by CNN if he thought the attacks were George W. Bush's fault, Trump, after pausing to listen to the question, walked away
Washington (CNN)Donald
Trump, under fire for suggesting that George W. Bush shared in the
blame for the 9/11 terrorist attacks because they happened during his
presidency, repeatedly declined to engage with reporters about the
matter Friday night -- opting instead to continue a long-running feud
with Jeb Bush on Twitter afterwards.
Trump
regularly speaks with reporters at campaign events and often takes
multiple questions in an impromptu manner, making his silence Friday all
the more noticeable.
When
asked by CNN after a rally at a local high school here if he thought
the attacks were George W. Bush's fault, Trump, after pausing to listen
to the question, walked away.
Minutes
later, he again declined to say anything when asked to react to Bush's
response on Twitter, ignoring at least half a dozen questions on the
matter before driving away in his motorcade. He did respond to questions
about the crowd size at his campaign event Friday and why he was
campaigning in Massachusetts.
The controversy began Friday morning when Trump implied that the former president could share some blame for the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans, as he was in office at the time.
"When
you talk about George Bush, I mean, say what you want, the World Trade
Center came down during his time," Trump said on Bloomberg TV.
Bloomberg
anchor Stephanie Ruhle interjected, "Hold on, you can't blame George
Bush for that," before Trump stood by his comments.
"He
was president, OK? ... Blame him, or don't blame him, but he was
president. The World Trade Center came down during his reign," Trump
said.
Jeb Bush angrily responded Friday afternoon, calling the comment "pathetic."
"How
pathetic for @realdonaldtrump to criticize the president for 9/11. We
were attacked & my brother kept us safe," he tweeted.
On Friday evening after the
rally, Trump took to Twitter to double down on the comment, saying he
had merely been polite when Bush defended his brother during the most recent Republican debate.
"At
the debate you said your brother kept us safe- I wanted to be nice
& did not mention the WTC came down during his watch, 9/11," he
tweeted.
Trump wasn't finished.
"No
@JebBush, you're pathetic for saying nothing happened during your
brother's term when the World Trade Center was attacked and came down,"
Trump tweeted about 20 minutes later.
He soon added: ".@JebBush,
like it or not, our country needs more energy and spirit than you can
provide! #MakeAmericaGreatAgain"
Bush's White House Press
Secretary, Ari Fleischer, told CNN Friday that Trump sounds like a
"truther," slang for someone who believes the U.S. government was behind
the attacks.
"When Donald Trump
implies that since 9/11 took place on Bush's watch he is partially
responsible for it, he's starting to sound like a truther," he said.
"And after all, does Donald Trump also think since Pearl Harbor happened
on FDR's watch that FDR is responsible?"
"I
just think he belongs to an extraordinarily small faction of people who
blame 9/11 on George Bush. Interestingly, Hillary Clinton was one of
those people for short time," he added.
Appearing
in suburban Washington on Friday evening, Trump's presidential rival
Ben Carson distanced himself from Trump's remark -- though he said he
hadn't heard it.
"I would be surprised
if he blamed him for it. That wouldn't make much sense, would it?" he
said. "I think it's ridiculous to suggest that he's responsible for it."
Trump has previously taken aim at Bush, calling his presidency a "disaster." And he said last week that the decision to invade Afghanistan in 2001 was a "terrible mistake."
"We
made a terrible mistake getting involved there in the first place,"
Trump said. "It's a mess, it's a mess and at this point we probably have
to (leave U.S. troops in Afghanistan) because that thing will collapse
in about two seconds after they leave."
Trump's
comments to Bloomberg on Friday came in response to a question from
Ruhle about his "soft hand." She said the world had seen his strong
side, but Bush after 9/11 and President Barack Obama after the Sandy
Hook massacre both had to stand in front of America and show a different
side of them.
"I need to know that you will make us feel safe and you will make us feel proud," Ruhle said to Trump.
"I
think I have a bigger heart than all of them. I think I'm much more
competent than all of them," Trump said, before getting into the
criticism of Bush.
He didn't spare Obama -- though he did not seem to lay the blame for the school shooting at his feet in the same way as Bush.
"If
you look at Sandy Hook, those people are still begging for help. It's a
disaster, and it's a disaster all over the place," Trump said.
"What we need is a leader. We don't have a leader," he added.
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