Donald Trump: If I Had Been President 9/11 Attacks Would Not Have Happened (Video)

Donald Trump continues his attacks on Jeb Bush for claiming his brother “kept us safe.”

Continuing the increasingly hostile feud Donald Trump started with Jeb Bush on Friday, the GOP frontrunner on Sunday pointed to his stance on immigration and said he would have kept America safe had he been president on 9/11.

“I believe that if I were running things,” Trump told Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace, “I doubt that those people would have been in the country.”

“Question,” Wallace had asked Trump, “do you blame George W. Bush for 9/11?”

“Look,” Trump responded, “look, Jeb said we were safe with my brother. We were safe. Well, the World Trade Center just fell down. Now, am I trying to blame him?,” Trump asked, rhetorically. “I’m not blaming anybody. But the World Trade Center came down. So when he said, we were safe, that’s not safe. We lost 3,000 people, it was one of the greatest — probably the greatest catastrophe ever in this country if you think about it, right?”

“What would you have done?,” Wallace shot back.

“Well, I would have been much different, I must tell you,” Trump insisted. “Somebody said, well, it wouldn’t have been any different. Well, it would have been.”

“I am extremely, extremely tough on illegal immigration. I’m extremely tough on people coming into this country.  I believe that if I were running things, I doubt those families would have — I doubt that those people would have been in the country.”

“So there’s a good chance that those people would not have been in our country.”

“With that being said, I’m not blaming George Bush. But I don’t want Jeb Bush to say my brother kept us safe because September 11th was one of the worst days in the history of this country,” Trump concluded.

Indeed, on Friday, Bush again claimed that President George. W. Bush had “kept us safe,” ignoring the 3000 people who died on 9/11, and the subsequent attacks on the nation, including the Anthrax attacks, the shoe bomber, and other incidents, not to mention Bush’s response to Hurricane Katrina, the Iraq War, the false insistence of the existence of WMDs, the war in Afghanistan, and many, many other miscalculations and incompetent displays.

Later on Sunday, Trump continued the battle on Twitter:

Also today, Jeb Bush fired back at trump, albeit poorly. The younger Bush brother actually asked CNN’s Jake Tapper, “Does anybody actually blame my brother for the attacks on 9/11?“ 

Surprisingly, Trump’s attacks on the two Bush brothers has proven to be a big win for him, as many on the left also both hold George W. Bush responsible, to varying degrees, for the 9/11 attacks, and are incensed Jeb Bush thinks “W” is blameless and “kept us safe.”

 

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