{"id":181905,"date":"2016-02-15T19:37:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T00:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/02\/15\/trump-goes-there\/"},"modified":"2016-02-15T19:37:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T00:37:00","slug":"trump-goes-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/02\/15\/trump-goes-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Goes There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the last Republican Presidential debate, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/02\/trump-9-11-debate-219273\">Donald Trump noted that George W. Bush was President on 911, and that he lied about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Jeb Bush\u2019s campaign thinks George W. Bush is its not-so-secret weapon in next Saturday\u2019s pivotal primary. Donald Trump couldn\u2019t care less.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Holding a 20-point lead in the state over his nearest rival with a week to go, Trump blasted the former president for the national security record his brother\u2019s campaign plans to tout, blaming him during a GOP debate Saturday night not just for the Iraq War but also for the 9\/11 terrorist attacks.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThe World Trade Center came down during your brother\u2019s reign. Remember that,&#8221; Trump said to the former Florida governor, prompting a long, contentious back-and-forth.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In fact, Trump has blamed George W. Bush for 9\/11 many times before, just never on a debate stage before a television audience of millions. It started when moderator John Dickerson asked him about a past statement in which he suggested that the 43rd president should have been impeached for lying about Iraq\u2019s alleged weapons of mass destruction in order to justify going to war. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While this position may not be popular with mainstream Republicans, with a 20 point lead in South Carolina, I don&#8217;t think that this will hurt his campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last Republican Presidential debate, Donald Trump noted that George W. Bush was President on 911, and that he lied about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction: Jeb Bush\u2019s campaign thinks George W. Bush is its not-so-secret weapon in next Saturday\u2019s pivotal primary. Donald Trump couldn\u2019t care less.Holding a 20-point lead in the state over &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1182,1011,1063,977,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-george-w-bush","category-history","category-iraq","category-presidential-campaign","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}