{"id":182331,"date":"2015-10-16T20:25:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T01:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/16\/finally-someone-goes-there\/"},"modified":"2015-10-16T20:25:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T01:25:00","slug":"finally-someone-goes-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/16\/finally-someone-goes-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, Someone Goes There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rather it is &#8220;The Donald&#8221; who maked the observation that that has this far eluded the rest of the Presidential candidates, that <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/trump-911-attack-bush\">9\/11 happened under Bush&#8217;s watch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump implied that George W. Bush bore some responsibility for the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in a Friday interview with Bloomberg.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cHe was President,\u201d Trump said. \u201cBlame him, or don\u2019t blame him, but he was President. The World Trade Center came down during his reign.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Trump asserted that unlike the George W. Bush, he would be \u201ca leader\u201d who could command the United States during national crises.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cI think I\u2019m much more competent than all of them,\u201d Trump said, referring to George W. Bush and President Barack Obama.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cSay what you want, the World Trade Center came down during his time,\u201d Trump told Bloomberg.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush took to Twitter to criticize his GOP presidential rival for the remarks, writing that his brother \u201ckept us safe.\u201d <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>911, the Anthrax attacks, anti-abortion terrorists, Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, DC Sniper, LAX attack on El Al, Jewish Federation of Seattle, Jewish Federation of Freemont, and that&#8217;s just limiting myself to attacks in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kept us safe,&#8221; my ass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather it is &#8220;The Donald&#8221; who maked the observation that that has this far eluded the rest of the Presidential candidates, that 9\/11 happened under Bush&#8217;s watch: Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump implied that George W. Bush bore some responsibility for the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in a Friday interview &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[963,1011,977,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-history","category-presidential-campaign","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182331"}],"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=182331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}