Donald Trump continues to find fault in Jeb Bush’s brother and former President George W. Bush for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Trump, appearing on CNN’s “New Day” Tuesday, suggested “You can’t say we were safe” prior to the attacks.
This all started because Jeb made the statement that under my brother, ‘We were safe.’ Well, if he would have qualified by saying after the attack, but he didn’t do that. So I said the other day…’How can you say you were safe under his brother when we just had the worst attack in the history of our country?’ You can’t say we were safe. You can say ‘Yes, we did well after but we also made mistakes there.
Trump then blasted George W. Bush’s decision to invade Iraq, explaining, “yes we were safe in a sense but… Iraq was a disastrous decision.” (RELATED: Trump Talks Possible Trump/Carson Ticket: ‘Stranger Things Have Happened’)
“You can’t say under my brother we were safe,” Trump insisted, because “we had the worst attack in the history of this country, I guess worse than Pearl Harbor. But that would be right up there. We had our worst attack.”
The GOP front-runner explained that if he was president instead of George W. Bush, he would have been stronger on immigration.
“If you look at what happened, number one, I would have had much stronger immigration policies,” Trump said. “I’m not saying I would have prevented it but I would have had a chance because I’m pretty good at this stuff.”
Trump then told host Alisyn Camerota:
George Tenet, the CIA Director knew in advance that there would be an attack. And he said so to the president and he said so to everybody else that would listen. And that came out. The other thing is, the FBI, the NSC, and the CIA were not talking to each other. These are the three main agencies. They weren’t talking to each other and they weren’t talking because they didn’t like each other and they had a lot of problems getting along. And that’s leadership. You have to, you know, you have to get your three main agencies to talk to each other. They had a lot of information that if it could have been correlated, it would have been very, very helpful.
“You know, as President Truman said, ‘The buck stops here.’ Whether you like it or not, Truman… would have said the buck stops here,” Trump claimed.