Donald Trump gets away with saying many things that would bring down another candidate. His latest statement of this sort came in talking to Bloomberg News. The Daily Mail reported the interchange this way:
So Trump puts responsibility for 9-11 onto George W. Bush. The media loves it because they get to slam Bush, one of their favorite pastimes. Even better, hitting Bush for something like 9-11 won't help Trump with the Republican base. If you think about it, under Trump's logic, we should blame Franklin Roosevelt for World War II or Abraham Lincoln for the Civil War. (Maybe Trump does blame those presidents; who knows?)
Asked by Bloomberg Television anchor Stephanie Ruhle how Americans might trust him to keep them safe, the Republican presidential front-runner bristled at the mention of Bush's role as comforter-in-chief after 9/11, and President Barack Obama's similar position following the December 2012 school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.
'OK, I think I have a bigger heart than all of them,' he said. 'I think I'm much more competent than all of them.'
'When you talk about George Bush – I mean, say what you want, the World Trade Center came down during his time.'
Ruhle jumped in, saying, 'Hold on! You can't blame George Bush for that.'
'He was president, OK?' Trump responded. 'Don't blame him, or don't blame him, but he was president. The World Trade Center came down during his reign.'
'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.'
'Government has proven to be a disaster during the Obama administration,' Trump pivoted. 'What we need is a leader, we don't have a leader.'
So Trump puts responsibility for 9-11 onto George W. Bush. The media loves it because they get to slam Bush, one of their favorite pastimes. Even better, hitting Bush for something like 9-11 won't help Trump with the Republican base. If you think about it, under Trump's logic, we should blame Franklin Roosevelt for World War II or Abraham Lincoln for the Civil War. (Maybe Trump does blame those presidents; who knows?)
What has been missed in this interchange, however, is the fact that Trump obviously doesn't know what happened at Sandy Hook. That is where there was a mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school with many small children and some teachers being killed. Trump, however, is clearly talking about superstorm Sandy, not the shooting at Sandy Hook. The people in Newtown, Connecticut are not "still begging for help".
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