Posted on 10/19/2015 12:16:45 PM PDT by jimbo123
In 2000, 19 months before Sept. 11, 2001, Donald Trump wrote extensively of the terrorism threat the United States was facing.
Trump, who at the time was considering a presidential bid on the Reform Party ticket, went so far as to say that an attack on a major U.S. city was not just a probability, but an inevitability.
“I really am convinced we’re in danger of the sort of terrorist attacks that will make the bombing of the Trade Center look like kids playing with firecrackers,” wrote Trump in his 2000 book, The America We Deserve. “No sensible analyst rejects this possibility, and plenty of them, like me, are not wondering if but when it will happen.”
Trump even mentions Osama Bin Laden by name, in a criticism of an American foreign policy that too quickly jumps from one crisis to the next.
“One day we’re told that a shadowy figure with no fixed address named Osama bin-Laden is public enemy number one, and U.S. jetfighters lay waste to his camp in Afghanistan,” The Donald wrote. “He escapes back under some rock, and a few news cycles later it’s on to a new enemy and new crisis.”
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Four years before The Apprentice ever aired, Trump devoted an entire section of his book to keeping America safe from terrorism, arguing our ignorance of the threats we faced from terrorism was the biggest threat to national security.
Trump predicted a major attack on an American city that would involved weapons of mass destruction, writing,”Yet it’s time to get down to the hard business of preparing for what I believe is the real possibility that somewhere, sometime, a weapon of mass destruction will be carried into a major American city and detonated.”
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Did he hammer Democrats for politicizing the intelligence business, undermining military readiness and playing social engineer with America?
I was not aware of these writings.
“I really am convinced we’re in danger of the sort of terrorist attacks that will make the bombing of the Trade Center look like kids playing with firecrackers,” wrote Trump in his 2000 book
Holy crap.
Thanks Mr. Trump!!
I have a group of friends who were calling for the New Crusades after the first bombing .
we couldbt get a publisher...not enough ready cash
If this can be verified it could be game over for Jeb Bush.
Wow! I am sure a lot of people would have viewed that as hype at the time.
Maybe people should start listening to him.
If Trump considered it inevitable then how can he now say he could have prevented it?
On the morning of 9/11/2001, there was a big breakfast that was going to be held in a restaurant atop one of the Twin Towers. It was on the topic of an airliner crashing into a skyscraper.
That thought freaked me out.
I also specifically remember the memo of 6 August and what that did to ticom.
They knew, but they didn’t know how or when. Wasn’t Bin Laden’s principal opponent, Shah Massoud, was killed just prior to the attack.
We never have learned who shorted airline stocks that day, though.
He will be the law and order president.
Some people can’t. They’ve moved the “HE’S A LEFTIST” furniture in, and they don’t have any space left for common sense.
When you think about it - he is also protecting his NY family, his home, his holdings, besides our way of life. He is fully invested in one of the biggest targets in the world.
And now he has the courage and gumption to add his personal safety - even when outside NY - to the risk.
This is a big deal.
“One day we’re told that a shadowy figure with no fixed address named Osama bin-Laden is public enemy number one, and U.S. jetfighters lay waste to his camp in Afghanistan,” The Donald wrote. “He escapes back under some rock, and a few news cycles later it’s on to a new enemy and new crisis.”
THAT in a nutshell is the whole neocon shell game to maintain a perpetual state of war, anywhere in the world.
Prescient. Damn right Trump is in it to win it.
“If Trump considered it inevitable then how can he now say he could have prevented it?”
Easy. He wasn’t president then. He’s saying if he had been president things would have been different with immigration.
Did you know some of the 9/11 hijackers got their pilot’s license in Florida when Jeb was Gov there?
Shah Massod was killed three days before 9/11 by Camera bomb/Suicide-Camera-bomb in Afghanistan.
dare I say that he holds that “answer”.....in the same Top Hat he uses to house the White Rabbits
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