Actually you are inferring it. Trump might have implied it, but I think he was just responding to Jeb's claim that "Bush kept us safe". I know Jeb meant "after 9/11" but he didn't say that. Factually Trump is correct, but in fairness I don't think any new president could have prevented it.
It’s not what you and I think Trump meant by it, it is what the masses out there think he meant. And what his opponents on the left and right are going to say he meant by it.
That is the interpretation that is going to get publicized far and wide. He’ll be painted as too politically stupid to be in office. His opponents will be getting all the mileage they can out of it.
Trump was just plain stupid to make such a gaff. Even if he didn’t mean for it to be construed like it has, didn’t he know how it would be taken?
Bush withheld from the public 28 pages from the 9/11 report.
The government appeared to have plenty of clues in the run up to 9/11. If those terrorists came up on radar screens, the United States should have deported them on national security grounds.
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http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/30/opinion/bergen-nsa-surveillance-september-11/
“Here is a representative sampling of the CIA threat reporting that was distributed to Bush administration officials during the spring and summer of 2001:
— CIA, “Bin Ladin Planning Multiple Operations,” April 20
— CIA, “Bin Ladin Attacks May Be Imminent,” June 23
— CIA, “Planning for Bin Ladin Attacks Continues, Despite Delays,” July 2
— CIA, “Threat of Impending al Qaeda Attack to Continue Indefinitely,” August 3
The failure to respond adequately to these warnings was a policy failure by the Bush administration, not an intelligence failure by the U.S. intelligence community.
Federal judges at odds over NSA data collection “