Trump snarked childishly that Bush did not keep us safe on 9/11.
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It is plainly obvious he did not keep us safe or airplanes would not have been used to kill 3000 people in the US.
I don’t think Bush could have prevented it.
But he did leave too many Clinton holdovers in place.
He did REDUCE border and interior enforcement AFTER 9/11.
The latter was unforgivable from this voters perspective.
Any patriotic President would have secured the border FIRST before beginning foreign adventures.
You can’t have national security with open borders.
I would agree that he left too many Clinton people in place, part of the rove Bush strategy. I’ve written that a lot. But Trump went a helluva lot further than that, and from the left. Trump never had the presence of mind to say that too many Clintonistas were held over.
Besides, not likely that he could have undone the Gorelick rule about the CIA and FBI in time anyway. Again, the discussion you and I are having is way above the level of what Trump was spouting off about.