First, absence of evidence in not evidence of absence of Trump’s disagreeing with entering Iraq. Plenty of conservatives and libertarians were opposed to entry into Iraq. And there was no reason for anyone to listen to a real estate guy in 2002 or 2003 saying to his associates that he opposed entering the war.
The Bush whitehouse always discounted any find of leftover materiel from prior to a certain date....I don’t recall exactly if it was the first Iraq war or what.
We always focused on Saddam’s capability for quick production, and many of us were focused on the ability with the recipe to make small quantities for terrorist delivery.
Again, the bush whitehouse refused to use even that. The bush whitehouse refused to defend itself.
That is NOT Donald Trump’s fault. In fact, it wasn’t too long before the bush whitehouse itself was saying there were no WMDs, the Congress was saying it, investigations were saying it, the media was saying it, Obama was saying it, and they used it to absolutely demolish the republicans in the campaign of 2008.
Again, that is not Donald Trump’s fault.
To repeat, absence of evidence in not evidence of absence of Trump’s disagreeing with entering Iraq.
Has nothing to do with the fact that we did find WMD.
And that the leftist talking points being tossed around are BS.
We did, indeed, find WMD.
That's true, but Trump kind of has himself to blame for that given his September 2015 debate statement that he could find "25 stories" showing that he was against the invasion.
The other issue is that the quotes from his 2000 book, which are the only pre-invasion statements anyone has found, do suggest he would have favored it.
I think what likely happened here is the same thing that happened with the claim that he saw thousands of Arabs celebrating in New Jersey on TV. He has a memory of seeing Arabs celebrating on TV - which I remember too, but conflated those West Bank images with some stories about celebrations in New Jersey.
Here, I think he is misremembering his post-invasion statements in 2003-2004 as being made prior to the invasion.
He needs to be more careful before making hyperbolic statements like "I could find 25 articles", but I suppose if he measured his words more carefully, he wouldn't be Trump.