I spent half of the debate trying to find the quote in Trump’s book “The America We Deserve” that was published in 2000 where he spoke of the terror threat.
I couldn’t find the quote where he seemed to warn about Bin Laden but he was very aware of the terror threat to the US and said our politicians only cared about getting elected or re- elected.
He said they didn’t want to talk about terrorism and they didn’t want to do anything to protect us including issuing visas with no restrictions and keeping up with the ones overstaying their visa.
He blamed the current administration (Clinton) and the ones running for office (Bush) for not paying attention and not wanting to do anything preemptive to protect us.
So I would say yes he does partly blame Bush for 9/11 and I would have to say he is correct.
If Trump, a businessman was aware of the threat and was warning about it, why didn’t our politicians?
The attacks of 9/11 on the WTC was the second attempt to bring down the Towers! During the early days of the first term of Billy-boy Clinton, the first attack was made, using trucks and bomb s in the trucks. Some people died, but many 100s were severely injured. And WHAT did Clinton do? He did NOTHING AT ALL and handed it off to the NYPD!
In 2000 Donald Trump wrote in HIS book, The America we Deserve
Consider Iraq. After each pounding from U.S . warplanes, Iraq has dusted itself off and gone right back to work developing a nuclear arsenal. Six years of tough talk and U.S. fireworks in Baghdad have done little to slow Iraq's crash program to become a nuclear power. They've got missiles capable of flying nine hundred kilometers-more than enough to reach Tel Aviv. They've got enriched uranium. All they need is the material for nuclear fission to complete the job, and, according to the Rumsfeld report, we don't even know for sure if they've laid their hands on that yet. That's what our last aerial assault on Iraq in 1999 was about. Saddam Hussein wouldn't let UN weapons inspectors examine certain sites where that material might be stored. The result when our bombing was over? We still don't know what Iraq is up to or whether it has the material to build nuclear weapons. I'm no warmonger. But the fact is, if we decide a strike against Iraq is necessary, it is madness not to carry the mission to its conclusion. When we don't, we have the worst of all worlds: Iraq remains a threat, and now has more incentive than ever to attack us.