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Over A Year Before 9/11, Trump Wrote Of Terror Threat With Remarkable Clarity
Buzz Feed via American Thinker ^ | October 19, 2015 | Andrew Kaczynski, BuzzFeed News Reporter

Posted on 10/20/2015 6:49:24 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

Donald Trump has taken a lot of heat for his comments about George W. Bush and 9/11, but it turns out that he wrote extensively about the inevitability of a major terror attack almost two years before the event, and even mentioned Osama bin Laden. Andrew Kaczynski writes in Buzzfeed:

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.


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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: andrewkaczynski; kaczucker; trump
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1 posted on 10/20/2015 6:49:24 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: hoosiermama; onyx; Jane Long; V K Lee; conservativejoy; RitaOK; Black Agnes; nopardons; ...

Ping


2 posted on 10/20/2015 6:50:03 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Trump: As long as you are going to be thinking anyway...think big.)
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To: All

Comments at source are interesting, to say the least.


3 posted on 10/20/2015 6:52:45 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Trump: As long as you are going to be thinking anyway...think big.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Amazing…and his warnings were totally ignored by then Pres. Clinton, then Pres. Bush #43, Congress, the Democrat media, and the conservative media.
The self-appointed “Smart People” are the last to see what is happening in the world, and that situation has not improved.


4 posted on 10/20/2015 6:54:48 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: RoosterRedux

But Trump did nothing to prevent the attack, so he is obviously not qualified to be president. /sarc


5 posted on 10/20/2015 6:55:26 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: RoosterRedux

Pretty impressive given that Trump did not have access to any classified intelligence.


6 posted on 10/20/2015 6:57:49 AM PDT by conservativejoy (We Can Elect Ted Cruz! Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God!)
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To: RoosterRedux

Wow.

Glad this was uncovered. Gives a whole new look to Trump’s comments.


7 posted on 10/20/2015 7:03:57 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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To: conservativejoy

Yep. He is demonstrating that he is a person of vision.


8 posted on 10/20/2015 7:08:19 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Trump: As long as you are going to be thinking anyway...think big.)
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To: sauropod
He should bring up the fact that president Bush allowed the Saudi’s to fly out of the country right after 9/11. We can see what Jebba has to say about that.
9 posted on 10/20/2015 7:13:46 AM PDT by peeps36 (Save The Tortoise And Kill The People)
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To: RoosterRedux

I am convinced that we will suffer another terror attack some time in the future. I also believe that if you have a dedicated individual, who has no fear of death, even his own, then there is nothing you can do to stop one from happening.

By me saying this now, whoever is president when it happens will be responsible. I will say “I warned you” and you did nothing to stop it.

Vote for me.


10 posted on 10/20/2015 7:14:47 AM PDT by jstaff
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To: Fresh Wind

“But Trump did nothing to prevent the attack, so he is obviously not qualified to be president. /sarc”

There was a poster here yesterday who said just that, and he wasn’t being sarcastic. TDS.


11 posted on 10/20/2015 7:26:41 AM PDT by odawg
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To: RoosterRedux

He wrote the book in 2000, but mentioned the World Trade Center Bombing? What am I missing?


12 posted on 10/20/2015 7:31:06 AM PDT by Hildy
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To: Hildy
“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.

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13 posted on 10/20/2015 7:31:55 AM PDT by Hildy
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To: Hildy

The first World Trade Center bombing occurred in 1993.


14 posted on 10/20/2015 7:34:21 AM PDT by tatown
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To: Hildy

He wrote the book in 2000, but mentioned the World Trade Center Bombing? What am I missing?

...

In the early 90’s there was a bombing, remember?


15 posted on 10/20/2015 7:35:01 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: conservativejoy

Pretty impressive given that Trump did not have access to any classified intelligence.

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He lived in New York, and reads a lot of newspapers.


16 posted on 10/20/2015 7:35:43 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: tatown

Got it, my bad. It’s hard to remember another world trade center bombing other than the big one, it is rarely talked about. But thank you.


17 posted on 10/20/2015 7:46:38 AM PDT by Hildy
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To: Moonman62

I also wonder who really wrote his book. And I like Trump, being from New York, I grew up with that name in the news all the time.


18 posted on 10/20/2015 7:47:39 AM PDT by Hildy
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To: RoosterRedux
Well that would explain why the 9/11 Trump blaming Bush story is fading in the lamestream media....

He keeps taking disruptor fire from everywhere...but the deflector shields are a hold’n Cap’n.

:-)

19 posted on 10/20/2015 7:49:46 AM PDT by JEDI4S (I don't mean to cause trouble...it just happens naturally through the Force!)
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To: conservativejoy
Pretty impressive given that Trump did not have access to any classified intelligence.

You're right...

20 posted on 10/20/2015 7:52:29 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats want gun legislation? Fine. Pass a Bill outlawing 'gun free' zones.)
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