Trump brings up 9-11 because he lived it. He was there. It is a visceral part of his being. Why the hell shouldn’t he bring up especially since Cruz laid out his ad hominem.
I’m afraid that as a New Yorker, it’s something we think about every day. You walk down the street, heading downtown, and you see the 1 World Trade Center and you remember the twin towers. Or you pass the armory and think about all the photos of “missing” people that were pinned to the bricks. It’ll take years and perhaps a new generation to get over it. I guess you could call it trauma.
“Why the hell shouldn’t he bring up especially since Cruz laid out his ad hominem”
Cruz was echoing something that Barry Goldwater said back in the 1964 race- that the country would be better off if NY and/or the Northeast was cut off and hauled out to sea.
Goldwater did it as a swipe at Northeastern liberalism but Cruz did it in a clumsy fashion that opened himself up to Trump’s powerful rejoinder that made it an insult to the good people of New York. You underestimate Trump’s rhetorical ability at your own peril.