Trump: My policies could have prevented 9/11

[Chicago1980]

Source: The Hill

Donald Trump argued Wednesday that his immigration policies could have prevented the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks by keeping the hijackers from entering America in the first place.

The GOP presidential nominee brought up the issue at a rally in Daytona Beach, Fla., while rehashing a series of controversies that plagued his primary bid, specifically when he said Muslims were "dancing on the streets and the rooftops" in New Jersey celebrating the attack on the World Trade Center.

"By the way, those people who knocked down the World Trade Center, most likely under the Trump policy wouldn't have been here to knock down the World Trade Center," he said.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/290317-trump-my-policies-could-have-prevented-9-11

[Blue Idaho]

1. The hits just kep on coming...

He is turning into the outrage of the hour candidate.

[SirBrockington]

4. Scorched Earth Campaign

[SirBrockington]

2. The one thing I give Donald Trump credit for is not letting the Bush family

and media do a revisionist job on the Bush years: The flags, the whole patriotic hubris, the "he kept America safe" narrative unchallenged etc. etc.

They would have limited excess to Jeb, only allowing fox news or friendly softball catie couric interviews while allowing their media to tear Hillary apart. At one point the narrative was Jeb was the "smart Bush." Trump destroyed that narrative..for the time being at least.

[forest444]

13. Hear, hear.

He probably also kept another one from happening by almost single-handedly derailing Jeb(!) and his 100 million-dollar "shock-and-awe" turkey of a campaign.

As awful as Trump is, he does deserve a kind word from the history books for keeping the Bush crime family away from the White House. No small accomplishment.

[olddad56]

33. Trump is no better than the Bush crime family. He is just a member of the Putin crime mob.

I think if Trump were elected, there would be some sort of 911 type false flag attack, or a civil war, or a war with another country, only waged on our soil. With Trump, any worst case scenario that you can imagine, could become a reality.

[forest444]

35. You're probably right.

Scary times, these.

[PufPuf23]

36. The media is doing a neater trick with Trump.

The valid criticism of the whitewash of Bush et al is now becoming a Trumpism.

[forest444]

3. One Supreme Court vote the other way could have as well.

Trump's harassment of Muslims wouldn't have saved a single life.

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Keep digging Donald,

you just POed half the world. BTW,it was a Saudi run operation.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Trump the Time Traveler

no boundaries are real to him

what a whackjob

[sinkingfeeling]

7. But could his policies have prevented the Civil War?

[brush]

38. Nah! The confederacy would've won as he sided with them.

[vkkv]

8. He's not living in the same time-continuum as everyone else...

That, or else he's just insane ??

[Aristus]

9. The 9/11 hijackers attended private, for-profit aviation schools.

So Trump is going to tell ambitious businessmen who they can and can't take money from?

That won't go over well with the money-grubbers...

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Fear, terror, fear, law&order, fear, immigration, fear, Iran, fear, bigotry, fear, racism, fear, ...

[BiminiTwisted]

11. On bright side it was nice to see a Republican propose cross-America high speed rail.

[Cryptoad]

12. That's the same logic as ,,,,

having a special rock in ur yard that keeps elephants at bay,,,,,,, I dont know how it does it but I have one and it works like a charm!

[Stonepounder]

23. We have a couple of Cavalier King Charles Spaniels that have

successfully kept the hippos and the T-Rex's out of our yard. We don't know how they do it either, bet we haven't had an incursion since we got them.

[dbackjon]

39. My dog successfully kept airplanes from landing

In my yard for years

[grubbs]

14. Yeah whatever

I am totally sure you were calling for a Muslim ban pre-911. Fuck off to hell, fart face.

[C_U_L8R]

15. He fancies himself a messiah

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Isn't that special.

[turbinetree]

16. He couldn't even run a business in Atlantic City he was the first one to file for bankruptcy

because he was stiffing everyone, and other factors.

Ask David Cay Johnson in his new book about this narcissistic bigot

[Moonwalk]

17. Typical con-man flimflam. Always make assertions that are impossible to disprove....

...I mean, I'm sure if we all take a carefully look at the facts we could disprove it, but you'd have to go back in time and keep things exactly as they were (airplanes without doors locking in pilots, etc.), create his Muslim ban, put it into effect and see if 9-11 would have been prevented to really prove him a liar.

Still, for such a loose cannon, his methodology is remarkably consistent. "I can fix it" is always the theme, and he never lets the faithful down in asserting that. In this case, he (1) implies that another 9-11 could happen and only his ban will save us (as it could have back then), and (2) that President Bill Clinton didn't have such a ban in place, and thus, the terrorists got in and were ready, and, thus, voters shouldn't make Hillary president, because it'll happen again. She won't put in place that all important ban that is the only way to prevent such a thing. Only he will.

We can scoff here all we like, but let's keep in mind that we're not his target audience. We should find way to easily disprove this (as much as it can be disproven) to those who are his target audience. The "maybe I'll vote for Trump..." voters who aren't locked into place, but are leaning that way.

[FighttheFuture]

18. Pfaughhh... Bush not being in office would have prevented 9/11!!! Talk about low-hanging fruit!

[trueblue2007]

19. tRump's policies could NOT have prevented the toilet from overflowing cuz too much tp filling it !!!

[trueblue2007]

20. Rump = snake oil salesman. Lying about the product just to make a few $$

[Journeyman]

21. Maybe. Maybe not. But the reality is, we don't want to live in that world of hate and fear . . .

better to have availed ourselves of the intelligence we had, and used better police tactics, to thwart terrorist attacks. Then, at least, we'd be defending a country and a set of policies we would be proud to defend.

[LiberalFighter]

22. So why didn't he run for President in 2000 when GW Bush was the nominee? nt

[SunSeeker]

24. If Trump's "policies" had indeed been enacted, the US as we know it would have ended.

We can either have a Constitutional democracy, or Trump's policies, but we can't have both.

[keithbvadu2]

25. Trump's 20/20 hindsight is impeccable.

[beachbum bob]

26. Insanity....

[ailsagirl]

31. dangerously delusional

[The Second Stone]

27. Insults, lies and stupidity are Trumps policies

and he was insulting, lying and stupid in 2001, so why didn't he prevent 9/11? Yeah, Trump is more insulting, lying and stupid than George W. Bush, but how would that stop 9/11? Even Rudy Giuliani, who was in New York at the time, while being insulting, lying and stupid couldn't stop 9/11. Is Trump so much more insulting, stupid and lying that it would shock and awe even terrorists?

[JohnnyLib2]

28. Waiting for fact checkers --

To find some contradictory thing he said before or after that terrible day.

[Doodley]

29. tens of millions believe Donald Trump is their savior. Why? Why do they believe his B.S?

[adigal]

37. He talks to their angers, resentment and fears

I know we aren't supposed to compare anyone to a certain German dictator in WWII, but this is almost like seeing it happen again, in real time. For those of us who always said, "How could that have happened in Germany," well, we have a similar thing here.

[Doodley]

40. But why are so many Americans incapable of critical thinking?

Ask them HOW they will actually make America great again, and they cannot say other than he is going to make jobs, make America stand up to the world, build a wall and make America safe again. Ask them HOW, and they cannot answer.

[unblock]

30. after the nuclear war he started over the cuban missile crisis, the twin towers never get built.

so, i suppose in a sense i agree with him.

[jmowreader]

32. Oh, they would have gotten in...

They would simply have told the immigration agent at the airport they had converted to Christianity..."welcome to America, Mr. Atta!"

[63splitwindow]

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