Posted on 10/20/2015 8:42:34 AM PDT by Trumpinator
October 20, 2015
19 months before 9/11, Trump warned of terror attack on major city
By Thomas Lifson
ndrew 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.
“One day we’re told that a shadowy figure with no fixed address named Osama bin-Laden is public enemy number one, and U.S. jetfighters lay waste to his camp in Afghanistan,” The Donald wrote. “He escapes back under some rock, and a few news cycles later it’s on to a new enemy and new crisis.”
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Not really. Did Trump warn about the first WTC bombing? The warning signs were there. Hindsight is always perfect.
I know Patton was spinning in his grave over that mistake especially because a Republican did it.
So you can provide quotes...
Well, actually it would be your responsibility to show quotes. Because I saw Trump only mention Bush as responsible for 9/11. Of course, he doesn’t want to even associate Clinton’s name with 9/11. Total whitewash.
Trump was hardly alone in speculating that an American city would suffer a WMD attack. I note that 9/11 was not a WMD attack. although perhaps I am splitting hairs.
That is so lame. You didn't say that Trump didn't criticize Clinton, you said...
But Trump is adamant Bill Clinton never did anything wrong and is perfect.
You just said Trump didn't address it, then inferred from there. Where's your quote that shows Trump is "adamant"?
LOL/ And the best way to do that is to heap it all on Bush, and not even mention Clinton. Don't even remind people he could be connected to it. Whitewash.
Now I see your TDS has made you insane.
Seek help.
That's just it, Trump saw from hindsight of the first WTC attack that another would happen while Clinton and Bush (though Bush had much less time to act) did not.
It surprised me too. I just thought after I heard the interview on Andrew Wilkow’s show I would do a little due diligence
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