(This is the only way Jeb can get attention. I think your brother is big enough to stand up for himself.)

Jeb Bush slams Trump for saying 9/11 came during George W. Bush’s ‘reign’
(Well wasn’t he the president and wasn’t he in charge.  So what is the big deal?)

(Let’s establish the facts – remember the Bush’s were tied to the hip with the Saudi regime – just like  Obama – especially, Bush I.  The pilots who flew that plane into the buildings were Saudi citizens.  These pilots trained in Florida and only trained on how to actually fly the plane – they were  not  interested in taking off or landing according to the press releases. Now shouldn’t that have blown up someone’s skirt?  After the tragedy Bush II had all of the Saudi officials flown out of the country immediately.  Now why was that?)

Jeb Bush fired back Friday at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump knocked former president George W. Bush over the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that brought down the World Trade Center.

Trump’s comments came after Bloomberg’s Stephanie Ruhle asked him if he would be capable of comforting the nation in the event of a mass catastrophe like the 9/11 attacks or the 2012 shooting in Newtown, Conn.

“I think I have a bigger heart than all of them,” Trump told Ruhle in response. “I think I’m much more competent than all of them. I mean, say what you want, the World Trade Center came down during his time.”

Ruhle pushed back, saying, “Hold on, you can’t blame George Bush for that.”  (Ruhle only stated this to get a better rag than she had received so far to stir the pot.)

“He was president, okay? Blame him or don’t blame him, but he was president,” Trump said. “The World Trade Center came down during his reign.”

Jeb Bush struck back over social media, calling Trump’s comments “pathetic.”

Bush and Trump have tangled before over the former president’s record.

“Your brother and your brother’s administration gave us Barack Obama, because it was such a disaster those last three months that Abraham Lincoln couldn’t have been elected,” Trump told the former Florida governor at the CNN debate in September.

“You know what? as it relates to my brother, there’s one thing I know for sure. He kept us safe,” Bush replied.

Later, he tweeted a photo of his brother standing at Ground Zero.

The business mogul has been critical of the former president in the past, publicly questioning his intelligence and his leadership on the war in Iraq. “He just didn’t seem smart. Does that make sense to you? He didn’t seem smart,” Trump told The Post in August. “I’d watch him in interviews and I’d look at people and ask, ‘Do you think he understands the question?’ I mean, he didn’t seem like he had it.”

Trump was scheduled to appear at a campaign event in Massachusetts Friday evening.

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Following is the same subject from Megan Kelly on Fox News and her ragging on Trump; but, what a nice surprise when Katrina Pierson came aboard to answer Charles’ ragging and straightened Megan’s thinking- for the moment – at least it was fair and balanced.

So, Jeb Bush has come out and called that pathetic saying we were attack and my brother kept us safe. And the former Bush White House Press Secretary has come out and said, “Trump sounds like a trooper. Would he also blame Pearl Harbor on FDR since FDR was responsible or was President at that time? Your thoughts.

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, SYNDICATED COLUMNIST: Well, if you just look at this as a matter of campaign technique, you have to say that Trump is a reality show genius. His campaign is an ongoing reality show. The most successful in the history of television.

But he understands the secret. You have to keep advancing the story. The story doesn’t advance for a couple of days and nobody is going to tune in. So, he’s always throwing out something every couple of days that gets him in the news. I saw that quote was on the home page of the New York Times.

There’s nothing on the Kasich economic plan, there’s nothing on the Rubio energy plan. He’s all about this is gets us a grotesque remark, he tossed in at the last-minute of the 35-minute interview. And look at the success he’s had. He’s advancing the story.

And in the same way, then in his reality show, if he didn’t fire a new batch of people every week, nobody would tune in. So, as a matter of technique it’s genius, but it has a second effect, as well. And that is he’s very successfully been able to bake other candidates into reacting and then monopolizing the conversation.

So, he successfully got Jeb to respond on an issue which I’m sure he didn’t want to respond. It takes him off of his game. The argument is now on the ground that Trump had chosen. And he has succeeded.

So, whatever you think of the substance of it, and I don’t think a lot about the substance of it, look at the effect it’s had. And then it helps explain one of the reasons why he’s number one in the polls and he’s remained out there. He’s a genius at stringing out the story and having everybody tune into his reality show.

KELLY: So, you think it’s all calculated and that was a calculated move as opposed to an off-the-cuff remark on the subject of George W. Bush and 9/11?

KRAUTHAMMER: Well, that is a pretty heavy off-the-cuff remark. I can’t tell you whether that was calculated and had to be dropped today. Clearly, it’s something he’s thought about. Clearly, he’s a guy who knows what he’s saying.

He knows that he’s been able to say all kinds of outrageous stuff; John McCain is no hero, et cetera. And not only get away with it but watch his numbers rise.

I think it’s not so much that people admire a guy who says what’s on his mind. But there’s kind of secret admiration for a guy who says what’s on his mind no matter how outrageous and gets away with it. I think that’s the key…

(CROSSTALK)

KELLY: But what of that, OK, but on the substance of the accusation here, the suggestion that George W. Bush is, I mean, clearly the implication is that is to blame. That he was the President and he should have kept us and he didn’t. I mean, do you think any of these Republicans will care about that?

KRAUTHAMMER: Well, I think you just turn the question around and say, well, Mr. Trump, what would you have done differently? Let’s hear what he says.

KELLY: Well, we’ll bring that up in our next — in ’08. I’ll tell it to Chris Wallace. Great to see you, Charles.

KRAUTHAMMER: My pleasure.

KELLY: OK. For more on this now we turn to national Tea Party leader and former Texas Congressional candidate Katrina Pierson. Good to see you, Kat.

So, what of that, I mean, what do you make of that? What would Donald Trump have done differently given the accusations he seems to be leveling?

KATRINA PIERSON, TEA PARTY LEADERSHIP FUND SPOKESPERSON: Well, good to see you, Megyn. But here’s the thing. People are acting like Donald Trump said George Bush flew the plane himself. He didn’t say that. He simply stated the fact that George Bush was President and, therefore, the buck stops with him.

Donald Trump is a global business leader. And he understands the importance of leadership. And these are the same Republicans, Megyn, that are complaining that Barack Obama isn’t taking responsibility for the economy that he inherited from George Bush.

Here’s what would have been different under Donald Trump. Very simple. Immigration enforcement where he would have secured the borders, the wall would have been built. Many of these hijackers came to this country on a student visa, on a tourist visa on business visas that were never tracked.

So, yes, Donald Trump would have had some substance to this issue.

KELLY: And you don’t put any of that on Bill Clinton? Donald Trump, in your view, doesn’t put any of that on Bill Clinton. That’s all on George W. Bush?

PIERSON: Well, he wasn’t being asked about Bill Clinton. I think it’s safe to say that presidents all the way back to Reagan bear some responsibility as to how open our sovereign nation has been to terrorists. But that’s not what Mr. Trump was asked.

KELLY: Do you think there’s anything distasteful about an attempt to– it sounds like to politicize 9/11? You know, he got in trouble before for saying John McCain was captured, I prefer people who weren’t captured. And now he says, George W. Bush was the President for 9/11.  (Rag, Rag, and more rag.  Why was all of those people brought into the story – did they have something to do with 9/11?)

And these are things that the military and the terrorist attacking, you know, a lot of people hold those in violet, and don’t want to hear those kinds of accusations thrown about. Even casualty. Especially casualty.  (Word should have been casually.)

PIERSON: Well, I think you’ve touched on something that has been the sensation of Donald Trump. Sometimes you have to tell people what they don’t want to hear. And he’s been very good at that. And that’s why he’s been up in the polls.

This wasn’t some contrived statement. Everyone in the media knows you don’t drop a headline on a Friday. That’s just not how it works.

KELLY: Kat, good to see you.

PIERSON: Thank you, Megyn.

KELLY: Thanks for being here.

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