# Trump's Republican primary campaign

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [September 3, 2015, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828 "2015-09-03T18:00:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2015, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/422 "2015-10-17T12:25:31Z")

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I’m surprised Trump isn’t coming right at 'em on this one. As I said in another thread last night:

> [@Jeb Bush campaign for POTUS thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeb-bush-campaign-for-potus-thread/722672/240):
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> Yeah, except for the ~3,000 dead on 9/11 - after _that_, he kept us safe.
> 
> Oh, and except for the victims of the anthrax attacks.  
> And the ~2000 dead due to Katrina.  
> And the ~4000 U.S. soldiers dead in Iraq.
> 
> OK, other than _that_, he kept us safe.

And not to mention, the infamous August 2001 PDB that Bush ignored was about the _sixth_ in a string of increasingly alarming PDBs that were warning about bin Laden and possible attacks on the U.S. By then, Al Gore would have had the whole fucking U.S. government on the lookout. That FBI boss who sat on the agent’s report of Middle Eastern guys taking flight lessons who didn’t seem interested in learning how to land - he wouldn’t have sat on it; it would have been his ticket to a promotion and a bonus.

Of course, Trump isn’t enough of a news junkie to know this. But still, he should have a wonk on staff who can feed him stuff like this.

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