Tapper To Bush: You Blame Hillary For Benghazi, But Not Your Brother For 9/11
Jake Tapper put it to Jeb Bush Sunday morning on CNN.
Click here for reuse options!“My brother responded to a crisis and united the country, he organized our country and he kept us safe,” the GOP hopeful told Tapper. “And there’s no denying that. And the great majority of Americans believe that. And I don’t know why he keeps bringing this up.”
Tapper wondered if Bush’s loyalty to his brother “might be in some ways a political or policy liability blinding you to mistakes he made.”
“It’s what you do after that matters,” Bush insisted. “Does anybody actually blame my brother for the attacks on 9/11? If they do, they’re totally marginalized in our society. It’s what he did afterwards that mattered, and I’m proud of him. And so are a bunch of other people.”
“Obviously al Qaeda was responsible for the terrorist attacks of 9/11,” the CNN host pressed. “But how do you respond to critics who ask if your brother and his administration bear no responsibility at all, how do you then make the jump that President Obama and Secretary Clinton are responsible for what happened at Benghazi?”
Bush stammered in response: “Well, I — the question on Benghazi, which we will now finally get the truth to, is was the place secure? They had a responsibility at the Department of State to have proper security.”
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22 responses to Tapper To Bush: You Blame Hillary For Benghazi, But Not Your Brother For 9/11
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Larry Schmitt October 18th, 2015 at 14:15
“…Benghazi, which we will now finally get the truth to…” So the previous 37 investigations didn’t turn up anything, but somehow the next one magically will. That’s what I like so much about the republicans, they’re grounded in reality.
The Original Just Me October 18th, 2015 at 16:05
No finished findings or conclusions means she is guilty. They just can’t figure what she is guilty of.
jybarz October 18th, 2015 at 14:36
Yeah, because the lives of 4 mattered more than the 2,900+ who died on 9/11.
Fcking Idiot!
Repukes are bloody idiots and got nothing better to do than hyping up Bullsh!t fabricated scandals.
William October 18th, 2015 at 14:37
It’s all about timing. If there was anything to be found, they would have found it by now.
rg9rts October 18th, 2015 at 15:39
OJM has joined the group
The Original Just Me October 18th, 2015 at 16:02
Who Me, What, Where, When, Am I here or there ?
rg9rts October 18th, 2015 at 16:06
William is one of us too…a part timer
rg9rts October 18th, 2015 at 16:07
we are all over …whatthe 46 too
rg9rts October 18th, 2015 at 17:58
have to keep current…you know we only deal in good like minded people
The Original Just Me October 18th, 2015 at 16:01
No answer or conclusion, that is their findings. But keep waiting, something might turn up.
CandideThirtythree October 18th, 2015 at 14:47
More proof that all republicans have selective amnesia
The Original Just Me October 18th, 2015 at 15:59
It is hard to keep track of what happened when your fellow Republicans keep rewriting history and forget to tell you what’ the new version of history is.
ExPFCWintergreen October 18th, 2015 at 15:11
I see, so they had a responsibility to ensure that the consulate in Benghazi was secure. But his brother, who’d repeatedly been alerted to the threat UBL posed, didn’t have a responsibility to ensure that the country was secure. Uh, yeah, that makes sense……..
Budda October 19th, 2015 at 08:40
and it wasn’t even the consulate that was attacked but rather a leased compound used to board security details.
rg9rts October 18th, 2015 at 15:38
But bbbut bbuttt he’s my brother……the smart one
Suzanne McFly October 18th, 2015 at 15:57
https://youtu.be/gBzJGckMYO4
Obewon October 18th, 2015 at 18:06
‘We had no domestic terror attacks under George W. Bush’s watch’-2007 Giulianni, Rice et al. “And the great majority of Americans believe that”-B/S.
238 Presidential scholars polled annually since 1982: G.W. “Bush is the worst president of the modern era, bottom five of all time.” http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/07/01/105514/scholars-bush-worst-president/
maggie October 19th, 2015 at 01:51
and the 14 embassies bombed under your bother?
fahvel October 19th, 2015 at 05:20
past tense stuff – when am I going to read about the anger about the usa bombing a MSF hospital with really smart bombs and stuff – only killed some dozen doctors and a bunch of patients?
Robert Smithson October 19th, 2015 at 19:59
Hillary was bombarded numerous times about upgrading the security situation in Benghazi and she did nothing. Then afterwards, she tried to blame some stupid video for the attack when she and Obama knew all along it was a planned terrorist attack.
tracey marie October 19th, 2015 at 20:07
You fkin lie so easily, this was a consulate operated by the CIA.
arc99 October 19th, 2015 at 20:27
when you get as outraged about the deaths on 9/11/2001, let us know
Until then please spare us the hypocritical right wing bullsh*t where the deaths of 4 people are cause for hearings and resignations while the deaths of 3,000 are a time to come together as Americans.
I seriously doubt that you were in the briefing rooms with the President and the secretary of state, so please stop pretending you have any clue about what they knew. Delusional talk radio conspiracy theories are not facts. When will you right wingers demonstrate a grasp of that very basic concept?