Code Trump: The Gallop Leftward Continues Lindsey Graham update!

Considering a Donald Trump - Bernie Sanders ticket?

C. Edmund Wright  "Donald Trump is now officially the Code Pink Republican. Or maybe he’s the Daily Kos or Huffington Post Republican. How about the Debbie Wasserman Schultz Republican? I think that fits. Heck, we all saw it and we all heard it. Trump went full left loon on George W. Bush and 9/11, sounding like the most impassioned truther from the left. Did Maxine Waters do his debate prep?

"Trump snarked childishly that Bush did not keep us safe on 9/11. Apparently Mr. Trump is not intellectually very curious about history. If he were, he would know that 9/11 was dreamed up, contemplated, financed, planned, and practiced on Bill Clinton's watch. This planning and practicing continued during the days of the hanging chads in Florida. 

"And the truth is that the single biggest failure by the American intelligence community was foisted onto the CIA and the FBI by Clinton appointee Jamie Gorelick with her infamous "wall of separation" between the two agencies. They had their hands tied behind their backs -- thanks to a Clinton appointee.
"Seriously Donald, is a cheap shot at lowly Jeb worth the worst kind of leftist revisionist history that will no doubt harm the Republican nominee in the fall? Apparently it is. This was simply shameful, not to mention contextually not true."

. . . "If we cede that Bush was at fault for 9/11 -- and Trump just absolutely proclaimed it -- we cannot win. If we cede that it was Bush, and not Fannie and Freddie and not the EPA and not Chris Dodds and Barney Frank (and Jamie Gorelick) at fault, then we cannot win. Trump did this a few months ago, stating categorically that "I don't think the Democrats would have done that." 

"Uh... earth to Donald -- it was the Democrats who did that. How did this escape this supposedly macro-economically gifted mind?"

UPDATE: Trump walks back attack on George Bush.  Rather late, don't you think? You can't unring a bell.

. . . "They lied," Trump said during the debate. "They said there were weapons of mass destruction, there were none. And they knew there were none."
On Sunday, Trump said George W. Bush "thought there were weapons of mass destruction, maybe, or maybe he didn't." . . .

The preparations for 9-11 that happened on Clinton's watch, Mr. Trump    

Keep in mind:  William Jefferson Clinton, . .  .   served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. 

"The idea for the attacks came from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who first presented it to Osama bin Laden in 1996. At that time, bin Laden and al-Qaeda were in a period of transition, having just relocated back to Afghanistan from Sudan. The 1998 African Embassy bombings and bin Laden's 1998 fatwā marked a turning point, as bin Laden became intent on attacking the United States.

In late 1998 or early 1999, bin Laden gave approval for Mohammed to go forward with organizing the plot. A series of meetings occurred in early 1999, involving Mohammed, bin Laden, and his deputy Mohammed Atef. Atef provided operational support for the plot, including target selections and helping arrange travel for the hijackers." . . . Emphases mine, TD

Update: BUSH LIED ABOUT WMDS? TRUMP’S OUTRAGEOUS ACCUSATION

. . . "What Trump said here is what we would expect from a left-wing blogger at the Daily Kos, not from the Republican front-runner for the White House.

""The idea that George W. Bush lied about WMDs is a ludicrous left-wing canard that should be on the ash-heap of history." . . .

Update: Lindsey Graham to “re-evaluate” his support for Donald Trump if he’s the nominee   "But after Saturday night’s debate, the Senator may be ready to defect."