WASHINGTON — Donald Trump clarified Sunday that he doesn’t blame George W. Bush for the 9/11 attacks — but still faults the former president for launching a war with Iraq.
“I am not blaming [President Bush], although . . . the CIA said there was a lot of information that something like that was going to happen. I’m not blaming anybody. It’s a tragedy,” Trump said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
During Saturday’s debate in South Carolina, Trump drew hearty boos for insisting the Bush administration “lied” about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, after being asked if he stood by comments he made in 2008, when he said it would be a “wonderful thing” if Bush were impeached for starting the war.
“[The war] was a disaster. No, not to be impeached, but . . . it was a mistake,” Trump said Sunday on NBC News.