Trump: George W. Bush Didn’t Keep us Safe on 9/11, Lied Over WMDs in Lead Up to Iraq War

Donald Trump picked a fight with Jeb Bush early on in the GOP debate tonight and the Republican frontrunner ended up getting repeatedly booed by the debate audience.

Trump got booed when he first said that Bush is wrong about the Middle East. He dismissed the booing as coming from “Jeb’s special interests and lobbyists” and was repeatedly booed again.

And on top of that, he got yet another big boo when he ridiculed South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham for his poll numbers. This debate is taking place in South Carolina. Trump’s response? “I only tell the truth, lobbyists.”

Bush smacked down Trump as someone who “gets his foreign policy from the shows,” but that didn’t get nearly as heated as minutes later, when moderator John Dickerson asked Trump if he still believes George W. Bush should be impeached.

Trump dodged, and got booed again as he talked about the lack of WMDs in Iraq. Bush proceeded to go off on Trump’s “blood sport” of lobbing insults and cried, “I’m sick and tired of him going after my family!”

He said, “While Trump was building a reality show, my brother built a security apparatus to keep us safe.”

Trump brought up 9/11 and how it happened under George Bush’s watch. Take a wild guess what happened. (He got booed again.)

Watch above, via CBS.

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