Jeb Bush is quarreling with Donald Trump over his brother's role in 9/11


Republican presidential hopefuls Donald Trump and former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-Fla.) are at it again. In an interview with Bloomberg on Friday, Trump took shots at Bush's brother, former President George W. Bush, implying he was to blame for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
"When you talk about George Bush, I mean, say what you want, the World Trade Center came down during his time," Trump said. "He was president, okay?...Blame him, or don't blame him, but he was president. The World Trade Center came down during his reign."
Like all mature adults, Jeb Bush and Trump moved their beef to Twitter.
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Trump saw Bush's angry tweet and raised him three.
By the end, Trump seemed bored with insulting the former president, and moved onto attacking Jeb more squarely.
Looks like these two could stand to work more on finding nice things to say.
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Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.
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