What on earth?
Donald Trump made a perfectly truthful and reasonable statement:
"When you talk about George Bush, I mean — say what you want — the World Trade Center came down during his time...
He was president, okay? Blame him or don’t blame him, but he was president. The World Trade Center came down during his reign."
In response, the full phalanx of official Republicandom has gone into frothing outrage mode:
WASHINGTON — Prominent Republicans are condemning GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump for suggesting that former President George W. Bush is partly to blame for the 9/11 terrorist attacks that happened during his administration.
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., former chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, called Trump's comments "a cheap shot."
"I think Donald Trump is totally wrong there," King said Friday during an interview on Fox News Radio. "...[T]o blame George Bush for what happened on September 11...shows a lack of knowledge and is too much of a cheap shot at the president."...
"I think it's ridiculous to suggest that (Bush) is responsible for it," Carson said during a brief campaign stop Friday night in Alexandria, Va....
Ari Fleischer, former White House press secretary during the Bush administration, told CNN that Trump sounds like a "truther," a term applied to conspiracy theorists who believe that the U.S. government was behind the 9/11 attacks.
"I just think he (Trump) belongs to an extraordinarily small faction of people who blame 9/11 on George Bush," Fleischer said....
"How pathetic for (Trump) to criticize the president for 9/11," Jeb Bush tweeted Friday. "We were attacked and my brother kept us safe."
Safe, except for those Twin Towers, of course.
What is the matter with these people?
Their denial of reality is approaching such levels of absurdity it's hard not to think a mighty crash in the wingnut psyche is near. And Trump, bless his shriveled little heart, is gleefully helping to bring it on.