In a dramatic highlight of the last Republican debate, Trump accused the Bush administration of deliberately deceiving the American public about the invasion. (“They lied. They said there were weapons of mass destruction. There were none.”) It was a potentially historic moment: a top Republican candidate for president attempts to lead his party into a frank reappraisal of the Bush-Cheney administration’s inherent honesty.
Here we are, one week later: “I’m not talking about lying. … Nobody really knows why we went into Iraq.”
Meanwhile, reporters continue to ask Trump supporters what the attraction is. And his fans say that he tells it like it is.