Donald Trump is now trying to blunt that rebuke by distorting the truth about the hijackers and the Osama bin Ladenera … Blaming George W. Bush for the 9/11 attacks is like blaming PresidentObamafor the recession that followed the 2008 financial panic, the rise of al Qaeda had been going on for years, and its first attack on U.S. soil was its bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993.