'Very serious stuff': Trump wants 28 classified pages from 9/11 report released as he predicts they will focus on 'Saudi Arabia's role' in the terror attacks

  • Donald Trump told 'Fox & Friends' that 28 classified pages in the 9/11 Commission's final report should have been released 'long ago'
  • The section reportedly covers Saudi Arabia's contact with the terror hijackers and may include clues about financial support  
  • Trump has criticized President George W. Bush for invading Iraq in the wake of the attacks, saying it destabilized the Middle East
  • 'It wasn’t the Iraqis that knocked down the World Trade Center,' Trump said in February. 'We went after Iraq, we decimated the country – Iran’s taking over, okay?'
  • For more of the latest on Donald Trump visit www.dailymail.co.uk/trump

Donald Trump said Tuesday that he believes 28 classified pages from the 9/11 Commission's report on the 2001 terror attacks should be released to the public, adding fuel to an already red-hot debate over what might be buried in the document's secret sections.

'I think we should have seen it a long time ago,' the Republican presidential front-runner said on 'Fox & Friends.'

Trump has long been in the corner of transparency advocates who have argued for the federal government to declassify the pages, which are rumored to contain smoking-gun evidence of complicity on the part of Saudi Arabia. 

'I think I know what it's going to say,' Trump said Tuesday as voters headed to the polls in his home state of New York. 'It's going to be very, very profound, having to do with Saudi Arabia and Saudi Arabia's role on the World Trade Center, and the attack.'

OPEN THE BOOKS: Donald Trump wants the 28 classified pages from the 9/11 Commission's final report unsealed and released to the public

OPEN THE BOOKS: Donald Trump wants the 28 classified pages from the 9/11 Commission's final report unsealed and released to the public

'VERY SERIOUS STUFF': The Republican presidential front-runner believes the U.S. government knows Saudi Arabian officials had a hand in planning or financing the deadly 2001 terror attacks

'VERY SERIOUS STUFF': The Republican presidential front-runner believes the U.S. government knows Saudi Arabian officials had a hand in planning or financing the deadly 2001 terror attacks

Trump has long been critical of President George W. Bush's post-9/11 invasion of Iraq, and suggested the report's 28 classified pages could ultimately prove the second Iraq War was a red-herring military operation. 

'That's very serious stuff,' Trump told Fox News co-host Brian Kilmeade. 'And you know, I've said it for a long time. We attacked Iraq. And frankly by attacking Iraq – they were not the ones who knocked down the World Trade Center.'

'Now I've been saying that for a long time. Let's see what the papers say. ... I think they're going to be finally, at least in some form, released.'

Pointing to the possibility that the Saudi royal family may have financially or logistically helped the 9/11 hijackers, Trump said: 'You know, It's sort of nice to know who your friends are, and perhaps who your enemies are.'

'But you're going to see some very revealing things released in those papers and I look forward to reading them.'

During a February campaign rally in Bluffton, South Carolina, Trump said using 9/11 as a pretext to invade Iraq ultimately destabilized the Middle East and gave Iran and its proxies an opening to seize the country's oil fields when the Obama administration withdrew American troops later.

'I WAS DOWN THERE AT 7-11': Trump mixed up his numbers on Monday night during a campaign rally and suggested that the 9/11 terror attacks had something to do with the convenience store chain

'I WAS DOWN THERE AT 7-11': Trump mixed up his numbers on Monday night during a campaign rally and suggested that the 9/11 terror attacks had something to do with the convenience store chain

'It wasn’t the Iraqis that knocked down the World Trade Center,' Trump said then. 'We went after Iraq, we decimated the country – Iran’s taking over, okay?'

'But it wasn’t the Iraqis. You will find out who really knocked down the World Trade Center, because they have papers in there that are very secret,. You may find it’s the Saudis, okay? But you will find out.'

Saudi foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir warned members of Congress last month that if they pass a bill allowing 9/11 victims and their families to sue complicit foreign governments, the Middle Eastern kingdom will sell off billions of dollars worth of American assets in a crippling counter-move. 

Trump made an embarrassing gaffe Monday night that could hurt his 9/11 street cred on issues related to the 2001 attacks on New York City and the Pentagon, calling it '7-11' during a campaign rally in Buffalo, New York.

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