The "financial crisis" happened when democrats had the majority in the House and the Senate during Bush's 2nd term. The chairperson of the House Banking Committee, Barney Frank, had oversight responsibility for Fannie Mae and he told Americans that Fannie was solvent and doing fine when it was on the verge of collapse. Either Frank was a fool or he set up Fannie's collapse as the biggest October surprise in history. Strangely enough nobody in the investigative media ever asked him what the hell he was talking about. Let's hope the democrat party didn't place any other bureaucratic IED's for Trump.