“It did happen. I saw it. It was on television”.
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Jim Sues, executive director of the council’s chapter in New Jersey, said he’d like to see the original news reports on the “thousands” of Jersey City celebrants that Trump mentioned.
The controversial Republican candidate is against allowing entrance of Syrian refugees into the U.S. He has even called for the establishment of a database of all Muslim Americans in the country and wants to close mosques.
In a YouGov/CBS News poll last month, Trump and Carson were tied with 27% support each among voters in the Hawkeye State.
“I want surveillance of these people that are coming in, the Trojan horse. We’re going to have to look very, very carefully”.
Trump said it might not be politically correct to talk about it now, but that it was “well-covered at the time“.
Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop today ripped into Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump for saying he saw “thousands of people” in Jersey City cheer when the World Trade Center was destroyed on September 11, 2001.
“Long term, that is not something we will do or should do”, said GOP strategist Ed Rollins, who has worked for the past presidential campaigns of Republicans including former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, in 2008, and former Rep. Michele Bachmann (Minn.) in 2012.
“We don’t really have the option of deciding whether it’s easy or not to take them out”, Mr Carson.
As John Nolte explains at Breitbart, the answer is simple: CNN isn’t happy that Trump is the Republican frontrunner, so it’s trying to take him down. He has suggested surveying or closing a few mosques in America and calling for a database of all Muslims in the United States.
Now the constitutional (and moral) response to each of these three questions is of course “no”, but with the exception of the third question from Hillyard, Trump does not say “yes” either. They were cheering as the World Trade Center came down.
But on “Fox and Friends” Sunday, Trump did not exactly condemn it. “A few of the rhetoric will be put back into play in the fall, and it is not positive”, he said.
“It’s important that we don’t listen to the voices, including those coming from Republican candidates for President who would paint with such a broad brush, would want us to somehow isolate register Muslims, go after Islam”, she countered.
“If somebody is on a watch list, I would keep ’em away, absolutely”, he said. So what happens is, they write false stories, and in this case they got called on it by a lot of people, because, you know, you can only go so much, OK? It is a shock to no one that the same candidate who launched his campaign by claiming that Mexican immigrants are racists would revive a widely debunked 9/11 conspiracy theory for his own political gain.
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Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman for Mr. Trump, would not elaborate on his comments; his aides have repeatedly declined to make him available to address the controversies over a few of his statements. He was screaming. I had 10,000 people in the room yesterday – 10,000 people.
