Hey, I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down.
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CNN reports that a black protester who tried to disrupt Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Alabama Saturday was involved in an altercation with several crowd members. Trump repeated the assertion Sunday in an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABCs This Week, as Stephanopoulos explained to Trump that police had refuted any such rumors at the time.It did happen.
Reacting to the protestor’s interruption, Trump stood by his supporters, telling “Fox & Friends” on Sunday morning, “I have lot of fans and they were not happy about it”. It was on television. Now, I know they don’t like to talk about it. (…) There were people over in New Jersey that were watching it, a heavy Arab population that were cheering as the buildings came down.
“Trump’s recollection of events in New Jersey in the hours after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks flies in the face of all the evidence we could find”, Politifact reports. In Birmingham, Trump suggested that after the falling of World Trade Center towers, Jersey City was filled with euphoria. A rumor circulated at the time that that Muslims were celebrating in New Jersey was quickly debunked by police.
“I flat out condemned the idea that we were going to have Muslims register”, he said.
“No, not at all”, Trump said before reiterating his plan for a database to track Syrian refugees accepted into the United States. And for a few reason he’s glommed onto an entirely discredited claim, that New Jersey Muslims rallied in the streets to celebrate the deaths on 9/11. Hooper said. “The political climate is getting so toxic and Islam-aphobia is getting so acceptable and mainstream, I don’t know where we’re headed as a nation”.
“Maybe he should have been roughed up”, Trump said. “I think waterboarding is peanuts compared to what they’d do to us”, he said.
Trump held up the signed promise at the time and said: “I will be totally pledging my allegiance to the Republican Party and the conservative principle for which it stands”.
Trump has recently embraced a number of hard-line, provocative positions specifically targeting Muslims in the US. “I want mosques surveiled”.
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The real estate mogul told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that he wants to monitor mosques, saying, “There are certain hot spots, and everybody knows (the mosques) are hot spots”.
