Republican presidential hopeful Lindsey Graham said Donald Trump’s “white-hot rhetoric”, including calling for surveillance of certain muslim mosques, puts US diplomats and soldiers overseas at risk.
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“They were cheering as the World Trade Center came down”.
He said in addition to the Trump attack ads, New Day for America would continue to spend money trying to promote Kasich, whose support in the polls is in the single digits.
Trump has recently embraced a number of hard-line, provocative positions specifically targeting Muslims in the US.
Trump remains in the lead of the Republican presidential field.
But he said there was always concern about potential copycat attacks by homegrown violent extremists of the kind seen in the past.
“I think people are surprised that, you know, they’re politicians and they’ve been doing this stuff all their lives. It was well covered at the time”.
“You know there are going to be people who respond inappropriately to virtually everything”, Carson said.
Shaker Heights City Councilman James Brady, a Persian Gulf War veteran, said he fought for the right to protest and was insulted by Saturday’s event and Trump’s comments.
His latest Trumpism has particularly caught the attention of New Jerseyans – a claim that he witnessed “thousands and thousands” of people in Jersey City cheering as the World Trade Center tumbled down on 9/11.
While there were images of people cheering the towers’ collapse in parts of the Middle East, there is no record of such celebrations in New Jersey. But Jersey City’s current mayor says Trump is perpetuating a falsehood.
Despite Trump’s 9/11 claim, “no news coverage or other evidence corroborated them”, the Post reports.
“Security and border and walls and you have to come into the country legally has morphed into Isis because basically we want to keep that crap out of here, ” Trump said in a speech at the Greater Columbus Convention Center before a crowd estimated at 14,000.
Ben Carson, who faced criticism this week for comparing Syrian refugees to “rabid dogs”, would not say whether he would reinstate the use of waterboarding.
If Donald Trump were a character on a sharp-tongued political comedy like Veep (maybe Jonah’s longtime mentor?), he would be one of the funniest, most compelling characters on TV.
Stephanopoulos clarified, “So you would bring back waterboarding?”
While rumours have circulated on the internet for years that American Muslims celebrated the attacks in Paterson, New Jersey, police officials and religious leaders denied it at the time.
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Trump also stoked fears among the Republican Party that if he does not capture the party’s nomination, he will seek a third-party run for president.
