Republican Presidential frontrunner Donald Trump didn’t back down from his controversial comments Monday night, saying residents of Jersey City, New Jersey celebrated the World Trade Center attacks on September 11.
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“And I watched those people jump and I watched the second plane hit…”
“The recent attacks in Paris remind us that our country is in need more than ever of a leader who is qualified and experienced to understand and lead our military”, said Tom Moe, who was a prisoner of war with Sen. Matt David, chief strategist for the Kasich super-PAC New Day for America, told Reuters that 10 new donors backing different presidential candidates have already given money and pledges totaling more than $1 million to help with the attacks.
Supporters of Republican John Kasich (KAY’-sik) say he has the resume to avoid making the type of inflammatory statements that are tripping up GOP rivals who lack similar government experience. I don’t know if you’ve seen it with the cages, where they put people in cages and they drown them in the ocean and then they lift out the cage. Neurosurgeon Ben Carson similarly has a grand total of zero “true” statements checked by PolitiFact.
“Dr. Carson does not stand behind the statement attributed to him early today regarding events surrounding 9/11”.
In the afternoon the Kasich campaign is hosting a second conference call for reporters with veterans to “discuss Donald Trump, national security prior to Trump’s Columbus speech”.
Several hecklers at Monday’s event were escorted out by police, and audible boos could be heard in the crowd during parts of his speech.
“Would I approve waterboarding?”
“I think he’s done a great job on our deficit in OH”, Charles Kronenberger, a Columbus resident, said of Kasich.
President Obama banned waterboarding and other so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” in 2009.
Trump insisted that the USA should reinstate the practice because it pales in comparison to ISIS’ violence, citing the numerous beheadings and brutal executions the terrorist group has carried out.
“I don’t want to close mosques; I want to surveil mosques”, he said.
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“We have great people in the Muslim population, but something’s happening”. Asked if there should be a database system for tracking Muslims in the United States, Trump said, “There should be a lot of systems, beyond databases”. “If it doesn’t work, they deserve it anyway for what they’re doing to us”, he said. “We have to have strong surveillance”.
