But the September 11 claim wasn’t the only controversial one the NY real estate mogul made in recent days.
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NBC filed a notice about Trump’s “SNL” appearance on November 10, allowing his rivals to request equal coverage time.
A number of people – including Chris Christie – said they don’t remember any cheering in Jersey City. There were people over in New Jersey that were watching it, a heavy Arab population, that were cheering as the buildings came down. Asked how that differed from efforts last century to track Jews in Nazi Germany, he said: “You tell me”.
Carson said while campaigning today that not only mosques – but also schools, supermarkets, vehicle fix shops and “any place where radicalization is going on” – should be monitored in light of terrorist threats. I have a brother-in-law in NY City, and he saw lots of people cheering.
Trump did get back up from his primary opponent Ben Carson, who told reporters gathered in Nevada that he did see celebrations of American Muslims in New Jersey after 9/11.
While he was reveling in the limelight over his anti-Muslim rhetoric, Trump found a way to garner additional news coverage by having a black lives matter protester thrown out of his rally in Birmingham, Alabama.
PolitiFact noted that there were several media reports of police inquiries into individuals who were suspected of celebrating the attacks in Jersey City and nearby Paterson, but there is no evidence that these investigations revealed any actual celebrations or resulted in any convictions. “Either he’s willfully making up lies or he has memory issues”, Mayor Steven Fulop said.
A new poll indicates that Donald Trump has regained a slight lead in Iowa, with Ted Cruz very close behind and Ben Carson moving down.
It was not clear what Mr. Trump was referring to.
Among Republicans, meanwhile, the ability to beat Clinton in the general election is seen as more important than the eventual nominee’s commitment to shrink government, Fox News noted.
“I don’t think it’s a good idea to treat anybody differently, one of the hallmarks of America is that we treat everybody the same”, Carson said.
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Rumours of American Muslims celebrating the 2001 attacks circulated on the internet but were denied by police and religious leaders.
