There was an AP report describing rumors of rooftop celebrations of the attack in Jersey City. There were no firecrackers. “It was one television [and] I saw it. George, it did happen”.
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“It was well covered at the time, George”, Trump said.
Donald Trump has come under fire for saying he saw a few New Jersey residents celebrating the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, a claim that has been questioned by various fact-checkers.
Both Politifact and The Washington Post’s Fact Checker analyzed Trump’s claim.
Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks didn’t immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment on Kasich’s efforts.
There’s no supporting evidence of such celebrations in 2001 cited or linked there.
Others pointed to statements from friends or family. “I do not remember that, and so it’s not something that was part of my recollection”.
New Jersey has already instituted such a ban, but the state’s governor, Republican presidential hopeful Chris Christie, said on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday that he opposes a federal version.
“I had my business on Pennsylvania Ave in Paterson, N.J”.
As hard as it might be to stomach, if there were people in a few quarters of this country who cheered during the tragic events of 9/11, they were exercising their protected right of free speech – something that is put to the greatest test when it is most offensively expressed. “You bet your ass I would”, the candidate said of the practice, which is considered torture under worldwide conventions. I had stopped in at Biggs bagels on crooks ave by the railroad tracks. I don’t know if on the basis of that you can say all Muslims are bad people. Find out a few minutes later America was under attack.
STEPHANOPOULOS: – with your own eyes? I witnessed pure evil.
Trump has pledged to be the toughest of all candidates toward people posing threats to the U.S. On Sunday said he would back ways to track Muslims in the USA and also bring back waterboarding on terrorism suspects.
Speziale said those people are flat-out wrong.
“I want a change where black people, black males can feel safe walking the streets, feel as if they are not being racially profiled, are not going to get shot dead by a police officer”, Irby said.
Branding undocumented immigrants from Mexico, rapists and criminals and backing a database for Muslims in the United States proposals could have ended a more traditional campaign, but not Trump’s, as citizens more and more scared of the “outside” world want a leader that can ensure them their safety.
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Greg Sargent wrote for The Washington Post: “To be clear, I don’t think this new polling is necessarily predictive of anything”. It is unclear whether he actually knows or cares what political correctness means.
