At this point in the presidential election cycle, political journalists everywhere should seriously consider bookmarking Wikipedia’s page listing every conspiracy theory known to man, because Donald Trump just resurfaced a new one: that Muslims in New Jersey celebrated the 9/11 attacks shortly after the World Trade Center towers collapsed.
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With polling showing Americans more willing to forgo some civil liberties in the name of safety, Carson told supporters, “I would say we use our intelligence and we monitor anything, a mosque, a church, a museum, a supermarket, anyplace where radicalization is going on”. “Either he’s willfully making up lies or he has memory issues”, Mayor Steven Fulop said.
Released Saturday, a Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll of New Hampshire voters also found Trump to be leading Carson among Republicans by double-digits, 22 percent to 10 percent. They wanted to say, ‘Carson says he saw a video that doesn’t exist.’ I mean, you know how they are.
“I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down”, the candidate said.
Republican George Pataki, Former NY Governor who served the state during the 9/11 attacks mocked Donald’s comment and reassured people it was not true. Law enforcement has since said these were unproven claims.
“I saw it on TV, but there weren’t thousands of people- probably hundreds”, said Eric, a caller in Stockton. And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down.
At the time, Trump said that he was happy to sign the nonbinding pledge because the RNC assured him that it would treat him “fairly”.
“We were actually among the first to provide responders to help in lower Manhattan”.
Though he issued less of a terse denial of Trump’s charges, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), a presidential rival, also cast doubt on Trump’s claims.
The NY Times said definitively that “no news reports exist of people celebrating”.
There were Palestinians in East Jerusalem who applauded and cheered the attacks on September 11.
Almost 3,000 people were killed when the World Trade Center towers fell, and approximately 1,500 rescuers responded immediately to the scene.
This isn’t the first time a top Hudson County official has gone after Trump in the midst of his controversial campaign. That never happened. There were no flags burning, no one was dancing.
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Although he signed a pledge not to run as a third-party candidate, Trump appears to be reassessing whether he wants to keep that possibility on the table – especially since a GOP operative is apparently plotting a “guerrilla campaign” against him, according to the Wall Street Journal.
