But later on Monday, he walked back those statements. As TPM noted, it’s instead doing the opposite. Obama said he believed the practice, which simulates drowning, constituted torture and was an illegal form of interrogation. “Personally, would I like the U.S. Supreme Court to decide these issues so we know what is, so it doesn’t keep coming up? He goes to these various different rallies and he creates all sorts of problems”, Michael Cohen, executive vice president of the Trump Foundation, told CNN’s Chris Cuomo.
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However, the article Trump pointed to as support of his claim only says “a number of people”-not thousands”.
Except, that doesn’t make any sense. There is no evidence in news archives of mass celebrations by Muslims in Jersey City, as he alleged on the weekend. Carson is third with 18 percent, and Marco Rubio is fourth with 13 percent. Its spokesman, Matt David, said on Sunday that 10 new donors had pledged money since Thursday when Politico reported the group’s plans to attack Trump in New Hampshire.
“The Republican frontrunner then added “… and if it doesn’t work, they deserve it anyway for what they do to us”.
“I want an apology”, he tweeted Monday. They asked me: Did I see the film? “I am the guy to do it, and they know that”. “And I was making the point that it was inappropriate”.
“There were people that were cheering on the other side of New Jersey, where you have large Arab populations”.
Q: Yes. Can you expand on that? In Quinnipiac’s October poll, Carson topped the field with 28%, while Trump earned 20%.
Cohen said Trump demands to be “treated fairly”, and said that even if the Republican National Committee isn’t directly behind the negative advertising, it could be held responsible.
Earlier Tuesday, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said he strongly condemned Trump’s claims and he remembered “a lot of peaceful Muslims that were disheartened and grieved and sad and angry just as every other American was as well”. “If you think about your childhood memories, can you really tell for a fact that something really happened, or perhaps it was a comical tale your parents told that may not be true but it enters your consciousness?”
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Q: But did you see that happening though on 9/11?
