U.S. presidential candidate Jeb Bush has rejected his Republican rival Donald Trump’s claim that thousands of Muslim Americans cheered as the World Trade Center collapsed on September 11, 2001 in NY. “I don’t”, he told reporters on the campaign trail in New Hampshire.
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The GOP frontrunner was the focus of Colbert’s desk segment Tuesday night, specifically Trump’s recent claims that he “saw” Muslims celebrating in New Jersey after the attacks of 9/11. Many people who witnessed it are now denying it. It is a real-life, large-scale conspiracy.
The protester was Black Lives Matter activist Mercutio Southall, who said rally attendees who attacked him and called him and two fellow protestors racial slurs. 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.
“Yeah, yeah. I thought we were just talking about the fact that Muslims were inappropriately celebrating”, he said. “I seen in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as in that building was coming down”, he stated in a speech Saturday.
“Last month, we said it was Dr. Ben Carson’s turn in the spotlight”.
The Quinnipiac University Poll, directed by Douglas Schwartz, Ph.D., conducts public opinion surveys in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Florida, Ohio, Virginia, Iowa, Colorado and the nation as a public service and for research. “What the exact number is, I don’t know, and I don’t think it’s relevant”.
“All it was is a re-tweet – it wasn’t from me – and it … came out of a radio show and other places”, he said. “You have a presidential candidate who is deliberately stoking fear and smearing a whole population of people”, said Jones, who formerly worked in the Obama administration.
Colbert really turned the comedy on when Trump claimed to have been someone who is able to predict the future, citing his reference to Osama bin Laden being an enemy of the USA back in 2000.
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“If we have evidence that there is radicalization going on – and the point that I’m making is that it doesn’t have to be specific to a mosque; it can be anything”. “You can see and you report them to the local police”.
