“I stick by it”, Trump said.
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Nihad Awad, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said the Republican Party should distance itself from Trump’s remarks or else his “bigotry” will be a part of the party’s legacy.
Former Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, who served as NY mayor’s during the time of the 2001 attacks, meanwhile, warned Donald Trump he might have a huge political problem on his hands if he were not able to produce any evidence about Muslim Americans’ celebrations, The Guardian reported.
With all of the great and bad things that Trump proclaims, whether true or not, why did we all of the sudden vilify him for saying that he saw Muslims cheering in New Jersey on 9/11?
Emily Acevedo was a senior in high school when she was interviewed by MTV News in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Following Trump’s initial claim, GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson seemed to back him up. Asked about the “Burn America” chants that she said she’d heard more than a decade ago, she said that she remembered news outlets “saying something about America is burning right now”. “It was just so sad”. Also, she notes that the behavior of those children wasn’t very different than what majority were doing in the same period. There is one report – this has not been confirmed – but there are several reports: “It was a cell – one of these cells across the Hudson River – and they got on the – this is a report and I emphasize I don’t know this for a fact, but there’s several witnesses who say this happened”. Still, it’s very interesting that she has never said anything about the religion or the ethnicity of the kids, according to experts who have been analyzing the video.
Donald Trump and yours truly, among others, have been branded liars by left wing talking heads that claim Muslims didn’t celebrate in New Jersey after the attacks of 9/11.
Trump has called for increased surveillance of mosques, and claimed at a November 21 campaign stop that he saw “thousands and thousands” of people in Jersey City cheering as the World Trade Center was destroyed.
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Trump also pointed to a 2001 newspaper article, and his campaign adviser cited clips from WCBS and MTV he said substantiated his account. Like expected, he managed to create even more controversy that some of his previous statements did.
