Giuliani estimated that there were about 40 people celebrating the September 11 attacks in Brooklyn and Queens. “I won’t do the debate unless they pay me $5 million and the money goes to wounded warriors or vets”, Trump said. “Twelve. Thirty. Forty” people celebrated.
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Burns said Trump “made it clear to all of us that he had no idea it was a Black Lives Matter (protester)… or a black person period”.
Although he couldn’t provide an official count, Scott did say that there were a number of pastors who endorsed Trump.
‘Well, I think what he’s doing is exaggerating, right?’ Giuliani said.
Giuliani said he would have known about a large gathering of that sort. “But the headline turns out to be exaggerated”.
But here’s the bigger question: Are we now at a point where the information coming from Trump and his campaign is so unreliable that the media need to be skeptical of even the most basic claims? “In between those good people are rapists, murderers and killers”.
Following Trump’s initial claim, GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson seemed to back him up.
In any case, initial press reports that described what the event would entail, including a New York Times story posted last Wednesday, proved inaccurate because the full, 100-pastor endorsement didn’t happen. Trump wrote. “New Jerseyans not happy!” “I have hundreds of people that agree with me”. “I see love everywhere I go”, Trump told reporters in an impromptu press conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan where the meeting was held, according to CNN. Officials could not find evidence such celebrations ever occurred.
“We will oppose him and others through our moral goodness. I’m smarter than they are”. But for some reason, they’re not that easy to come by.
“I saw it and a lot of people saw it”, he said at a rally in Waterville, New Hampshire Tuesday night. So why would I take it back? I don’t remember.’ He’s going, ‘I don’t remember.
“Take it easy, Chuck”. “Just play the preachers”. And you can tell these were things that were already on his mind. Every major party candidate in the past 50 years has campaigned with the hope of making everybody like them. “And I never forgot it”.
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“We’re here talking about really serious important issues and whatever Donald Trump has said for the day today is quite frankly nothing I have any interest in responding to, I’m running for president”, Christie said, prompting response from the audience.
