Indeed, Couzens said the conversation “began to break down” when Trump was asked to apologize for several inflammatory remarks. “And now the poor guy, you gotta see this guy, ‘ahhh, ‘” Trump is heard saying on the video as he speaks to a crowd on the campaign trail.
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“We had one situation in which a candy store owned by a Muslim family was celebrating that day, right near a housing development”, Giuliani said.
As he has done at previous rallies, Trump boasted of his standing atop many GOP presidential preference polls. Nevertheless, at different times in his speech, he appeared more skeptical of the thought, telling the gang of roughly 5,000 in that the move would exclusively be spun by his opponents.
“For the most part, as far as 100 of us endorsing him, Donald Trump didn’t get 100 of us endorsing him yesterday. I met some fantastic people”, Trump told the press following the two and a half hour meeting. According to CNN, Trump said, “There were people that were cheering on the other side of New Jersey where you have large Arab populations”. I don’t remember.’ He’s going, ‘I don’t remember. Bush said Trump has offered conflicting opinions on his strategy to deal with Syria and the Islamic State group.
“There has been no jubilee in the streets”, Marty Barnes, mayor of Paterson, New Jersey, said in a press conference at the time, which is excerpted in the MTV documentary. “I don’t know it it’s an endorsement, I don’t know if it’s an endorsement by some”.
And Couzens said he asked Trump, specifically, to apologize for some comments he made about that Black Lives Matter protester roughed up at a Trump event. The controversy has continued from there, as Trump has doggedly insisted that he saw a television report that was the basis for his statement.
Chris Christie, New Jersey’s current governor and Trump’s rival in the 2016 race, said on Monday that Trump’s claim was “just wrong”.
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“Were people celebrating on 9/11? I think they really want to see victory, because ultimately it is about, we want to win and we want to win together”.
