Rudy Giuliani, a Republican and former mayor of NY, told CNN that Trump is exaggerating. Trump said he’d give the money to programs that help veterans. Trump kicked off his campaign with a speech in which he said some Mexican immigrants are rapists and criminals, and recently drew criticism for retweeting an image of inaccurate statistics that vastly overrepresented the number of whites killed by blacks, among other errors.
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GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump claims he saw Muslim Americans celebrating after the terror attacks on September 11th in 2001, and now he’s getting heat from his own party.
“Probably some of the Black Lives Matter folks called them up and said, ‘You shouldn’t be meeting with Trump because he believes that all lives matter, ‘” he said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”.
Trump, who claimed his sarcasm resulted in him being misrepresented by the press and his opponents, said “How about I tell CNN, who doesn’t treat me properly …” I wrote about the controversy here, agreeing that Trump exaggerated-there was no evidence that thousands of Muslims celebrated-but that Kessler was also wrong in dogmatically denying that there was any evidence of any such reaction to the 9/11 attacks.
In another tweet, Trump posted a video of WABC radio host and Guardian Angels founder Curtis Silwa references cheering following the 9/11 attacks.
Black voters, he says, like Trump because he’s “speaking up” and “telling the truth”, and because he fights back when others go after him. The billionaire reality TV star said he couldn’t have mocked Kovaleski because he had never seen him.
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His campaign issued a press release last week that read: “Mr. Trump will be joined by a coalition of 100 African-American evangelical pastors and religious leaders who will endorse the GOP front-runner after a private meeting at Trump Tower”. Bush said Trump has offered conflicting opinions on his strategy to deal with Syria and the Islamic State group. “Everybody knows that”, he said. If it shows up it will corroborate him, if it doesn’t show up, it’s going to make him look really bad’.
