Trump repeated the assertion Sunday in an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABCs This Week, as Stephanopoulos explained to Trump that police had refuted any such rumors at the time.It did happen. I think waterboarding is peanuts compared to what they’re doing us.
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In a NY Times article published yesterday where Trump calls for the surveillance of “certain mosques”, as well as a Syrian refugee database, the presidential hopeful heavily implied that the Muslim population in Jersey City applauded the 9/11 attacks as they occurred.
Without evidence on his side, perhaps Trump will back away from the claim. But the same report said those reports were unfounded.
Southall and fellow protester Carlos Havers said they hold Trump responsible, and Southall intends to press charges against his attackers.
Like expected, a few of the candidates for the White House came with their personal opinion on this statement, one of them being Chris Christie, fellow republican and New Jersey governor. “We’ve got to find out what it is”.
As The NY Times reported, it’s unclear to what Trump was referring. There was footage on 9/11, but it was from East Jerusalem, not Jersey City.
The fight started when he and his fellow black protester started recording the event on video and one attendee knocked the camera phone out of the other protester’s hand. We reached out to Trump’s campaign but didn’t hear back. For example, Paterson residents put up a banner on the city’s main street that said “The Muslim Community Does Not Support Terrorism”.
“Either @realDonaldTrump has memory issues or willfully distorts the truth, either of which should be concerning for the Republican Party”, Mayor Fulop said.
Jim Sues, executive director of the council’s chapter in New Jersey, said he’d like to see the original news reports on the “thousands” of Jersey City celebrants that Trump mentioned.
This defies basic logic.
Trump appears to have been arguing that the new national focus on criminal justice reform is perhaps misguided, as most slain African-Americans are killed by other African-Americans, not police officers.
Instead, all we found were a couple of news articles that described rumors of celebrations that were either debunked or unproven.
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U.S. officials assert that the attacks were carried out by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists but many experts have raised questions about the official account.
