He said that said he knows important people, who want to be politically correct, who go on television and question the effectiveness of waterboarding – but then tell him privately later that it does work.
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Donald Trump has dug himself a hole of lies about seeing Muslims celebrating 9/11 in New Jersey – and his campaign manager has grabbed a shovel and is helping to dig in deeper.
Donald Trump has also sent out a tweet with inaccurate statistics and when challenged Trump said, “I’m gonna check every statistic?” “And they drop them in the ocean for 15 minutes and pull them up 15 minutes later”, Trump said.
The misstep comes as Carson and Trump have both faced mounting criticism for calling for expanded surveillance of Muslim Americans in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Paris that left more than 100 people dead and hundreds more injured.
“The real greatest resource is all of you, because you have all those eyes and you see what’s happening”, he told listeners in Myrtle Beach, S.C”.
In an odd way, this reminds me of Trump goofing on McCain’s war heroism this past summer by saying he prefers heroes who don’t get captured. Of course, at that time, bin Laden had already been well documented as a terrorist for incidents throughout the ’90s.
That statement was widely mocked by critics who doubted whether Mr Trump could have seen the disaster unfolding as his home – in the Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, close to Central Park – was at the other end of Manhattan.
The Republican presidential contender lives in Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan, more than four miles away from where the World Trade Center towers once stood. “And you know, I was really focusing on that it was an inappropriate thing to do, no matter where they were”. “Many people have tweeted that I am right”. “They’re coming from a certain part of the world with a certain philosophy”, Trump said.
The new poll proves nothing but Trump’s surge to the top of the Republican presidential race.
Mr. Trump said Monday evening on Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor” that he’s “probably the least racist person on earth”.
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Trump was apparently referring to a Jersey City crowd that included Muslims when he made the remarks, telling a crowd on the campaign traIl this past weekend that “thousands of people were cheering, so something is going on”.
