At the same rally on Saturday, Mr Trump was interrupted by a demonstrator from the Black Lives Matter movement. “There were people over in New Jersey that were watching it – a heavy Arab population that were cheering as the buildings came down”. “The result is the jumble ABC News presented Sunday, wherein a frustrated interviewer is forced to entertain the candidate’s lies and try to rebut them in real time, knowing that defusing each and every falsehood is impossible”, argues Matthews. “I know it might not be politically correct for you to talk about it, but there were people cheering as that building came down”, Trump said, insisting not only did he personally watch them cheering on TV, but that “it was well covered at the time”. “And that tells you something”. And that tells you something.A spokeswoman did not respond to a request for clarification Saturday about Trumps comments.In a statement, Jersey City Mayor Fulop criticized Trump for his statements.Trump is plain wrong, and he is shamefully politicizing an emotionally charged issue, said Fulop.
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It was like a “lynch mob” says the man who was kicked and beaten at a Trump rally.
In the wake of the September 11, 2001, attacks, the Bush administration turned to waterboarding, a method in which a suspect is made to feel like he’s drowning, to try to extract information from al-Qaida suspects.
Savage went on to proclaim that his full solution for Syrian refugees was more thought-out and better than what Trump said. The Post story includes no source for this information, and we found no evidence that any of these allegations ever stuck. I don’t know, roughed up?
Trump did get back up from his primary opponent Ben Carson, who told reporters gathered in Nevada that he did see celebrations of American Muslims in New Jersey after 9/11.
And yesterday, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) was given a chance to defend his own constituents and make clear that Trump’s claims are ridiculous.
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The next day, the Washington Post reported police questioned a number of people holding rooftop parties as they watched the smoke rise across the river, but there is no report or video of “thousands of people” celebrating the attack. “It was one television [and] I saw it. George, it did happen”. “I punched back. You know don’t do the turn-the-other-cheek (expletive)”. I will see what happens. “If I’m treated fairly, I’m fine”, he said Sunday on “This Week”. I want mosques surveilled. But the same report said those reports were unfounded. I don’t remember that. The thousands who attended Trump’s rally were almost all white in a city with a black majority.
