Donald Trump is still the Republican frontrunner for the presidential nomination – and GOP leaders are concerned with the businessman’s controversial comments. A week of raging debate over Syrian refugees and Islamic State violence has scattered misinformation everywhere.
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For nearly two weeks now, Donald Trump has been asserting that “thousands” of Muslims in New Jersey were celebrating the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. “Police were called to the building by other neighbors and found eight men celebrating – six of them tenants in the building”.
GIULIANI: And there were – and I can tell you reported to me – I didn’t see them.
Pastor Victor Couzens of Cincinnati, who attended Monday’s meeting and is not endorsing Trump, said the candidate owed the Black Lives Matter protester an apology.
Evidence is scarce for understandable reasons, starting with the fact that the horror took place fourteen years ago and nobody knew they would need proof.
“It didn’t happen and the fact is, people can say anything, but the facts are the facts, and that didn’t happen in New Jersey that day and hasn’t happened since”, Christie told reporters at a campaign stop in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Monday. Nevertheless, Trump looks to continue on with his approach with no plans to change anything that has put him in the “first position in every single poll”. “I thought he’d be a great cheerleader for the country, that’s one thing I thought”, Trump went on.
There’s a reason those black ministers aren’t endorsing him, says pastor E.W. Jackson, who leads conservative group S.T.A.N.D.
“I don’t want to discuss that”, he said. And I applaud Mr. Kovaleski for being a positive role model and showing what people with disabilities can do when they are given a chance.
“I came here as a responsible person to make sure that everybody is safe and make sure there is no backlash”, he says. “Probably not in his domain, [but] in a more neutral community – maybe possibly in a black church, maybe my church, where we can see how comfortable he is in our space, and whether or not he can relate to some of the concerns we raise”.
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With no evidence to support Trump’s allegations regarding his recollection of the events in New Jersey after 9/11, many Muslim-Americans in Jersey City are left wondering how this conversation is even occurring.
