Posted on 11/22/2015 7:38:57 AM PST by SMGFan
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump continued his call for surveillance of "certain" U.S. mosques — at one point supporting his case by recounting how he witnessed "thousands and thousands of people" cheering in Jersey City as the Twin Towers fell on Sept. 11, 2001.
"Hey, I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down," the billionaire businessman and former Atlantic City casino tycoon said during a rally in Birmingham, Ala., according to video of the Saturday event. "And I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down. Thousands of people were cheering.
"So something's going on," Trump continued. "We've got to find out what it is
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
According to John Hinderaker at Powerline, it took less than two minutes to find confirmation of Mr. Trump’s statement—and from the Washington Post no less:
Although he says it’s probably an exaggeration to say it was “thousands.” Fair enough, but celebrations were occurring, and the police did detain some of the celebrants.
towers fell short of 10 am and near 1030. Where were most people? At work or school. JC traffic was a mess. What press could report it? Jersey Journal “staff” headed to Exchange Place & Liberty Park. NO tv crews would have traveled to areas Muslims live or anywhere beyond the staging area for the ferrys
Doubters want to see proof. Some proof is the word of eyewitness neighbors.
Are you saying it did, or did not, happen as Trump described?
Didn’t happen. And I remember every detail of that day unfortunately.
BS. I was there and Muslims did cheer in NJ. There are photos from FBI investigations where people took selfies of themselves on building tops with the burning buildings behind them.
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