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“his original description cannot be supported by any evidence whatsoever.”

You can’t really go that far. I know for a fact that such celebrations did take place in the New Jersey shore overlooking the World Trade Center, because I watched the news reports and videos of those celebrations in the streets. How many people were involved in those celebrations I wouldn’t know, except there were enough to give the impression of crowds along the street yelling and screaming in joy in front of the camera lens. I also recall the news reports about similar happiness being celebrated in the public areas by Muslims in Texas, California, and Illinois. One of the reasons I can remember these news reports was because of the discussions I had with people about the Muslims seen in those news reports.

Now this business about there being thousands upon thousands of such Muslim celebrants is almost certainly just Trumps rhetorical hyperbole. You can justly criticize him for using hyperbole, but denying there were large numbers of such Muslim celebrants is simply not going to fly for those of us who watched those news stories on that day.

I will also add that I was on the Pacific Coast and engaged in a telephone conversation with a business associate located in a skyscraper located on the New Jersey shoreline in an office overlooking the World Trade Center. He had to halt our conversation when he saw the explosion on the North Tower occur when the first airliner struck. He could see something catastrophic happened, but he still did not realize the explosion was caused by an aircraft crashing into the building. He asked me to check the news on the Internet and television to see if there was any news. There wasn’t any further information for awhile, and we discussed what it might be, including a small plane crash. Then the news of the disaster started to come through on the Internet and the television talking about an airliner striking the WTC, and I relayed it to him. It was while we were discussing this event that he and I saw the second airliner crash into the South Tower. He saw it happen from his office in the distance, and I saw it on the television as the news crews had their TV cameras trained on the WTC.

It was later the next day he described how they were sent home from their office early, and he saw some small crowds of people out on the New Jersey streets overlooking Manhattan celebrating the disaster. He was angered and disgusted by what he saw them doing, and we were talking about it a lot the next day.