“It is out of the ordinary when a candidate recycles demonstrably false Internet rumors — that thousands of American Muslims celebrated the attacks of 9/11, for example — and stands by them even when they are disproved.”
Give it a rest. Trump had the basic story correct, just apparently not the numbers. Yet you join the Washington Post in nitpicking a detail that is trivial to the larger point Trump was making. Nice company you are keeping.
“It is out of the ordinary when a candidate recycles demonstrably false Internet rumors — that thousands of American Muslims celebrated the attacks of 9/11, for example — and stands by them even when they are disproved.”
That is a lie that has been refuted hundreds of times right here on FR. many of us witnessed directly or through the television news broadcasts at the time they occurred. We also found the contemporary news reports of their occurrence.