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Trump: 'Many people jumped and I witnessed it' on 9/11
CNN ^
| 11/24/15
| Jeremy Diamond
Posted on 11/24/2015 8:12:35 AM PST by Clint N. Suhks
Columbus, Ohio (CNN)Donald Trump said Monday that he witnessed people jumping out of the Twin Towers on 9/11 from the view in his apartment.
"Many people jumped and I witnessed it, I watched that. I have a view -- a view in my apartment that was specifically aimed at the World Trade Center," Trump said Monday during a rally in Columbus, Ohio.
"And I watched those people jump and I watched the second plane hit ... I saw the second plane hit the building and I said, 'Wow that's unbelievable,'" Trump continued.
At least 200 people are believed to have jumped from the Twin Towers after planes struck the towers in an attack that claimed more than 2,600 lives.
The Republican presidential contender lives in Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan, more than four miles away from where the World Trade Center towers once stood. Trump has lived in the 5th Avenue tower since before the attacks, according to media reports pre-dating 9/11.
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment asking how Trump witnessed people jumping out of the Twin Towers from more than four miles away.
Trump on Monday also dug into his claim that Muslims in New Jersey celebrated the terrorist attacks on 9/11, a claim that has been widely debunked by multiple fact-checkers.
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KEYWORDS: elections; mediabias; trump; trump911; trumpwasright
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To: USS Alaska
Another person who shifts away from Trump’s outright lie.
No one disputes that Muslims were dancing in the streets in the Middle East.
No one can find any record of what Trump claims he saw on television in Jersey.
A Trump lie is no better than an Obama lie. If you have to bend over backwards to support Trump even when you know he is lying, not much I can do about it.
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posted on
11/24/2015 10:54:47 AM PST
by
sakic
To: RoosterRedux
Dusty archive?
We are talking about a time with full access to network video. You make it sound like the the era of kinescopes.
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posted on
11/24/2015 10:56:41 AM PST
by
sakic
To: driftdiver
Idiot, I support Cruz, but I suppose when caught backing a stone-cold lie, you could do no better in your response.
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posted on
11/24/2015 10:58:25 AM PST
by
sakic
To: freepertoo
You saw thousands celebrating in New Jersey,too?
Is this mass hypnosis at work?
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posted on
11/24/2015 10:59:57 AM PST
by
sakic
To: sakic
No one can find any record of what Trump claims he saw on television in JerseyLiar.
Many members of the public have come forward supporting Trump's account because they, too, saw it on local television - and many saw it in person in their neighborhoods.
To: Darksheare
Watched the video. Which province in China contains New Jersey?
Amazing to watch Conservatives running away from truth in order to back Trump.
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posted on
11/24/2015 11:04:43 AM PST
by
sakic
To: sakic
Moved the goalposts, how typical.
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posted on
11/24/2015 11:06:02 AM PST
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: sakic
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posted on
11/24/2015 11:07:35 AM PST
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: Clint N. Suhks; CatherineofAragon; greeneyes; JRandomFreeper; JoeProBono
Not only could he see people jumping from the towers four miles away, he can see New Jersey from his window. I wonder if he sees my house from Trump Tower.
If he can see my house, last Saturday, he saw me running down the sidewalk in my nightgown with my panties in my hand as I ran after my four pound Yorkie, Prissy, when she took off out of the front door. I had begun to dress for church when she started barking at the front door which meant someone was there.
Went to front door and saw nothing. I barely opened the door to see if something was left on the door and she took off like a bullet to go see him (she loves everyone). He was pretty far down the street on the sidewalk and I immediately took off after her. He caught her when she got there and yelled he had her. When I got there he said, "She is really fast." He was with an organization gathering canned goods for people for Thanksgiving and I told him we gave canned goods to our Catholic Church for that purpose. I thanked him for catching her and hurriedly went back home.
I went back to the dressing room and told Bob what happened. He said he wished he had his telephone camera to take a picture of that and put it on Facebook. There are no pictures, so all of you will have to see it in your mind instead. Let me know if you want to adopt 4 lb. Prissy but remember you will have to stay dressed every minute of the day in case she tears off to go see someone on the sidewalk. :o)
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posted on
11/24/2015 11:08:32 AM PST
by
Marcella
(CRUZ (Prepping can save your life today.))
To: sakic
Do you have access to it? No?
What a surprise.
To: DoodleDawg
The mayor of the New Jersey town where Trump said he saw “thousands” and “thousands” of them celebrating the downing of the towers, said it did not happen and the police dept. of that town also said it didn’t happen.
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posted on
11/24/2015 11:15:38 AM PST
by
Marcella
(CRUZ (Prepping can save your life today.))
To: sakic
The only non-network people with “full access to network video” were those who had their VCRs running for the first 48 hours. I wasn’t one of them.
To: Marcella
To: Clint N. Suhks
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posted on
11/24/2015 11:26:51 AM PST
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to to God!)
To: Jim Robinson
Poster at 87 says we’re all lying, insists nobody can produce video...
*snort*
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posted on
11/24/2015 11:28:41 AM PST
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: M. Thatcher
I was the REALLY pretty one!
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posted on
11/24/2015 11:31:37 AM PST
by
EDINVA
To: sakic
Northern New Jersey Draws Probers' Eyes
By Serge F. Kovaleski and Fredrick Kunkle September 18, 2001
The FBI investigation into the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon has led agents back to a familiar area: northern New Jersey.
It was there, in Jersey City, just across the Hudson River from Manhattan, that a Muslim cell plotted the 1993 bombing of the twin towers and sought to destroy other New York landmarks as part of an urban guerrilla war against the United States.
It is believed that 13 of those detained by federal authorities for questioning in its probe into the worst terrorist act in U.S. history are from northeastern New Jersey, some from the same Journal Square area where suspects in the 1993 bombing lived.
Teams of agents have also conducted myriad interviews and seized computer and paper records at apartment buildings, businesses, hotels and motels in at least 10 towns and cities in northern New Jersey -- from Weehawken to Wayne, and Fort Lee to Florham Park. Furthermore, FBI teams and state troopers have done the same at several flight training schools and charter businesses at small airports in the area, including the Morristown and Teeterboro airports.
At Morristown Municipal Airport, Tom O'Looney, president of Certified Flyers Inc., said investigators left him a 20-page FBI watch list containing the names of 300 people. Michael Glover, director of American Flyers at the Morristown airport, said authorities asked him about any foreign nationals who may have attended his flight school. But Glover said none were on his rolls.
Law enforcement officials said northeastern New Jersey could be potentially fertile ground as 4,000 FBI special agents search for accomplices, associates and ultimately further clues about last Tuesday's devastating terrorist strikes against symbols of American financial and military might.
In October 1995, Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, an Egyptian cleric who delivered fiery sermons at a run-down mosque in Jersey City, was convicted of directing the conspiracy to blow up the United Nations, an FBI building, and three bridges and tunnels linking New York and New Jersey. He was also convicted of being part of a plot to kill Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Sayyid Nosair of Jersey City and Cliffside Park was also charged in the 1990 killing of Rabbi Meir Kahane in Manhattan. The Kahane murder was the beginning of a series of militant acts by the Muslim cell that was encouraged by Abdel-Rahman, the group's spiritual leader.
One such act was the Feb. 26, 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six people, injured more than 1,000 and inflicted $500 million worth of damage.
"The area in and around Jersey City has provided individuals in the past who were bent on terrorism. So I am sure that area is of great interest to investigators right now," said James K. Kallstrom, the former head of the FBI's New York office. "They are not knocking down any straw men at this point. I think now is the time when the broad spectrum of possibilities has to be looked at."
In Jersey City, an urban enclave of 240,055 people that is home to one of the largest Arab populations among U.S. cities, members of that Middle Eastern community said they are being unfairly targeted and misunderstood by the FBI.
"First of all, I think the people [convicted] of the bombing of the World Trade Center were innocent. . . . The Muslims are an easy way out, especially when you don't know who committed the act," said Essam Abouhamer, director of the Altawheed Islam Center. "The message of Islam is to be peaceful with yourself and others."
Hasam Ibrahim, 37, who came to the United States 16 years ago from Egypt and owns a limousine company in Jersey City, said he and others in similar circumstances moved here in search of better lives and are proud to be Americans.
"It is impossible," he said of suggestions that a terrorist cell in or around Jersey City may have helped plot the deadly attacks last week. "People here from the Middle East just want to work and have good lives. I love the United States. I eat in the United States. I earn money in the United States, and my children go to schools in the United States. A lot of people in this Arab community feel like me."
Investigators said at least two of the hijackers, Nawaq Al Hamzi and Salem Al Hamzi, are believed to have had addresses in Wayne and Fort Lee. They apparently rented a mail box in Fort Lee, at Mail Boxes Etc.
In Jersey City, within hours of two jetliners' plowing into the World Trade Center, law enforcement authorities detained and questioned a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks and holding tailgate-style parties on rooftops while they watched the devastation on the other side of the river.
Over the weekend, authorities raided a small apartment building in Jersey City to search an apartment rented by two men who were detained in Texas on Wednesday, on possible immigration violations. Mohammed Jaweed Azmath, 47, and Ayub Ali Khan, 51, both from India, were taken into custody Wednesday on an Amtrak train in Texas, carrying $5,000 in cash, hair dye and box cutter knives -- weapons said to have been used by the hijackers. During the raids in Jersey City, authorities detained a third man, Abdoul Salam Achou, 37, whose visa application allegedly expired on Sept. 1.
Investigators also detained three men in Elizabeth, N.J., who were carrying a large amount of cash and a one-way ticket to Syria. The three men, Ahmad Kilfat, 45, Mohammad Mahmoud Al Raqqad, 37, and Nicholas Makrakis, 27, were in a red Pontiac that matched an FBI description of a vehicle connected with the attacks.
Yemina Barbosa, 46, who lives across the street from the three-story apartment house on Tulip Street in Passaic, N.J. -- a mostly black and Latino neighborhood where Kilfat and Al Raqqad were thought to live -- said expensive, "sporty" cars would often park in front of the house.
Neighbors said a car that they believed belongs to the two men was towed tonight from in front of the apartment house, after the vehicle was examined by a bomb squad.
How do you think Trump was commuting to and from the
Trump World Tower, a 72-story residential tower across from the United Nations Headquarters ?
Do you really think he was in a limo going to and from all his hotels ?
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posted on
11/24/2015 11:32:47 AM PST
by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
To: Clint N. Suhks
You are aware that Palin never said that, aren't you? Those are the words of Tina Fey. Even the lefties at Snopes admit that Palin never said that.
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posted on
11/24/2015 11:37:09 AM PST
by
Fresh Wind
(Falcon 105)
To: sakic
Well, you would NOT believe it, even if you saw it.
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Published on Jan 18, 2014
9/11 day unfolds in 18 minutes (NEW REVISED VERSION).
Graphic video for educational purposes only.
Most footage never aired on TV or only on that day.
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9/11 Terrorist Attack,
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This video includes copyrighted material
"For purpose of criticism, education, news reporting"
In accordance with: US Copyright Code - Title 17, Section 107 - Fair Use Clause
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posted on
11/24/2015 11:43:39 AM PST
by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
To: Stentor
Haha.....good one... Right there with you!
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posted on
11/24/2015 11:46:40 AM PST
by
Gaffer
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