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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I’m sure with those big windows he has at least one telescope or something like it.
I actually remember those appalling, outrageous stories!
I sat glued to our TV’s (plural) for days and nights on end.
The little granddaughter we were raising was not yet 2 years old and I was with her 24/7. My husband, -— the late Dr.O -— and I raised her until she was 6 years old (when we moved from San Diego to Mississippi). She continues to spend her vacation time with me.
In fact, she is lying on the couch next to me, right now, having just turned 16! She is spending her High School Thanksgiving Vacation with me and we went through family photos last night, which include some still photos of her in front of screen shots of 9/11 TV!
I guess I took those photos so she would know that she was alive and watching that historic tragedy with me for at least one solid week. She is thrilled to have those photos now.
Her first words were: “GEORGE BUSH” because I always watched the political stuff on Fox News, and she was born on the last day of all ‘odd numbers’ for several hundred years - 11/19/1999.
In two of the photos, (taken later on) she is standing in front of the big TV while GEORGE BUSH is holding that megaphone telling those workers that the whole world will soon hear from us. Great photo!
You mistake that I’d settle for a status quo GOPe quisling. Never. Jeb Bush under NO circumstances. Marco Rubio or a John Kasich, either.
I would never condescend to imply you did not think - yet you did. Think about that.
OK. Then the media cant make the assumption that he couldn’t see. but they will.
Thanks very much, and you’re absolutely correct, dearest LS!
MSM and the GOPe will have to find another subject if they’re going to try to paint Mr. Trump a liar.
On this topic, they have failed. AGAIN!
Thank you driftdiver....very well said
Then why can’t anyone produce a video?
You can choose to believe the pompous liar, but the facts prove Trump and you wrong.
I live in NYC and I remember reports of some Muslims cheering the WTC. It was rumored but never proven and was absolutely never shown on television. Your friends are liars, too.
We all saw it. We all know it happened. We all know it’s true. We watched in on tv in real time.
The issue is that Trump is claiming that he saw it firsthand from four miles away. Superman, super eyesight?
Didn’t Hillary claim something about Chelsea being endangered, another self-serving effort to make it about herself?
I would think binoculars would be standard equipment in a tower like that. Someone not having them would be more uncommon. Probably like reading glasses. Who says, “I read a book last night with my reading glasses?
So is Trump your absolute only acceptable candidate? Serious question, because I find your allegiance interesting.
Is this what people are getting their panties in a wad over? Haters are upset Trump talked about something that actually happened?
I can still remember where I was in my car when the news came across the radio. I can't imagine what it would be like being in New York at that time and watching from a distance.
I mean it's not like he claimed he tried to get into the marines, or flew into a country under sniper fire.
Sheesh, people get mental over strange stuff.
For crying out loud. I saw people jump from Ohio. It’s called TV, jerks.
Also, I used to have REALLY good eyes — could read the second to the bottom (20/10) line of the eye chart easily and part of the bottom line. Not so good now (getting older sucks, but beats the alternative). Can still see people about 1 mile away. Incidentally, the max for someone with perfect vision to make out a human-sized object is about 2 miles.
Give me binoculars, and 4 miles is easy.
Or again, there is this thing called TV...
See my post #75....I’ve never hidden that.
Lots of people have a tendency to blend related points when speaking on a specific topic. Trump does this. Being on the receiving end of that can be confusing sometimes.
Then there are those who seize upon it and twist it to mean something not implied, Megyn Kelly et al.
That is why Trump sometimes clarifies.
A decent pair of binoculars or a telescope on a tripod would have made it possible to see the WTC jumpers.
Some studies say that someone with perfect vision can make out human-sized objects at about 2 miles. The human form is uniquely identifiable by the visual processing centers of the brain, so that’s probably about the max.
PS Sorry, too busy to Google the studies, and this I off of memory, so may not be correct. Just my recollection.
Game over.
Fox is not worth watching.
If I had the same views as Trump had of NYC, there would be telescopes in every room or at least a few benoculars handy.
From the top of the hill behind our house we can see the towers on the electric plant on the Ohio river 50 miles away. Four miles is really not far -—”on a clear day you can see forever”
It was a beautiful clear blue sky on 9-11
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