Posted on 11/24/2015 1:25:42 PM PST by SeekAndFind
There's a difference between a lie and an honest mistake. However slight, it's a crucial distinction in politics, and especially in the campaign of Donald Trump.
On Saturday, the real-estate magnate insisted that after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, he watched news footage of "thousands of thousands of people" celebrating in northern New Jersey -- "where you have large Arab populations," in his words.
Journalists have searched news archives for any evidence of such footage and turned up empty handed. Public officials and law enforcement in New Jersey say Trump's account is utterly false.
But Trump's assertion might not be a bald-faced lie. Psychologists suggest that people unconsciously fabricate memories all the time, and that Trump might have done the same.
"I can't say that he's not lying," said Deryn Strange, a psychologist at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. "But my research, and the research of my colleagues, certainly supports a more charitable interpretation: that this is a false memory."
There is a well-circulated video clip of Palestinians celebrating the attacks in the West Bank, as The Washington Post's Glenn Kessler has reported. Newspapers, including The Post, stated that police had detained some people in northern New Jersey who were allegedly partying on rooftops and watching the mayhem in New York. The Newark Star-Ledger later reported that “rumors of rooftop celebrations of the attack by Muslims here proved unfounded."
Trump might have conflated the two in his mind. "I can easily conceive how he could have developed this memory," Strange said. "All you need is a suggestion."
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Because HE DID.
We all did. From the West Bank, Baghdad, Hamtramck/Dearborn and New Jersey.
Well no. The Washington Post printed a story that police in New Jersey had investigated reports that people where cheering the twin towers collapse, but no arrests were made. Trump claimed he had seen thousands and thousands of Muslims in New Jersey cheering the attack.
Ministry of Truth stuff. They just forgot to burn all the papers.
Just the New Jersey part.
He’s saying it because it happened.
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Why?
Maybe because we all saw it?
Here is FR from that day. Trump’s people ought to look at and a few pages after to see if there is any reference
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/news-forum/index?more=520374
RE: a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks
Well, they always have an out. They used the word “allegedly”.
Here’s another source...
Text can be hightlighted and copied.
Except the WaPo actually printed a story in 2001 after 09-11 confirming his statement
Why do these people openly defend someone that thats them and wants them to die?
Who does that?
Liberalism is a MENTAL DISORDER.
I was 34 when this happened. I remember seeing the footage I think Mr. trump is referring to It had interviews of Muslims all happy about the towers going down and was initially reported as local in New Jersey but it turned out to be footage from the west bank and Egypt. instead of searching the archives in a normal search I think the footage would be found by doing a strait viewing of the local reporting at the time. the reason why was that it never got recorded in the archives that it was footage from New jersey instead it is listed as West bank and Egyptian footage.
So do I, this is common knowledge here in the New York, New Jersey area
The media here telling us we are wrong when we remember clearly what happened is just insulting
It is like they are trying to re-write a “pro muslim” history here
Except the WaPo actually printed a story in 2001 after 09-11 confirming his statement about Muslim celebrating in NJ.
There was plenty of video footage of Muslims joyously celebrating the 9/11 attacks including dancing in the streets, constant shouting of Allah Akbar,!and handing out sweet cakes and other treats and doing the trilling la la la la victory cry that Arabs do.
It was so bad in Gaza that Yasser Arafat had to send Fatah thugs in to stop the celebrations, seize the cameras of the foreign reporters and threaten to kill them if they aired the footage or reported the celebration
Knowing he was facing a PR disaster of epic proportions with the American public Arafat then went to a hospital to be filmed donating blood to send to New York hospitals .
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