perhaps the candidate was simply overstating the matter.
dozens arent hundreds and hundreds arent thousands and thousand.
that seems the most likely deal here.
"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."--Washington Post, September 18, 2001
"...and we did have some celebrating, that is true. We had pockets of celebrations, some in Queens, some in Brooklyn, - 10, 12, 30, 40 ...we had one situation in which we had a candy store owned by a muslim family was celebrating that day, right near a housing development. Kids in the housing came in and beat them up. Both facts were corroborated as being true. They were celebrating that the towers had come down and some of the kids in the housing development got really upset about it and they came in and did a pretty good job of beating them up."
All the time, I hear liberals say that the Inquisition killed “millions” of people, whereas the figure is more like 8-20 thousand, over a very long period of time. Nothing to be proud of, but far short of “millions.”
I think he was lumping the celebration world wide as thousands - not just from NJ.
So—Trump was right—only error in the numbers of people cheering. If not Thousands—Hundreds. They overlook the fact that even a dozen would have been too much. The MSM were ordered to put a damper on the story by the US Government—and wisely so— I remember those days after 9-11. If this had gotten out Mosques would have been burned—people killed etc... So we had Bush say Islam is a religion of preace rather than have a bloodbath.
Kind of like when Obama said "if you like your doctor" and it turned out we couldn't keep our doctors, or "the average family of four will save $2500 a year" and Obamacare turned out to cost the average family an extra $3000 a year for less medical care, or when Obama said he was "the most pro-Israel president in history" when he's the most antisemitic occupant of our White House in history. Overstatements from democrats get a pass, while comments from republicans get viciously attacked, even when they are true.
