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News: Trump lies about Arabs cheering in Jersey City after 9/11
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Trump lies about Arabs cheering in Jersey City after 9/11
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GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: You raised some eyebrows yesterday with comments you made at your latest rally. I want to show them, relating to 9/11.
VIDEO CLIP OF DONALD TRUMP, IN WHICH HE SAYS: “Hey, I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down. And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down. Thousands of people were cheering.”
STEPHANOPOULOS: “You know, the police say that didn’t happen and all those rumors have been on the Internet for some time. So did you misspeak yesterday?”
TRUMP: “It did happen. I saw it.”
STEPHANOPOULOS: “You saw that…”
TRUMP: It was on television. I saw it.
STEPHANOPOULOS: “…with your own eyes?”
TRUMP: “George, it did happen.”
STEPHANOPOULOS: “Police say it didn’t happen.”
TRUMP: “There were people that were cheering on the other side of New Jersey, where you have large Arab populations. They were cheering as the World Trade Center came down. I know it might be not politically correct for you to talk about it, but there were people cheering as that building came down — as those buildings came down. And that tells you something. It was well covered at the time, George. Now, I know they don’t like to talk about it, but it was well covered at the time. There were people over in New Jersey that were watching it, a heavy Arab population, that were cheering as the buildings came down. Not good.”
STEPHANOPOULOS: “As I said, the police have said it didn’t happen.”
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Trump has already earned more Four-Pinocchio ratings than any other candidate this year. He is about to earn another one.
This exchange demonstrates the folly of trying to fact-check Donald Trump. Even when confronted with contrary information — “police say it didn’t happen” — he insists that with his own eyes he saw “thousands and thousands” of cheering Arabs in New Jersey celebrating as the World Trade Center collapsed during the Sept. 11 attacks.
This is a bit like writing about the hole in the doughnut — how can you write about nothing?
Trump says that he saw this with his own eyes on television and that it was well covered. But an extensive examination of news clips from that period turns up nothing. There were some reports of celebrations overseas, in Muslim countries, but nothing that we can find involving the Arab populations of New Jersey except for unconfirmed reports. As the Newark Star-Ledger put it in an article on Sept. 18, 2001, “rumors of rooftop celebrations of the attack by Muslims here proved unfounded.”
Neither can we find any examples of Trump previously talking about this. Here, for example, is an article in the New York Post interviewing Trump just eight days after the attack; he makes no mention of having witnessed the alleged celebrations. And in a foreword for a book titled “Where Were You On 9/11?,” Trump makes no mention of this: “I was in my apartment in the Trump Tower [on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001]. I knew what was happening because I can see downtown to the Financial district.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...e-911-attacks/
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the other side of New Jersey, where you have large Arab populations.
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Um... this a lie right here. Jersey City only has like 12,000 Arab people and most of them are Christians.
BUT Jersey City is full of Indians and other South Asians so maybe that's what he and the dumb conservatives were trying with the stories of "Arabs," which is an even bigger fail. 
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People should be more understanding of senior citizens 
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moron 
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Saw this on CNN today. 
He's an idiot and it just goes to show that the GOP is the biggest joke, especially between Trump, Carson, and Palin.
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Carson claims he saw the same video then later apoligized, took it back and said he confused the words "New Jersey" with "Middle East"
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Originally posted by Priyanka Chopra
Um... this a lie right here. Jersey City only has like 12,000 Arab people and most of them are Christians.
BUT Jersey City is full of Indians and other South Asians so maybe that's what he and the dumb conservatives were trying with the stories of "Arabs," which is an even bigger fail. |
Expose that mofo.
He is indeed the American Goebbels.
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Wait I read he article.
BlueTimberwolf is Trump your girl? Explain!
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This man has attacked every racial/ethnic minority in the nastiest ways possible. Still, somehow he is still ahead of the other republican candidates. What does that say about our country? This ******** that some people spew, saying that he "tells it like it is" and that we need to "stop being so PC" is no more than an excuse to express racist views without facing repercussions.
We are headed down a very ugly road.
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Originally posted by RatedG²
Wait I read he article.
BlueTimberwolf is Trump your girl? Explain!
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TRUMP: “There were people that were cheering on the other side of New Jersey, where you have large Arab populations. They were cheering as the World Trade Center came down. I know it might be not politically correct for you to talk about it, but there were people cheering as that building came down — as those buildings came down. And that tells you something. It was well covered at the time, George. Now, I know they don’t like to talk about it, but it was well covered at the time. There were people over in New Jersey that were watching it, a heavy Arab population, that were cheering as the buildings came down. Not good.”
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why did he just say the same thing over and over here? bitch you LYING.
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Originally posted by LuLuDrops
Carson claims he saw the same video then later apoligized, took it back and said he confused the words "New Jersey" with "Middle East" |
this needs its own thread 
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Originally posted by Delilah.
why did he just say the same thing over and over here? bitch you LYING.
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I was gonna say the same thing 
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Originally posted by Priyanka Chopra
Um... this a lie right here. Jersey City only has like 12,000 Arab people and most of them are Christians.
BUT Jersey City is full of Indians and other South Asians so maybe that's what he and the dumb conservatives were trying with the stories of "Arabs," which is an even bigger fail. |
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Then Carson trying to jump on the bandwagon (see the other thread)
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