Trump says he saw people celebrating 9/11 in Jersey City, NJ

Trump did back away from comments on closing mosques.

Donald Trump says he would return to strong interrogation techniques such as waterboarding if he were elected United States president because their severity pales against Isil. “A lot of people understand it. We’re going to have no choice, there’s absolutely no choice”.

Wayne MacDonald, a former New Hampshire GOP chairman who’s backing Gov. Chris Christie said he hopes Trump will follow through on the pledge he signed in September not to run as an independent.

The first reference to a database came in a Trump interview with Yahoo News published Thursday when he was asked about requiring Muslims to register in a database or carry a form of special identification noting their religion. He added, “there is no one in this race who has been tougher on radical Islamic terrorism than I’ve been”.

Trump’s @realDonaldTrump Twitter account highlighted a photograph featuring a dark-skinned man wearing a bandana, a dark shirt and military-style trousers and holding a handgun sideways and claiming to list 2015 crime statistics.

“I would certainly implement that”.

Facing considerable blowback, Trump said he thought he’d been asked about the wall on the US border with Mexico – an issue that has been the cornerstone of Trump’s campaign from its conception.

Trump’s tweet comes the day after a Black Lives Matter protester at a speech of his in Birmingham, Alabama, was thrown to the ground and kicked by the Republican front-runner’s supporters. He explained that he was originally “referring to the wall, but database is OK”. I want to surveil mosques. I want mosques surveilled. It’s home to the second-largest Muslim population in the US, after MI, and is tied with IL for having the second-most mosques, with 109 as of 2011, And that lead to a secret surveillance program launched by the NY City Police Department afterf 9/11 to monitor mosques and Muslim communities in the NY and Jersey City area, says The New Jersey. “They were cheering as the World Trade Center came down”, he told ABC News. “Thousands of people were cheering”, he told Saturday’s rally.

“It did happen. I saw it. It was on television”.

Although New Jersey police has denied Trump’s accusations as stated by Stephanopoulos, the billionaire insisted in saying that it did happen and “he saw it”. And if those assumptions are true, one wonders whether the New Jersey Republican will soon look back at this period and wonder what might have happened if he’d shown a little more courage.