Donald Trump says Muslims in Jersey City cheered on 9/11
A new NBC News/SurveyMonkey online poll shows that Donald Trump is back in the lead (28%) among Republican primary voters. A search of news accounts from that period shows no reports of mass cheering in Jersey City.
“Trump is plain wrong, and he is shamefully politicizing an emotionally charged issue”, said Fulop. But a persistent Internet rumor of Muslims celebrating in Paterson, N.J., was discounted by police officials at the time.
Ibrahim Hooper, national communications director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said it would be “interesting” if Trump had personally seen the cheering, since it “didn’t happen”.
“That is totally false”. “That never happened. There were no flags burning, no one was dancing”. Following him were New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (4%), former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina (4%) and Kentucky Sen.
I drove with family members though Patterson, N.J. that morning, after the planes hit.
“You first have to have good reason to believe that there’s something going on” before using blanket surveillance measures on Muslims, Carson told The Hill in an exclusive interview Sunday.
At this point in the presidential election cycle, political journalists everywhere should seriously consider bookmarking Wikipedia’s page listing every conspiracy theory known to man, because Donald Trump just resurfaced a new one: that Muslims in New Jersey celebrated the 9/11 attacks shortly after the World Trade Center towers collapsed.
Asked what Trump meant by his tweet Monday, Lewandowski said: “He wants to be treated fairly”. “Absolutely”, he said when asked about the idea.
The retired neurosurgeon addressed the need for increased surveillance of people in the United States during an appearance about an hour west of Las Vegas.
Florida Senator Marco Rubio is the only other candidate registering in double-digits from among the crowded GOP field at 11 percent.
“I don’t think the approach is sufficient to the job”, said Feinstein, the leading Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee. A video of that nature, fact checkers agree, does not exist.
The ADL also criticized Republican presidential candidates Sen.
“If you’ve got a bowl with five grapes in it and three of them are bad you’re not going to eat any of the grapes because they could be really bad”, said Gibson Gray of Blountsville, Alabama.
In addition to the pro-Kasich and Trump Card groups, the super PAC associated with the fiscal conservative Club for Growth is trying to raise money to resume anti-Trump ads, after running a reported $1 million worth earlier this year in Iowa.