Rudy Giuliani: People Did Celebrate After 9/11 But Trump is Exaggerating the
Meanwhile, former New York Mayor Rudy Guiliani wouldn’t go as far as calling Trump a liar, instead saying he is “exaggerating” the situation.
‘Well, I think what he’s doing is exaggerating, right?’ Giuliani said.
He said in one specific report which was later proved to be true, owners of a sweet shop were celebrating and children from a nearby housing development “beat them up”.
“There has been no jubilee in the streets”, Marty Barnes, mayor of Paterson, New Jersey, said in a press conference at the time, which is excerpted in the MTV documentary.
I saw people getting together and in fairly large numbers celebrating as the World Trade Center was coming down, killing thousands of people.
Trump has cited a few articles and TV coverage that mentioned celebrations, but some of those news organizations say they reported the allegations, but did not come across evidence that the celebrations happened.
‘Because let him deal with it. Let him explain it to people. “If it doesn’t show up it’s going to make him look really bad”.
MTV named its new video: “Trump Is Wrong About People “Cheering” 9/11 in New Jersey – Here’s the Evidence”.
And a September 18, 2001, story from The Washington Post wrote, “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”.
The former Republican mayor was New York City’s leader during the attacks.