Donald Trump Claims He Predicted Terrorism Ahead of 9/11 Attacks

In the wake of the terror attacks in Paris and the ensuing hysteria he helped whip up, Trump has amped up his anti-Muslim rhetoric on the campaign trail by invoking 9/11 to paint Muslim Americans as suspicious, terrorist sympathizers or outright terrorists. Trump’s support is based on a political outsider defying the deceit of the political establishment, yet Trump does not seem to see the deceit he projects when he seems to seems to say whatever he wants to say without respect for the truth.

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“As I said before if that had happened, I’d recall it and I don’t”, he told Baier.

Never mind that “terrorism”, both radical-Islamic and otherwise, had already existed well before then – including the bombing of New York City’s World Trade Center in 1993 by al-Qaeda-linked fundamentalists.

The Anti-Defamation League said Trump’s account was “factually challenged” and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said he had no recollection of that happening.

Cuomo and Cohen did not discuss Trump’s claim on Monday that he was able to see people jumping from the World Trade Centers from his home more than 4 miles uptown.

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Spartanburg, South Carolina, November 20, 2015.

“I could have said: ‘Oh, I misspoke.’ I’m not big on that, am I?”

“I saw the film of it, yeah.”

Trump first said on Saturday that Arab people cheered on 9/11 speaking at a rally in Birmingham, Alabama. The New York Times called the mockery “outrageous” in a statement to Politico, and disgust for Trump quickly mounted on social media, including from Republicans and Trump fans.

Jersey City mayor, Steven Fulop, criticised Trump.

The Washington Post has already responded to Trump’s use of the 2001 story as a source for his claims.