Donald Trump Insists People In New Jersey Were Cheering When 9/11 Happened

On Sunday, Trump said: “I don’t want to close mosques; I want to surveil mosques”.

Donald Trump has backtracked from his support for a government database to track Muslims in the United States – an idea that drew sharp criticism from his Republican presidential rivals and disbelief from legal experts.

After touting his strong approval numbers in recent polls on how he would handle the economy and lead the country, Trump stated that voters also “love him on terrorism”, to which the crowd erupted in applause.

“He doesn’t stand behind his comments to New Jersey and American Muslims”, campaign spokesman Doug Watts said.

“Somebody like Jeb, and others that are running against me – and by the way Hillary is another one; I mean, Hillary is a person who doesn’t have the strength or the stamina, in my opinion, to be president”, Trump said.

“I agree that there’s no such thing as political correctness when you’re fighting an enemy who wants to destroy you and everything that you have anything to do with”. There are no stories or video that anyone has yet been able to turn up, even though Trump said he saw the celebrations on television and that it was “well covered” at the time.

Trump, who has been advocating a bullish – if vague – approach to foreign policy, declared, “Only a stupid person would say it doesn’t work”.

The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment asking how Trump witnessed people jumping out of the Twin Towers from more than four miles away. And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down.

We conducted an exhaustive search of newspaper and television transcripts on LexisNexis, looking for reports from September 2001 through December 2001 that made any mention of Muslims in New Jersey celebrating the 9/11 attacks.

“Either @realDonaldTrump has memory issues or willfully distorts the truth, either of which should be concerning for the Republican Party”, Democratic Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop tweeted Sunday. There were people over in New Jersey that were watching it, a heavy Arab population, that were cheering as the buildings came down.

Both Politifact and The Washington Post’s Fact Checker analyzed Trump’s claim. “I think waterboarding is peanuts compared to what they’d do to us”, he said. According to Eric, one of these women told a news reporter that she was celebrating the death of people in the attacks, and she was in the country on an academic scholarship.

Trump also stoked fears among the Republican Party that if he does not capture the party’s nomination, he will seek a third-party run for president.