Donald Trump’s trousers on Fire claim about cheering after September 11, 2001
“There are going to be people that respond inappropriately”, he said, adding that characterizing all Muslims as “bad people” because of the alleged reaction would be a stretch.
And Trump said he would bring back waterboarding, an interrogation tactic that he said “is peanuts compared to what they’re doing to us”. We have the laws already on the books as far as Second Amendment for guns, and as you know I’m a big, big, really big proponent of the Second Amendment. “I really think that would be a stretch”.
“We had a murderous dictator, Gadhafi, who had American blood on his hands, as I’m sure you remember, threatening to massacre large numbers of the Libyan people”, Clinton said during the first Democratic debate.
‘I want a watch list for the Syrian refugees that (President Barack) Obama’s going to let in if we don’t stop him as Republicans, ‘ he said.
Trump repeated the assertion Sunday in an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s ‘This Week, ‘ as Stephanopoulos explained to Trump that police had refuted any such rumors at the time. Hours later, Watts issued a written statement that Carson was citing news reports of Muslims cheering overseas.
Jersey City’s Democratic mayor, Steven Fulop, also called out Trump.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., did the best against Clinton, defeating her 50-42 percent.
Trump leads with 28 percent, a record slice of the pie in the 2016 Republican presidential primary.
I suppose it can happen to anyone.
A Pew poll shows that candidates like Trump who seem to have a personal battle with the government have every political reason to do so, says CNN. “What I get concerned about, Brooke, is the growth of Islamophobia in this country, the desire to win votes by scapegoating a group of people, which is not what America is supposed to be about”.
He said he’d had trouble hearing the NBC reporter’s questions. Trump replied: ‘I would certainly implement that. But with Trump still on top, Cruz may be looking to create more distance between them soon.
Christie said, “I’ve said all along he’ll be as serious a candidate as he wants to be”.
Trump first made the claim at a Birmingham, Alabama, rally on Saturday.
“We did a lot of shoe leather reporting in and around Jersey City and talked to a lot of residents and officials for the broader story”.
The burning issue of national security has taken a stronger place in voters’ minds on the heels of a NY Times article that quoted a Carson adviser, Duane Clarridge, as expressing concern about the candidate’s foreign policy competence.
TRUMP: – out of hundreds of people (INAUDIBLE)… While a few of the presidential candidates are now boldly promoting American soldiers on the ground in Syria and Iraq to battle ISIS, Trump resonates with voters when he says he would “bomb the sh**” out of ISIS.
Republican presidential contenders split Sunday on a proposal to ban individuals on a terror watch list from buying guns, with front-runner Donald Trump backing the measure and Ben Carson opposing it.