Fact check: Trump, Carson on 9/11 ‘celebrations’

Nonetheless, Nyhan said it would be wrong to diminish the value of fact-checking the political candidates. In fact, Trump said that he has now received “hundreds of phone calls” from people who say they, too, saw the celebrations and lashed out at the “liberal media” for refusing to corroborate his claims.

Cohen also pointed to social media as backing up Trump, saying an immeasurable number of Trump’s “millions and millions of followers” on social media have said they recall seeing the same thing.

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.

“Whether it’s thousands and thousands or 1,000 people or even just 1 person, it’s irrelevant”. Tuesday, Trump is sticking by his story and his supporters are sticking by him.

“This was not handled the way Bernie Sanders handled his problem, I will tell you that”, Trump continued.

He’s followed by Cruz (73% view him favorably while 15% see him unfavorably), Rubio (70% to 18%) and Trump (59% to 34%).

The mayor of Jersey City has also come out against Trump’s claim. Reporter: But the newspaper now claiming the allegations were never proven.

In another FiveThirtyEight post, David Wasserman explains why if the race comes down to a battle between a more moderate candidate like Marco Rubio or Carly Fiorina and a more ideologically extreme candidate like Trump and Ben Carson, the more moderate candidate will have the upper hand.

“I don’t know if on the basis of that you can say all Muslims are bad people”. “We know it happened”.

GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump was blasted by journalists after apparently mocking a reporter’s disability during a campaign speech. “People are going to look at who has the skills, the talent, the heart and the spine”.

“Not sure what luxury spider-hole @realDonaldTrump was hiding in on Sept 11 but I saw Americans come together that day”, Pataki posted Sunday on Twitter. But let the local police go in and check out and you get rid of this stuff.

“The real greatest resource is all of you, because you have all those eyes and you see what’s happening”, he told listeners in Myrtle Beach, S.C”.

The CIA has claimed the method was effective in helping interrogators draw information from 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.