Trump Said American Muslims Cheered on 9/11. Now Ben Carson Weighs In

Trump over the weekend and through Monday repeatedly said that he saw on TV American Muslims in New Jersey celebrating on September 11, 2001, as the Twin Towers fell, a claim that fact-checking publications have called false. “You know, they don’t use waterboarding over there – they use chopping off people’s heads”.

Monday’s rally drew 14,000 people.

Donald Trump won’t stop talking about 9/11. “They’re coming from a certain part of the world with a certain philosophy”, Trump said.

And, again to cheers, Trump embraced an interrogation method now classified as torture.

“Would I approve waterboarding?” “Believe me, it works”.

A new poll indicates that Donald Trump has regained a slight lead in Iowa, with Ted Cruz very close behind and Ben Carson moving down. “We know if there’s something going on, report them. On the other side, they build these iron cages and they’ll put 20 people in them and they drop them in the ocean for 15 minutes, and pull them up 15 minutes later”, Trump said.

Trump and Kasich have been feuding since last week, when New Day for America, a super PAC supporting Kasich, said it would spend $2.5 million on ads challenging Trump’s readiness to be commander in chief.

The mayor of Jersey City has also come out against Trump’s claim.

“All it was is a re-tweet – it wasn’t from me – and it … came out of a radio show and other places”, he said.

“Within hours of two jetliners plowing into the World Trade Center”, Trump said, reading from the article, “law enforcement authorities detained and questioned a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks”. “If they break that agreement with him, as they say ‘woe be on them, ‘” Cohen told CNN. But he highlights another line in the same story. Tailgate! That means football games, Ohio State. Thousands of people were cheering. “We know it happened”. “A lot of ’em were cheering, especially over in the Middle East”. Despite winning in Iowa, their campaigns faltered as the nomination contest moved to New Hampshire and larger states.

Johnson connects that moment to today’s fight with ISIS – and to the Syrian refugees hoping to settle in the U.S.

When he faced pushback on his dubious claim during the recent Fox Business debate that “the Chinese are there” in Syria, Carson said at subsequent press conference that he’d never made the initial assertion: “I never said that they were”, he said during a Nevada press conference last week. “Nothing wrong with that”.

“And you might not care if Donald Trump says he’s going to round up all the Hispanic immigrants, because you’re not one”, he adds.

The usual suspects like Marco Rubio also claimed it didn’t happen, though perhaps he didn’t see the video.