Not good.Īfter Trump was widely criticized for attempting to pass off an urban legend as fact, the candidate responded by citing as proof of his claim an 18 September 2001 Washington Post article by reporter Serge Kovaleski that made passing reference to "people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks": There were people over in New Jersey that were watching it, a heavy Arab population, that were cheering as the buildings came down. Now, I know they don't like to talk about it, but it was well covered at the time. I know it might be not politically correct for you to talk about it, but there were people cheering as that building came down - as those buildings came down. They were cheering as the World Trade Center came down. There were people that were cheering on the other side of New Jersey, where you have large Arab populations. Shortly afterwards, defending his remarks during an appearance on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Trump maintained: And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down. I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down. Trump referenced the Paris attacks by invoking the 9/11 terrorist attack on New York in 2001, in the process not only repeating the long since debunked claim that crowds of "Arabs" (or "Muslims" or "Palestinians") were seen in local streets cheering the attack, but claiming that he had personally witnessed the phenomenon: In November 2015, shortly after a series of coordinated terrorist attacks occurred in Paris, France, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was on the campaign trail in Alabama.
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