"Investigators said at least two of the hijackers, Nawaq Al Hamzi and Salem Al Hamzi are believed to have had addresses in Wayne and Fort Lee, NJ. The apparently rented a mailbox in Fort Lee at Mailboxes Etc. in Jersey City within hours of two jetliners plowing into the World Trade Center. Law enforcement authorities detained and questioned a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks and holding tailgate-style parties on rooftops while they watched the devastation on the other side of the river."
See the archived page here:
http://www.barenakedislam.com/2015/11/23/the-washington-post-confirmed-donald-trumps-remarks-about-seeing-muslims-in-nj-celebrating-911/
He saw them cheering not thousands but these anilmals were cheering.
Perhaps Trump is confusing this news story with another video that was circulated showing some Arabs celebrating in Palestine,
Michael Medved reported on Somalis in Seattle celebrating
Cable news will run endless video loops of footage that supports whatever story they’re telling at the moment.
Example: Currently they run footage of Syrian refugees swarming Europe during a story about them coming to the US.
I remember the TV news reports, and a lot of other people do too, but I don't recall any video of celebrations in New Jersey, though there was plenty from overseas. It would have been easy to get the location mixed up, given what the networks were saying and showing.
As to whether it happened or not, that's harder to say. You can't prove a negative and there are people in Paterson, who claim to have seen such celebrations, not large scale and not likely to attrack major attention, but still happening.
It's like people telling you that no Vietnam veteran was ever spat on. Not one? Not ever? When people remember incidents clearly? It's may be be hard to prove it happened, but it's impossible to prove it never happened.
If this wasn't a "gaffe" it's brilliant on Trump's part, making the media who attack him the guilty partner responsible for comments that they usually object to.
I’m no Trump fan, but you know what? I really don’t care if the Muslims were celebrating in Gaza and Trump confused it with New Jersey. That’s splitting hairs, let’s focus on the more important fact that MUSLIMS WERE CELEBRATING 9/11!
This is all the GOPe and other candidates way of getting Trump out of the way....
Only problem is, with us Trump supporters, we will NOT vote for anyone other than TRUMP, so you take your candidate and run them up against Hillary and let her in the White House...
Those are your choices....we’ve made ours: TRUMP POTUS....
It seems to me that all they have to do is go on youtube and download the clips.
A pathetic, unimportant issue gets blown way out of proportion in an attempt to take Trump down. Worst of all are the supporters of other candidates who are pimping this BS so maybe, just maybe, their guy will finally take his rightful place on the thrown. Obviously the other candidates are missing something or they would be at the top.
It happened in Europe also.
A friend was at a children’s soccer league practice when it was announced and the Muslims who had brought their kids went nuts. They were screaming and hollering and praising Allah.
Fourteen years later, we have no record, therefore it didn't happen. Nice loop.
There is more going on with the Trump 9/11 stories than just trying to defeat Trump.
This is an Orwellian tactic designed to further the lie that the Media is the Keeper of The Truth. If the Media does not report it, it is not The Truth. When someone challenges the Media with facts, the Media doubles down by changing the narrative:
* During a lengthy stump speech, Trump makes a comment about watching as thousands of Muslims in New Jersey cheered on 9/11.
* The Media says this is a lie.
* Trump doubles down, saying he saw people celebrating in New Jersey, and that there were Muslims cheering 9/11 around the world.
* Media calls this an obfuscation, as if he is trying to parse his words and disconnect “thousands” from those cheering in New Jersey.
* People access their own memories and remember that they say footage of Muslims cheering on 9/11, too.
* The Media says “That was footage of one Mosque in the Middle East and Islam is ROP, etc., so Trump lied.”
* Article surfaces about Police investigating reports of Muslims cheering 9/11 in New Jersey.
* The Media says “But it wasn’t ‘thousands and thousands’ like Trump claimed so Trump lied.”
* Most people generally remember seeing pictures of lots of people who looked like Muslims cheering 9/11, despite every Media outlet slamming Trump as lying.
* This article comes out and says maybe Trump wasn’t lying-lying, but only making things up in his head and lying about them.
* Other Media commentaries come out saying that Trump is lying, but even if he isn’t lying, it’s irresponsible for him to raise these issues not.
The same sort of word-parsing and debating is going on about whether or not Trump actually, literally saw people jumping from the WTC on 9/11 from his apartment with his own eyes, drilling down into whether or not he has a telescope in his apartment.
The aim here is to get people lost in the forest and make them forget about the trees. The facts are indisputable: Muslims around the world celebrated on 9/11; and people jumped from the WTC rather than burn to death.
This is also priming to pump to set Trump up as a “liar” or untrustworthy for something in the future. My bet is that the Media has something with more substance that they think is a “gotcha” for Trump, so they are sowing these seeds now. I predict we will see little things like this all the way up to a November surprise where they try to characterize him as having lied “like Bush” on something much more significant (at least, in their opinion).
The next lie from these democrats will be that 9/11 itself never happened!
WaPo....about as factual as Dan Rather.
There is a good chance Trump is nuts