Washington – Trump Says He Saw People Celebrating 9/11 In Jersey City

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    Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop Saturday, Nov. 21, 2015, in Birmingham, Ala. (AP Photo/Eric Schultz)Washington – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says he saw people cheering the Sept. 11 attacks across the river in New Jersey — a claim officials strongly deny.

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    Trump first told the story Saturday at a rally in Birmingham, Alabama, as he pressed the need for greater surveillance, including monitoring certain mosques, in the wake of the Paris attacks.

    “I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down. And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down. Thousands of people were cheering,” Trump said Saturday at a rally in Birmingham, Alabama.

    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.

    “It did happen. I saw it,” said Trump. “It was on television. I saw it.”

    “There were people that were cheering on the other side of New Jersey, where you have large Arab populations. They were cheering as the World Trade Center came down,” he said.

    “I know it might be not politically correct for you to talk about it,” he added, “but there were people cheering as that building came down, as those buildings came down. And that tells you something.”

    A spokeswoman did not respond to a request for clarification Saturday about Trump’s comments.

    In a statement, Jersey City Mayor Fulop criticized Trump for his statements.

    “Trump is plain wrong, and he is shamefully politicizing an emotionally charged issue,” said Fulop. “No one in Jersey City cheered on September 11th. We were actually among the first to provide responders to help in lower Manhattan.”

    Footage of Muslims in Middle Eastern countries cheering news of the attacks were broadcast often on television, but there is no evidence in news archives of mass celebrations by Muslims in Jersey City, which sits right across the Hudson River from Lower Manhattan, with clear views of the World Trade Center site.

    While rumors have circulated on the internet for years that American Muslims celebrated the attacks in Paterson, New Jersey, police officials and religious leaders denied it at the time.

    “Trump needs to understand that Jersey City will not be part of his hate campaign,” said Fulop. “Clearly, Trump has memory issues or willfully distorts the truth, either of which should be concerning for the Republican Party.'”

    George Pataki, the governor of New York at the time of the attacks who is also running for the Republican presidential nomination, responded on Twitter.

    “Not sure what luxury spider-hole @realDonaldTrump was hiding in on Sept11 but I saw Americans come together that day @GStephanopoulos,” he wrote.


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    8 years ago

    Trump is absolutelly telling the truth and all those denying it are in the democratic camp, continuing to bury their heads in the political correctness sand. I remember seeing the celebrations shown back then as well. He’s right and he has no fear of telling the uncomfortable truth, no matter how badly the libs will lie and deny!

    8 years ago

    At some point his lies no longer matter. He can say that he saw Hillary sleeping with a goat or Ronald Regan walking on water and his idiot followers will believe it. Even if the goat denies it he will claim the goat is working for the mainstream media.

    8 years ago

    Are these people nuts??? They celebrated in paterson nj and in bay Ridge Brooklyn. That’s where these vermin live. These are their rat holes. It was all over the news!!!!! Why deny it? Why re-write history? ????

    Babishka
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    Babishka
    8 years ago

    I recall the urban legends that there was a van full of ISRAELIS who were jumping and cheering, and that 4000 Jews received “phone calls” telling them to stay home from work on that day.

    Complete and utter lies, just like this crap that Trump is saying.

    If it was on TV there would be plenty of video available, there isn’t because it’s all lies.

    Yes there were people in other countries, that were hostile to the US, who celebrated, but not in Jersey City or Dearborn MI.

    schmaltzy
    schmaltzy
    8 years ago

    Last Friday on the Len Berman/ Tom Schnidt program on WOR radio they discussed this matter and prudently said that there is no proof that any Muslims celebrated in Paterson on 9/11 unless someone calls in to say he saw it. So within minutes a resident of Paterson called in to describe in detail how indeed they celebrated. People who work on 47th St recall vividly how Muslim street vendors celebrated openly at that time. Sorry this does not fit the liberal narrative , but since when does truth matter in their world?

    yankee96
    yankee96
    8 years ago

    theses animals celebrated all over the city!!!!!

    they deny, deny ,deny,just like they deny the holocaust happened

    8 years ago

    many muslim owned stores in brooklyn had dancing outside their stores.as were told by many at that time

    SGMoish
    SGMoish
    8 years ago

    Trump doesn’t back down. Video will be published.

    HankM
    HankM
    8 years ago

    He is correct and this was witnessed by many normal people

    Aron1
    Active Member
    Aron1
    8 years ago

    And if people were ever wondering how the citizens of 1930’s Germany believed the canards and lies about Jews, just look at Trump’s statements & how his followers accept them as gospel. The similarities are scary.

    8 years ago

    A few months ago, someone who lives in Kensington, Brooklyn told me the Muslims in his neighborhood had celebrated on 9/11. I also vaguely recall seeing news reports and footage of Muslims celebrating on Atlantic avenue in Brooklyn. Does anyone else remember that?

    curious
    curious
    8 years ago

    I recall footage of celebration at a mosque in Brooklyn. I also recall vendors giving candies to children in celebration of the attacks.

    hashomer
    hashomer
    8 years ago

    There were many reports of arabs dancing on rooftops and giving out candy in the West Bank on 9-11, but sorry, not in NJ. They were too scared of revenge attacks to show their happiness at our tragedy.

    PaulinSaudi
    PaulinSaudi
    8 years ago

    If true, there must be a lot of cell phone images of these people. (Here, everyone was glued to the TV. Some people celebrated, but were quickly arrested.)

    CommonSense
    CommonSense
    8 years ago

    It’s really sad to see our community falling in line with the most ignorant of hicks…

    schmaltzy
    schmaltzy
    8 years ago

    Chaim.. Are you for real? Do you think the media would play fottage which would embarrass the Muslims? When was the last time you saw footage of Palestinians celebrating every time a Jew is murdered in Israel? Arutz 7 has that footage all the time. Do you really find it not possible to believe that many were dancing if not thousands?: Get real. Or share the same fate as France and Belgium.

    ayoyo
    ayoyo
    8 years ago

    Where are our reporters?We all saw news videos of them celebrating they are still to be found .WHERE ARE THE REPORTERS TO SHOW THE TRUTH?

    Mark Levin
    Mark Levin
    8 years ago

    I guess the lamebrain media has selective memory because everyone on Passaic remembers the arabs of Clifton and Paterson in the streets handing out candy to the kids.

    golani
    golani
    8 years ago

    to all the liberals liars here say what you want the truth is there were celebrations all over the world when 9/11 happened.you fools will only wake up when your are hit in your neighborhoods.

    8 years ago

    All the major networks (including FOX news the mouthpiece of the Republican party) have exhaustively reviewed their footage from the hours and days post 9/11 and NONE have found any footage showing local “celebrations” by thousand or even hundreds of muslims. Could there have been one or two to even ten deranged falafel vendors in Brooklyn or Jersey who gave one another “high-fives” or screeched aloud in the Muslim minhag but all the networks agree that Trump is lying. However, the bigger his lies the more his supporters think he is super-dreche and will vote for him no matter what.

    8 years ago

    Update to my previous comment (#12): I was just listening to talk radio station 710 in New York and they were talking about this. They mentioned several newspapers that carried stories about Muslims celebrating in New York and New Jersey. The host said he’s gotten many emails from people who recall seeing it on the news. I listened for about 5 minutes and in that time 2 people called in and said they remember it. One of them specified that he remembered seeing news reports of them celebrating on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn which is what I also remembered.