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Nov 24
2015 |
Trump: 'Hundreds' Said They Saw 9/11 Celebrations in US |
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Republican Presidential frontrunner Donald Trump didn't back down from his controversial comments about 9/11 Monday night, saying residents of Jersey City, NJ celebrated the World Trade Center attacks.
Trump, speaking at a rally in Columbus, OH said he has received ???hundreds??? of phone calls and tweets from people who claim to have seen the celebrations.
"Lo and behold I start getting phone calls in my office by the hundreds, that they were there and they saw this take place on the internet," Trump said in Ohio.
Trump also quoted from the Sept. 18, 2001 Washington Post article which described how authorities detained people "allegedly seen celebrating the attacks and holding tailgate-style parties on rooftops while they watched the devastation on the other side of the river."
Trump told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos that "there were people that were cheering on the other side of New Jersey where you have large Arab population."
"They were cheering as the World Trade Center... |
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| Source:http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-heard-hundreds-911-celebrations-us/story?id=35380110 |
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