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Trump: NJ cheered on 9/11

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump said at a rally on Saturday in Birmingham, Alabama that he watched as the World Trade Center “came tumbling down” on September 11, 2001.

“And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down,” he added. “Thousands of people were cheering.”

Trump has received criticism from his many recent comments regarding the refugee crisis, this time commenting that thousands of people in parts of New Jersey with large Arab populations cheered on 9/11.

George Stephanopoulos, host of ABC’s “This Week,” asked Trump on Sunday if he misspoke, noting that “police say that didn’t happen and all those rumors have been on the Internet for some time.”

 

Trump persisted that it happened.

 

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

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

“It is unfortunate that Donald Trump is giving new life to long-debunked conspiracy theories about 9/11,” the Anti-Defamation League said in statement to Buzzfeed.

“His comments are irresponsible — not to mention factually challenged.”

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