- Trump statement had been widely ridiculed
- Now newspaper and television archive lend credence
- Trump in Davenport this Saturday
From Gary Bauer at Campaign for Working Families (excerpt)
The debate over whether Muslims in America celebrated during the 9/11 attacks continues. The Trump campaign scored points today when it produced a New York Post column written by Professor Fred Siegel three days after the 9/11 attacks. (How is it that none of the fact checkers and media mavens could find it?)
In the column, Dr. Siegel writes the following:
“Here in New York, it was easy to get angry listening to Egyptians, Palestinians and the Arabs of nearby Paterson, N.J., celebrate as they received word of the murderous attack in New York and Washington. But Mayor Giuliani . . . rightly warned New Yorkers that is would be wrong to take their anger out on the city’s Arab and Muslim residents. Attacks on Arab-Americans in Paterson or elsewhere are utterly indefensible.”
Cheryl Chumley writing at World Net Daily: (excerpts)
Huge for Trump! TV proof of 9/11 cheers — CBS newscast describes ‘swarms’ of celebrating Muslims on roof
A newly emerged CBS News video from 2001 flies in the face of the national media pointing fingers at Donald Trump, accusing him of lying about the reports of thousands of Muslims cheering on rooftops after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The video, from Sept. 16, 2001, from WCBS-TV, the CBS owned and operated station in New York City, actually reports something virtually identical – that “swarms” of Muslims cheered from rooftops over the terrorist attacks that killed and injured thousands of Americans. . . .
The video would seem to fly in the face of a massive media attack on Trump for his previous claims of seeing Muslims cheering on rooftops over the terror attacks. Specifically, he told an Alabama campaign crowd he “watched the World Trade Center go down” on television and shortly after, watched in New Jersey “as thousands of people were cheering as the building was coming down.” He then went on “This Week” on ABC and said “there were people that were cheering on the other side of New Jersey where you have large Arab populations … as the World Trade Center came down,”
For that, Trump was completely vilified by the press. The Washington Post’s factchecker slammed him with a rating of four Pinocchios, the tag given those who tell the biggest whoppers. The factchecker was later forced to tone down his critical rhetoric, after readers pointed out reports from his own employer, the Washington Post, published on Sept. 18, 2001, of cheering Muslims from nearby rooftops. . . .
And that, combined with the “contemporaneous news reports” about the cheering Muslims, including the Washington Post’s own mention of the fact, gives credence to Trump’s claims, Breitbart’s John Nolte wrote.
Just recently, the New York Post reported about Rudy Giuliani telling CNN’s Alisyn Camerota there were Muslim celebrations about Sept. 11, 2001. As the Post wrote: “Camerota quizzed Giuliani, hoping he would say that Trump is ‘lying.’ She was frustrated when Giuliani merely said that Trump had been ‘exaggerating’ and pointing out hitherto ignored examples of handfuls of Muslims celebrating in New York.”
Breitbart’s (John) Nolte concluded his piece with the blunt assessment: the media’s wrong; Trump’s right.
He wrote: “From all of those reports, it is perfectly reasonable and nothing close to lying to put together a picture of ‘thousands.’ Fact: Donald Trump is now 100 percent vindicated. If these celebrations did not occur, the only thing Trump did wrong was to believe the same media that is now calling him a liar – and doing so to cover up the truth about American Muslims celebrating 9/11 and their own covering up of that fact.”
Trump at Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds this Saturday 2:00 PM
Doors open at noon. Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds, 2815 West Locust, Mississippi Fair Center Building, No cost to attend and open to the public but campaign asks for RSVP’s at https://trumpdavenport.eventbrite.com/
