“I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down,” Trump told a crowd in Birmingham, Ala., on Saturday. “ I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down.”
No news reports exist of people cheering in the streets, and police officials and the mayor of Jersey City have said that it did not happen.
An Internet rumor about people cheering in the streets, which said it was in Paterson, not Jersey City, has been denied numerous times by city and police officials.
But when pressed in an interview, Trump emphatically stuck to his story.
“It did happen, I saw it,” Trump said. “It was on television. I saw it.”
When reminded that it didn’t happen, Trump again insisted that he saw it.
“I know it might be not politically correct for you to talk about it, but there were people cheering as that building came down, as those buildings came down. And that tells you something,” he said. “It was well covered at the time.”
A series of new polls released early Sunday morning all show Trump holding a commanding lead in both nationwide and state-specific polling.
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/11/22/donald-trump-again-insists-he-saw-celebrations-in-new-jersey-on-sept-11/
