Courtesy of the New York Post:
On “Meet the Press” Trump again insisted he saw celebrations in New Jersey following the terrorist attacks– despite no video coverage backing up that claim and police denying it happened.
“I saw it. So many people saw it, Chuck. So why would I take it back, I’m not going to take it back,” Trump said.
Todd pounced: “Just because somebody repeats something doesn’t make it true. And I guess, that’s actually, that’s the worst — ” Todd said shaking his head with a look of disgust.
Trump cut in to say people were saying in Sarasota, Florida over the weekend they were in New Jersey at the time also saw Arabs cheering the deadly terrorists attacks.
“People were saying,” Todd chimed in. “Mr. Trump, if I said, “Well people have said, Mr. Trump is not worth $10 billion and people were saying …’ you would say that was crazy. You wouldn’t make a business deal based on retweets and based on hearsay. You’re running for president of the United States. Your words matter. Truthfulness matters. Fact-based stuff matters, no?”
“Take it easy. Chuck, just play cool.” Trump retorted.
“I have a very good memory, Chuck.,” Trump added. “… I saw it somewhere on television many years ago and I never forgot it.”
Well good for Chuck Todd for holding Trump's feet to the fire over this BS claim.
And fuck Trump for continuing to report this lie which can only cause more divisiveness and animosity towards American Muslims.
Paging 'el chapo'...
ReplyDeleteEl Chapo is busy preparing a very large tunnel underneath the Donald's Mexican wall.
DeleteDid Trump mention that the wall was going to be built by the U.S. construction crews which by the way are now 75% Mexican laborers? But wait......if they are all rounded up and deported.......hmmm.
DeleteNEXT...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/carly-fiorina-planned-parenthood_565b2cefe4b072e9d1c22960
I saw that. Dumpster was rudely trying to talk/shout over him. His story changed by the minute. For once Chuck grew a spine and didn't let Donald dipshit get the upper hand with threats and juvenile namecalling.
DeleteTrump is getting more insane as time goes by. *seriously*
ReplyDeleteI agree.
DeleteMeanwhile we have the best US President ever the last 7 years!!!!!
DeleteI remember that footage. There were people cheering and Afghanistan. The place where we had armed conflicts in the Middle East for ages.
ReplyDeleteI imagine that they cheered in the same way we did when we heard of Osama bin Laden has been assassinated in a raid.
I didn't cheer when Osama was killed, either.. Cheering about things like that is just not my style.
DeleteI didn't either, but am glad he is gone. I do have a few that I am going to throw a frickin party over, though! Palin, Cheney, Bush, Rove, Rumsfeld, Trump. Geez, I need to stock up on party supplies.
DeleteThank you, I replied below before seeing your response, 4:56 PM. I also do not cheer at assassinations, but was amazed at our President's collective calm. That was the night of the WHCD and no one would have ever known.
DeleteThat was the night people were cheering the President for his takedown of Trump. Before we knew what else was going on at the same time.
DeleteOf great concern:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.alternet.org/israel-coordinate-google-youtube-censor-palestinian-videos-conflict
First Trump said he saw Muslims cheering from his office window, now he is saying he saw it on TV. The man is a pathological liar.
ReplyDeleteMy understanding is that Trump claimed to have seen people falling from the towers from his office window, also impossible, but not that he saw the Muslims cheering from there.
DeleteThe bottom line is that essentially everything he says is bullshit.
He can't see people jumping to their death from four miles away and, as for muslims cheering, he did see that video. I did too but it was from the Middle East when they heard the news.
DeleteRepublican = Liar
DeleteI wonder if he can see Russia from his tower also?
DeleteYes,he claimed He saw it from his office window- 4 miles away.
DeleteYup . The interview I saw he claimed to have seen Muslims having tailgate parties in Jersey,4 miles away. His story changed by the minute.
DeleteYou're correct that he also claimed to have seen people jumping from the towers,from his building.
DeleteFor anyone not familiar with Manhattan, Trump built his colossus on Fifth Avenue and 56th St. (tearing down the gorgeous Bonwit Teller to get the site).
DeleteThe World Trade Center was right next to Wall Street, the New York Federal Reserve -- everything at the tip of Manhattan. New York blocks are roughly 20 per mile, down to Washington Square, where all the named streets get mixed up. Still, from 8th St. in Greenwich Village to 56th St. means he was roughly two and a half miles from Washington Square Park, which then descends to the Village,
East Village, NYU, City Hall, Tribeca, plus the thousands of towers that make up NYC.
Trump lies when he thinks he can tell fantasies that he can pull over the rest of us "stupid" people. He thinks we're all rubes.
But facts are irrefutable.
Take this from someone who was downtown that day and did see, and hear, and watch, bodies jumping from the World Trade Centers. If Trump really had seen it, he wouldn't boast about it.
I can only imagine how horrific, 8:56 PM.
DeleteThank you for clarifying for us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkYNBwCEeH4
DeleteMy hate list just keeps growing. But, at least it is contained to one specific group.
ReplyDeleteLOL!! Trump cancels tomorrows meeting with black pastors. Well there goes 100 endorsements that were NEVER his to begin with!
ReplyDeleteI think there is still a meeting, just not the press conference afterward.
DeleteI can remember my trip down the Fallopian Tube, I've got THAT good of a memory...and can, with crystal clarity, recall the news footage of ARABS IN ARABIA cheering...and wondering at the time, if they were really doing that due to the deaths of innocent people in America, or possibly over news that the toilet paper shortage was over, for them.
ReplyDeleteWe all need to have a suspicious nature, nowadays, given the tendency of people to put forth completely manufactured "evidence" about nearly everything.
A Presidential contender, should have a full STAFF of people, assisting him in not being easily punked, and therefore making a fool of himself on the international stage.
Well, Roger, I remember when I was just an itch in my daddy's pants. Some woman opened the semen floodgates one night and I was the greatest swimmer to the egg.
DeleteOkay, you one upped me! I think I was reading Klein's "Shock Doctrine" at the time, so missed that climactic event in my life.
DeleteI'm anonymous 5:00 P.M
DeleteOK Gryphen. You are right. I remember now.
Heck I don't remember anything other than at 4 being told things will happen and they all did and I neatly went nuts til an old mexican woman explained a lot of things about other side and keep things to myself unless it helps.
DeleteIf Trump says he saw a uterus, then he saw one, damn it! He has the bestest, most perfectest memory ever! It was plated in 24k gold and was yuge!
ReplyDeletePrior to that, when he was a mere egg in his mommy's womb, he saw a big dick. Now, when he shaves he sees an even bigger one. Yuge!
If the don says he has big women breasts then heck believe him.
DeleteAsk milana, he does have big breasts.
Trump hasn't attacked Todd on twitter, a sign he may believe he held his ground and came out ahead of Todd. Todd did let him get the last word.
ReplyDeleteTrump never shuts up. When has he not had the last word. He just keeps talking.
DeleteTrust me. If there was footage of Muslims in America cheering about 9/11, Fox News would have been showing it every god damn day of the past 14 years!!
ReplyDeleteWell obviously by now people realize that there were no cheering Muslims in New Jersey on Sept. 11, 2001, even if Mr. Trump insists that it was so.
ReplyDeleteThat day there would have been no way for anyone, let alone Muslims, to know at that moment when the Towers were demolished that it would be attributed to Osama Bin Laden. That happened later. And it was not true, of course, as is most of the official US Government conspiracy theory.
What was discovered was that there was a small group of people celebrating in New Jersey, but they were not Muslims. They were Israelis.
Check it out here, where there are many links to legitimate sources:
https://kendoc911.wordpress.com/?s=Dancing+Israelis
And Osama bin Laden was not killed in the raid in Pakistan in 2013. He had been dead for years.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/osama-bin-ladens-obituary-notice/5358889
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?s=bin+Laden
And from no less a source than Fox News:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2001/12/26/report-bin-laden-already-dead.html
He died in 2011.
Delete...and was buried next to Elvis and Bigfoot...covered not with earth, but with genuine Reynolds aluminum foil.
Deleteroger, if your witty comment was directed at the information I provided, then it is clear you have not done any research on the topics.
DeleteThe term "tin-foil hat" is what uninformed people often use in an attempt to discredit those who provide information that is contrary to their own emotionally-held, factually unsupported beliefs about an important event.
Noriega-exactly
DeleteThanks Roger for doing your part to keep out any real discussion. The Borg depend on people like you
Noriega-well said. The Borg depend on people like Roger to keep the conversation away from certain awkward conclusions. I wonder how it feels to go through life as a mere tool?
DeleteYou folks must be a real BLAST to be around, at parties.
DeletePardon me if the last several decades of purposely distributed misinformation, has me armed with a healthy skepticism about fantastical sounding conspiracy theories.
Please try to remember that is exactly what they ARE: nothing but theories. If you choose to cement such stuff into your minds, and refuse forever afterwards to consider new information, that's fine with me.
Just don't ask ME to take such malarkey seriously, and call me names like a grade schooler would, if I don't subscribe to your silliness.
roger, you have no idea what you are writing about.
DeleteThe most fantastical sounding conspiracy theory is the government's own, one that states somebody in a cave in Afghanistan orchestrated these events successfully. You have got your head in the sand. And I have not insulted you. And free-fall acceleration is not a "theory." It is science. WTC7 fell at that speed for 2.25 seconds, and impossibility without the use of explosives. Wake up.
"Let's take a minute to re-acquaint ourselves with the official explanation, which is not regarded as a conspiracy theory despite the fact that it comprises an amazing conspiracy. The official truth is that a handful of young Muslim Arabs who could not fly airplanes, mainly Saudi Arabians who came neither from Iraq nor from Afghanistan, outwitted not only the CIA and the FBI, but also all 16 US intelligence agencies and all intelligence agencies of US allies including Israel's Mossad, which is believed to have penetrated every terrorist organization and which carries out assassinations of those whom Mossad marks as terrorists.
In addition to outwitting every intelligence agency of the United States and its allies, the handful of young Saudi Arabians outwitted the National Security Council, the State Department, NORAD, airport security four times in the same hour on the same morning, air traffic control, caused the US Air Force to be unable to launch interceptor aircraft, and caused three well-built steel-structured buildings, including one not hit by an airplane, to fail suddenly in a few seconds as a result of limited structural damage and small, short-lived, low-temperature fires that burned on a few floors.
The Saudi terrorists were even able to confound the laws of physics and cause WTC building seven to collapse at free-fall speed for several seconds, a physical impossibility in the absence of explosives used in controlled demolition.”
Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Conspiracy-Theory-by-paul-craig-roberts-110620-169.html
And roger, you are the one who referenced the term "tin-foil hat."
DeleteAs chuck the todd has often been a rethug stooge (or so it seems)... has it occurred to anyone that maybe the word has gone out that the crump is to be taken down and that is why chuckie seems to have grown journalistic balls so to speak?
ReplyDeleteWe'll see. The head rethugs do seem to be worried. How many times has Russert spun in his grave?
That was my first thought. Todd only stood up to Trump because Trump is perceived as a threat by the lockstep Republican establishment. Not really sure why though. They're likethis on the issues and Trump would probably get more repug voters to the polls than any of the other repug candidates.
DeleteDonnie boy was a liar and a bully as a child. Like $P, he has never advanced from that middle school personna.
ReplyDeleteHe used that lying and bullying to accumulate his billions - by using others as his stepping stones. He didn't care if he crushed them along the way, as long as HE got what he wanted.
As time passes, Adolph and the Rump seem more and more alike. Time for Troblinka yet right wingers?
ReplyDeleteYeah. Trump was *in* New Jersey watching a TV feed from the Middle East somewhere.
ReplyDeleteSo much for his greatest memory in the world. Can't remember this. Doesn't remember the journalist from the Times he was on a first name basis with.
I don't understand how anyone can think this blowhard, grandstanding, bigot putz is qualified to be President.
Journalists need to decide what is more important, repeated visits to their networks and invitations to cocktail parties, or
ReplyDeleteactual journalism.
Part of the overall malaise facing voters, I suspect, is the complete lack of holding candidates accountable by the press.
They rarely follow up or even ask the right questions.
I doubt we're seeing a new Chuck Todd, but this will win more points that just punting.
I wonder what Sarah Palin thinks of "Rump the Chump" now that he's been called out for lying. But, since both of them lie every time they open their mouths, they may not be aware of their predilection for telling lies. On second thought, I think they know that they're deliberately lying. They think we're all stupid when that applies much more generally to the media that follows them around, panting.
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Chuck Todd practically called Donald Trump a liar.
ReplyDeleteHow come Donald Trump doesn't attack Chuck Todd's facial features or make sounds like a handicap person? Is it because Chuck Todd would verbally kick Donald Trump's ass?
Of course they know they're lying. So do most of their supporters. Its the repeated lies that each time told,take on new life that they're counting on.
ReplyDeleteSo that's the new response to "you're lying?" Take it easy; just play cool???? Riiiiiight.........
ReplyDeleteHence forward I will not believe nor listen to anything Trump says. Trump must be counting on the minority who did not watch or read news regarding 9/11. His claims defy logic and reason. He wants people to believe all Muslims were in on this plot and organized victory partying ahead of time. Trump is a sick SOB in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteI think the Huffington Post called it correctly on this.
DeleteJust ignore him. Not a serious or viable candidate.
ALWAYS ABOUT HIM:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/trump-black-lives-matter-pressured-pastors-back-endorsement-n471376
Ah yes, the "I seen it on teevee somewhere once and never forgot it" excuse. Is that the same as calling fetuses babies and adding them to the tally of victims killed by violence? I saw that on tee vee once and never forgot it.
ReplyDeleteThen, when Donald Trump "forgave" miss america because sexually suggestive photos taken years ago emerged. She told him to shove his forgiveness and went on to become a hit singer and actress DESPITE his bullshit. Vanessa Williams stood her ground. Carrie Prejean, had a ghostwritten book called "I'm still standing" after sexually suggestive photos of her emerged. Don't know where she's still standing, she faded into the walls like one of Donald's cockroaches.