The Future President, Donald Trump

He knows his audience. As a divider and conquerer,

You are confusing him with the Clintons.

Donald Trump touted the benefits of waterboarding in a campaign rally on Monday night, telling a crowd that “you bet your ass” he would bring it back into use.

Addressing thousands of people in Columbus, Ohio, the Republican frontrunner praised waterboarding, an interrogation method that has been called torture. “I would approve more than that,” he said.

Trump told supporters: “Would I approve waterboarding? You bet your ass I would. In a heartbeat. I would approve more than that. It works.”

The Republican frontrunner then added “… and if it doesn’t work, they deserve it anyway for what they do to us”.

So NPR, the New York Times and the Associated Press searched contemporaneous news accounts and could find no evidence of Muslim-Americans cheering in Jersey City. That’s odd. Because it took me less than two minutes to find this story from the Washington Post dated September 18, 2001 (although I did have to spend $3.95 to buy it from the Post’s archives):

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In Jersey City, within hours of two jetliners’ plowing into the World Trade Center, law enforcement authorities detained and questioned a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks and holding tailgate-style parties on rooftops while they watched the devastation on the other side of the river.
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I don’t think Trump saw anyone celebrating in Jersey City on television, but I could be wrong about that. In any event, NPR, the New York Times and the Associated Press are simply wrong when they tell their audiences that there is no evidence of Muslims in America celebrating on September 11, and no contemporaneous news stories to that effect.

Why does this happen? Are NPR, the Times and the AP incapable of using Google? Perhaps. But here is another possibility: note that the Times and the AP coyly limited their denials to news accounts of “mass cheering” or “mass celebrations” in Jersey City. I think they found the Washington Post story but preferred not to mention it. Instead, they deceived their readers by silently making the implicit judgment that “a number of people” are not a “mass.”

I think that these news outlets are so hysterically eager to discredit any concerns about Islam that they won’t let something as minor as the facts get in their way. There is dishonesty here, but it is on the part of NPR, the New York Times and the Associated Press, not Donald Trump.

UPDATE: Now it’s Tom Brokaw, accusing Trump of telling “flat-out lies. … [It’s] completely wrong. It did not happen.” How does Brokaw know it did not happen? Why do all of these liberals express themselves with such categorical certainty?

I think Trump exaggerated when he said that “thousands and thousands” of American Muslims celebrated the 9/11 attacks, but I also think that there were, indeed, some American Muslims who cheered them. If a liberal wants to say, “Well, sure, there were some who celebrated the attacks, but there weren’t very many, so it’s OK,” fine. They can make that argument. (The obvious next question would be, how many were there?) But the hysterical and unqualified denunciations of Trump by the liberal media are far more misleading than his original statements were.

It looks like Trump conflated the Palestinian celebrants in Jersey with the linked video of celebrants in Gaza (or wherever that video was taken) and / or hyperbolized like he very often does.

I have to say that I hate that most of his "exaggerations" try to pit races against one another

He is not creating anything, he is telling the truth about what already exists, unlike the corporate class media, unlike the left will allow, unlike how the elite want us to think.

he is telling the truth about what already exists

The Don is merely stirring unrest, and attacking minorities. He knows his audience. As a divider and conquerer, he is doing a great job.... for the elites.

he says things happened that didn't

On Tuesday, Trump's chief counsel, Michael Cohen, stood by the comments, even as he was pressed by CNN's Chris Cuomo on the fact that there's no evidence to back up the claims and that accuracy matters in a presidential race.

"He's probably right," Cohen said of Trump on "New Day." "There's no way to say that it wasn't."

Cohen said the argument over the number of people celebrating is misplaced, and that Trump was making a broader point about enemies within the United States.

"Whether it's thousands and thousands or 1,000 people or even just 1 person, it's irrelevant. To celebrate this tragedy ... it's wrong," Cohen said. "What the exact number is, I don't know, and I don't think it's relevant. What's important is that there are bad people among us.

This week might be notable, however, for the sheer concentration of outrageousness. But while the brazenness of Trump’s falsehoods are noteworthy, he’s more than just a media wizard and blowhard. His willingness to spread racially-motivated lies—coupled with both the media’s inability to stop him and the voting bloc who believes him—represents something far more ominous about the state of our union.

This guy is the only one who can make a difference. He's my guy.

for the wanna be elites of the 1950's maybe

Now Trump is saying he watched people jumping from the Towers to their death from his apartment window and he watched the second plane hit the other Tower. His apartment is over 4 miles away. lol

And he's doubling and tripling down on his claim he saw people celebrating as the Tower's fell.

It's a close race as to which is more delusional, he or Carson.