![]() ![]() Nope, not a single fact checker found this article to be significant. It was pretty much on point, not 100 percent, but pretty much." Trump: "And it really shut a lot of people up. In the 15th paragraph, it said that "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." (No mention of dancing, by the way.) 18, 2001, described FBI probes in northern New Jersey in the wake of the attacks. The article, which appeared on page 6 of the Washington Post on Sept. And it was great and I said here's the article." And I said, 'here's an article.' I said I think he was with The Washington Post when he wrote the article. And the article is a great article for me. In other words, Trump mouthed off, and the campaign was having trouble confirming his remarks: "All of suddenly someone comes up with an article and the article is written by this guy who said he met me many, many years ago. That's interesting admission by Trump, in that he concedes his campaign was scrambling for some scrap of evidence that what he said was right. Now, let's go back to the recent rally in Colorado Springs, going through his explanation in detail: "I said, 'dancing, rooftops, street, whatever.' And we couldn't find too much stuff confirming what I said." We found that claim to be totally false, and yet stuck to it, even if the face of overwhelming evidence that he was wrong. And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down. 11 attacks: "I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down. Readers may recall that the controversy started in November when Trump, without any evidence, asserted this claim about the Sept. So let's unpack his explanation.įirst of all, there is the ad that the Clinton campaign is running in battleground states, link below. Much of what Trump says is totally false. As he put it, the Clinton campaign is run by "sick people." Kovaleski has resulted in a hard-hitting attack by the Clinton campaign, Trump offered a lengthy rebuttal in the middle of a campaign rally. This is a very long quote, but we wanted to provide a flavor of Donald Trump's strange revisionist history regarding his mocking of a disabled reporter.Ĭlearly miffed that his imitation of New York Times reporter Serge F. ![]() –Donald Trump, remarks in Colorado Springs, Colo., July 29, 2016 All of a sudden, I get reports that I was imitating that I was imitating a reporter who was handicapped. 'I was wrong, I promise you, I made a mistake when I wrote the article.' He was groveling, grovel, grovel, grovel. And I said he's groveling, he said, 'no, no, the article, I was wrong on the article.' I was doing a whole big number. Everyone know what grovel is? At the time I did the act, I did the whole thing with groveling. So I started imitating somebody – I didn't speak to the guy – somebody that was groveling. I didn't know it, I didn't know it at all. ![]() This is not good.' So all of the sudden, the guy – I think the article was almost 15 years old – he starts changing the article, that he made a mistake, he this, he that. And obviously the other side of things started calling him also, saying 'this article is not good, because this is sort of confirming what Trump is saying. And the author of this article was this guy. It was an article written by a major newspaper. It was pretty much on point, not 100 percent, but pretty much. And it was great and I said here's the article. And all of suddenly someone comes up with an article and the article is written by this guy who said he met me many, many years ago. "I said, 'dancing, rooftops, street, whatever.' And we couldn't find too much stuff confirming what I said. ![]()
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