Thanks to Donald Trump, the DC Media’s 14 year cover up of the troubling fact that a number of American Muslims did in fact publicly celebrate the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9/11, has now been blown wide open. It happened, people saw it, police saw it, and it happened in a number of locations.

“Hey, I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down. And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down,” Trump said. “Thousands of people were cheering. So something’s going on. We’ve got to find out what it is.”

New Jersey.Com:

A retired police captain, Peter Gallagher, said he cleared a rooftop celebration of 20 to 30 people at 6 Tonnele Ave., a four-story apartment building with an unobstructed view of Lower Manhattan, in the hours after the second tower fell. … Knight was one of two Tonnele Avenue residents who said they witnessed a crowd celebrating on John F. Kennedy Boulevard not far from Masjid Al-Salam, the mosque where Omar Abdel-Rahman, known as the “blind sheikh,” preached before the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. … Numerous people called police to report an exultant crowd on the roof of 2801 John F. Kennedy Blvd., a distinctive, five-story apartment building at the intersection of Sip Avenue, said retired officer Arthur Teeter, who worked in the radio room at police headquarters on Sept. 11. … hree additional officers who remain on the Jersey City force said they witnessed small groups of Muslim celebrants on Sept. 11, but they would not speak for attribution, citing a department policy that prohibits media interviews. … Eleven other officers claimed to have been witnesses to celebrations in postings on Facebook after Trump resurrected the issue, but they either declined to speak for attribution or did not return calls seeking comment.

New Jersey.com concludes that Trump’s claim of “thousands” is baseless, but…

in a new examination by NJ Advance Media, a police officer who worked on 9/11 and residents on the outskirts of Journal Square say they witnessed small pockets of people celebrating before the groups dispersed or were broken up by authorities.

However, as I wrote earlier this month. If you are going to judge Trump…

You have to add up all of the contemporaneous news reports. You are Donald Trump. You are taking in all the news during that awful week. You are told by the media that “swarms” of Muslims in a known terrorist’s neighborhood were seen on rooftops celebrating 9/11. Just two days earlier you have read this in the New York Post: 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 (who has been tireless and magnificent in this crisis) rightly warned New Yorker-ers that is would be wrong to take their anger our on the city’s Arab and Muslim residents. Attacks on Arab-Americans in Paterson or elsewhere are utterly indefensible. You hear radio news reports about Muslims celebrations. MTV runs a news report about Muslim celebrations. From all of those news reports, it is perfectly reasonable and nothing close to lying to put together a picture of “thousands”. FACT: Donald Trump is now 100% vindicated.

Yep.

And our useless, corrupt media has once again been exposed as outright liars and cover-up artists.

We have been lied to for 14 years, told time and again by our media that this was an urban legend.

Nope, it happened.

And if Trump hadn’t had the courage to touch the third-rail of political correctness, we wouldn’t know this had happened.

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