His plans include banning immigration from certain nations or regions and the construction of a wall on the US-Mexican border.

“Those people who knocked down the World Trade Center, most likely, under the Trump policy, wouldn’t have been here to knock down the World Trade Center, just so you understand,” the Republican presidential nominee said, referring to his controversial immigration proposals.

Donald Trump told audience members Wednesday at a Florida town hall that the September 11 attacks would not have played out as they did under his own policies.

Wednesday’s comment was made while reiterating the story of a September 2001 Washington Post report about a group of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the terrorist attacks from rooftops in New Jersey. The story was co-written by Serge Kovaleski, a reporter who suffers from arthrogryposis, a joint condition.


Kovaleski spoke out last year about Trump’s version of the story, and Trump later impersonated him at a campaign program, though he denies mocking him specifically.

On Wednesday, Trump sandwiched the story about his relationship with Kovaleski between mentions of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and her “phony ads.”

Within minutes of his September 11 mention, Trump moved on from the topic, jumping into the alleged lie that Kovaleski told when he said he and Trump know one another. He then quickly stressed his commitment to helping “handicapped” people.

“People with disabilities — I spend millions of dollars on ramps, on all sorts of things in buildings, in some cases, many cases, things I don’t have to do, but I am a tremendous fan,” he said.

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