Oops! Trump Cites Video Debunking 9/11 Story As Proof He Was Right
He's an embarrassment to our country and the GOP.
But that 11-second clip cut out key information.
MTV did interview New Jersey residents who claimed to have seen such incidents in the immediate aftermath of the attacks, including a young Paterson resident named Emily Acevedo. Acevedo said at the time that she witnessed a group of teenagers shouting “burn America.”
The MTV report was recently cited by conservative blogger Debbie Schlussel as proof that Trump was correct about the cheering, prompting the network to release a repackaged video titled “Trump Is Wrong About People ‘Cheering' 9/11 In New Jersey—Here's The Evidence.” The original footage is accompanied by a follow-up interview with Acevedo, who now denies that the kids she saw were saying “burn America.” Instead, Acevedo said they were just behaving like teenagers would “on any other summer night.”
He's an embarrassment to our country and the GOP.