A local New York CBS News clip from September 16, 2001 has surfaced online that reports Muslims celebrated on rooftops in New Jersey after the planes hit the Twin Towers on 9/11.
Breitbart News is declaring Donald Trump vindicated after media attacked him for two weeks for lying about seeing those celebrations. Here is a transcript they provided from the report:
Just a couple of blocks away from that Jersey City apartment the F.B.I. raided yesterday and had evidence removed, there is another apartment building, one that investigators told me, quote, was swarming with suspects — suspects who I’m told were cheering on the roof when they saw the planes slam into the Trade Center. Police were called to the building by neighbors and found eight men celebrating, six of them tenants in the building.
The F.B.I. and other terrorist task force agencies arrived, and the older investigators on the task force recalled that they had been to this building before, eight years ago, when the first World Trade Center attack led them to Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, whose Jersey City mosque lies between the two buildings getting attention today. And the older investigators remember that the suspects that eventually got convicted for the first Trade Center case … lived in the building where these same eight men were celebrating the destruction that they saw from the roof. Calling this a hot address, the task force investigators ordered everyone detained.
The Breitbart report also mentions several other reports in the days and weeks following the attacks that add to Trump's claim, including MTV reporting on Muslim celebrations and the New York Post which stated: "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."
"FACT: Donald Trump is now 100% vindicated," writes John Nolte for Breitbart.
Other videos can be found of the mainstream media reporting on American Muslims celebrating 9/11, like this one from Anderson Cooper. Listen near the :20 second mark: