Even Laura Ingraham Won't Substantiate Trump's 9/11 Claim
Laura Ingraham: “There's No Evidence” That American Muslims Cheered During 9/11 Attacks
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Not even Laura Ingraham is willing to support Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's claim that American Muslims cheered in Jersey City, New Jersey during the September 11 attacks. The conservative talk radio host, who has praised Trump for his extreme positions and who has herself made Islamophobic comments, shut down a caller who said people in New York City and at Pennsylvania State University were cheering during the attacks. Trump's claim, which he made on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, has been debunked and widely criticized. PolitiFact wrote that Trump's statement “defies basic logic” and that "[i]f thousands and thousands of people were celebrating the 9/11 attacks on American soil, many people beyond Trump would remember it. And in the 21st century, there would be video or visual evidence." From the November 23 edition of Courtside Entertainment Group's The Laura Ingraham Show: