9/11 Co-Chair: There Were Stories About Muslims Cheering on 9/11 But Stories Were Not True

MITCHELL: “I want to ask you about what Donald Trump has been saying and he repeated it again last night, about what happened in Jersey City after 9/11. It’s been disputed soundly by a number of people, fact-checkers, but let me play his latest comments on this.”

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TRUMP: “I took heat because I said in New Jersey and in a Jersey City, I said very, you know, very strongly and very correctly, I said, there’re people over there and they were dancing in the street. And they were dancing on rooftops.”
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MITCHELL: “There’s a column this morning by John Farmer, who is the former Attorney General of New Jersey, and he at the time, well, he wrote today in ‘The Star-Ledger’ that whatever the message, it is just plain wrong to cite thousands of Muslims dancing in Jersey City or Paterson on 9/11 as support, that simply never happened. He said that there were rumors at the time, and he told Maggie Haberman of ‘The New York Times’ they were all checked out and they did not proved true. Did you in your investigation, your lengthy, years and years of investigating 9/11, ever come across any evidence of this?”

KEAN: “No, we didn’t. But I remember it very well, because I’m — I was in New Jersey. And Donald Trump is right, there were stories about it. I think more in Paterson than Jersey City, but [indecipherable] definitely stories about it. But the stories were checked out and weren’t true. So it didn’t happen.”