Bush rejects Trump's claim of Muslims cheering on 9/11
US presidential candidate Jeb Bush has rejected his Republican rival Donald Trump’s claim that thousands of Muslim Americans cheered as the World Trade Center collapsed on September 11, 2001 in New York.
“I don’t believe it happened,” he told CNN on Wednesday. "He doesn’t know what he’s talking about. I know many Muslims who were just as angry and saddened as we were.”
“He says these things to prey on people’s fears,” the former Florida governor added of Trump. "He’s not a serious leader.”
Trump is not backing down from his controversial claim that “thousands of people” in Arab Muslim communities in New Jersey cheered as the Twin Towers fell on 9/11.
The Republican frontrunner told an NBC News reporter on Monday night that he has "the world’s greatest memory" and everybody knows about this, insisting that his claims were valid and flaunted the support he said he received on his Twitter page.
“He was adamant,” NBC News reporter Katy Tur told MSNBC after talking to the billionaire real estate mogul on telephone.
Trump also demanded apologies from those people who dared to doubt his recollection of the 9/11 attacks. “I want an apology,” he tweeted. "Many people have tweeted that I am right.”
Trump provoked a controversy by making repeated claims that he saw thousands of Arab Muslims in New Jersey cheering the fall of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001.
Trump first said on Saturday that Arab people cheered on 9/11 speaking at a rally in Birmingham, Alabama.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Jeb Bush said he would beat Trump and win the Republican presidential nomination.
“I can become president [and] I have the skills to do it,” he said. "I am confident that I am going to win the Republican nomination. People are going to look at who has the skills, the talent, the heart and the spine."
"I can beat Hillary Clinton,” he said of the Democratic frontrunner candidate.
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