Donald Trump repeats false claim that neighbors saw 'bombs all over' before San Bernardino attack

[Eugene]

Source: Los Angeles Times

Donald Trump repeats false claim that neighbors saw 'bombs all over' before San Bernardino attack

By Matt Hamilton
OCTOBER 9, 2016, 10:10 PM

The mass shooting in San Bernardino in 2015 became a topic of the second presidential debate Sunday when Donald Trump repeated the false claim that several witnesses saw explosives at the home of the attackers but neglected to alert law enforcement.

After a Muslim woman asked the Republican candidate how he would help millions of Muslims in the U.S. overcome the stereotype that they pose a threat, Trump referred to the Dec. 2 mass shooting and attempted bombing that left 14 people dead and seriously injured 22 others.

“In San Bernardino, many people saw the bombs all over the apartment of the two people that killed 14 and wounded many, many people,” Trump said. “Muslims have to report the problems when they see them,” he later added.

Trump and his supporters have repeated variations of the claim before, but there is no evidence that witnesses saw weapons in the Redlands townhouse of Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik.

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Read more: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pol-trump-debate-san-bernardino-20161009-snap-story.html

[Fast Walker 52]

1. Trump believes and repeats every stupid conspiracy theory he's ever heard

[C_U_L8R]

2. Trump reads Breitbart and thinks it's real

He's either a fool or demented. Or both.

[sarae]

3. I forgot about this part of the debate...

with all the other insane stuff he said.

That was so insulting. He was addressing a Muslim woman who had just finished asking him about Islamophobia – and he turns around and accuses the Muslim community at large of colluding with terrorists. He's abhorrent.

[ck4829]

4. "I heard someone said their friend said..." does not constitute a sound national security policy

I doubt the original claim is true as well, not just Trump's fantastic claim, where someone said their friend said they saw "Arab looking people but were afraid to say anything".

This isn't the first time this has happened where someone had to pipe up and say they wanted to say something about something going on in their neighborhood after the fact, but you know...

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/08/justice/ohio-police-investigation/index.html

[BSdetect]

5. He has told more lies than hairs on his head

Never stops lying

Truly incredible lies

Documentary fodder - hopefully after he is vanquished