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In
the eighth of his “Letters From the 2016 Presidential Campaign” GOP
presidential candidate Andy Martin provides an explanation for some of Donald
Trump’s remarks, including the anti-American 9/11 “celebrations” in New Jersey
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(San Francisco , CA November 27, 2015 ) Dear
American:
Greetings from California .
I have been campaigning on the West Coast. In the meantime
the front runners for the GOP presidential nomination, Donald Trump and Ben
Carson, have been creating media flare-ups. I thought you might appreciate some
brief reaction from me. Although I am not going to win the nomination, it is
rapidly becoming evident that I am the “adult” candidate in the race, i.e. a
candidate with the media experience and knowledge of the issues to avoid rookie
mistakes, as well as not being a whiner about my lowly standing in the polls.
If I am not quite a happy warrior I am at least a sensible one.
1. Ben Carson’s faithless “advisers”
Dr. Ben Carson was attacked by some of his own “advisers,”
who told the media Carson did not understand foreign affairs. Carson
was the victim of a stab in the back. Advisers are not supposed to attack their
candidate and they are certainly not supposed to go public with their
criticisms of a candidate. I think it is true that Carson
does not have deep experience with foreign policy issues.
By comparison, while I was traveling around the world on
various assignments over the decades, Carson
was performing surgery. He was concentrating on his life-saving occupation. Few
doctors have much spare time to devote to in depth study of political issues
and foreign policy controversies. So while Dr. Carson is a highly intelligent
man, and probably a quick learner as he states, he is still on a learning curve
about foreign policy.
2. Donald Trump’s “Muslim” data base
The liberal media are at war with Donald Trump but,
surprisingly, Trump does not have all of his defenses engaged. Trump is an experienced
media personality. But he is not an experienced candidate. There is a vast difference between the two. Politicians survive
in office for decades because their guard is always up. Trump’s guard is not
up.
I have watched the “Muslim data base” tapes several times. It
is clear to me that Trump thought he was being asked about a database of
illegal immigrants or Syrian refugees. Trump was briskly walking along a rope line.
He should have known better than to answer a “rope line” question. Experienced
politicians seldom do that, precisely because of the predicament Trump is now
in: the potential for misunderstanding. Trump answered the same question
moments later and made it clear he was speaking about illegals. Looked at in
context, the accusation that Trump advocated a "Muslim data base" is
absurd. But the media were able to create a firestorm over the false claim
Trump had endorsed a “Muslim data base.”
Is it any wonder most Americans don’t trust the media?
Nevertheless, if Trump wants to become president he will
have to become more disciplined in responding to shouted questions along rope
lines and during informal situations. My best advice: ignore such questions.
3. Trump and the 9/11 anti-American “celebrations” in New
Jersey
Trump has generated the most controversy with claims that he
watched TV of anti-Americans on the New Jersey
side of the Hudson River celebrating as the World
Trade Center
First, 9/11 is now fourteen (14) years in the past. We are
dealing with history. Tens of
millions of Americans have no recollection of the events of that day. Second,
even people who lived through 9/11 were not glued to their TV sets. Many people
saw only snippets of the actual coverage. Third, we are learning more and more
about the failures of memory under stressful and confusing conditions. As a
lawyer, I have reviewed the developing understandings of memory, recollection,
eyewitness identification, event confusion and just plain memory failure.
I don’t know what Trump saw on TV, but I know what I saw. Or
I think I know. Truth be told, the first time I heard Trump’s claims I thought
I remembered seeing similar anti-American celebrations. I watched the attacks
from a tower in midtown, so I wasn’t watching TV continuously. But with the
gauze of memory and passage of time, reacting casually I thought Trump might be
right.
There were many pictures of people escaping from lower Manhattan
to New Jersey . There were also
pictures of people in the Middle East celebrating the
disaster. Could Trump have mixed together the two at the time? Very possibly. I
am sure Trump was watching TV the way most of us were watching TV, with one eye
on the set and one eye on something else. It would be easy for someone, anyone,
to have watched the continuing stream and mixed in the images of Jersey
and the Middle East .
September 11th was a stressful day for all of us, even if we
were bystanders. Under stress our perception can easily become confused. We can
mix and match emotions, scenes, reactions and beliefs until they all become one
seamless narrative in our minds.
What makes Trump’s claim seen more confusing is that even if
we do not claim to have seen what he saw on TV, almost all of us can believe that there were anti-American
people in Jersey who were sympathizing with the
terrorists. The original 1993 attack on the World
Trade Center New Jersey .
The fact of anti-American Muslims
operating from Jersey and targeting the World
Trade Center
If you mix all of these mental impressions together under
stress, it would be easy for someone to testify in court “I saw them
celebrating on TV as the twin towers fell.”
I did not see anti-Americans on TV celebrating as the World
Trade Center
But it would not surprise me if those celebrations actually
took place. It is easy to be confused about confusing situations.
President George W. Bush was correct when he said after 9/11
that “Islam is not the enemy.” But all of our enemies who are attacking Western
Civilization are radical Muslims. We cannot deny the obvious. That is why
President Obama is derided for being unwilling to say “radical Islam.” Radical Islam is the enemy. On
that issue, Trump is 100% correct, and I agree with him 100%.
Hopefully my thoughts may be of some help in understanding
recent and ongoing controversies.
Andy Martin
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Andy has also been a leading corruption fighter in American
politics and courts for over forty-five years and is executive director of the
National Anti-Corruption Policy Institute. See also www.FirstRespondersOnline.us; www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com.
He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of
Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City
University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).
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of “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” [www.OrangeStatePress.com] and produced the
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