Green Book Writer Nick Vallelonga Apologizes for Anti-Muslim Tweet
Green Book screenwriter Nick Vallelonga has apologized for posting a tweet backing a debunked conservative narrative that American Muslims could be seen cheering after 9/11.
"@realDonaldTrump 100% correct," the screenwriter tweeted Nov.
25, 2015.
"Muslims in Jersey City cheering when towers went down.
I saw it, as you did, possibly on local CBS news." (At a political rally, Donald Trump said, "Hey, I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down.
And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down.
Thousands of people were cheering." At the time, ABC's George Stephanopoulos challenged the presidential candidate on...
