A Personal Journey to Reality

[Carsten Wiethoff]

[FONT=&amp]Channel 9: "There is a great deal of questions about whether or not the damage and the ultimate destruction of the buildings was caused by the airplanes, by architectural defect or possibly by bombs, or after-shocks. Do you have any thoughts on that?"
Donald Trump: "It wasn't architectural defect. The World Trade Center was always known as a very, very strong building. Don't forget that it took a big bomb in the basement [in 1993]. Now the basement is the most vulnerable place, because that is your foundation and it withstood that. And I got to see that area about 3 or 4 days after it took place, because one of my structural engineers actually took me for a tour because he did the building. And I said I can't believe it'. The building was standing solid and half of the columns were blown out. This was an unbelievably powerful building if you know anything about structure. It was one of the first buildings that was built from the outside. The steel, the reason the WTC had such narrow windows is that in between all the windows you had steel on the outside of the building. That's why when I first looked at it you had big, heavy I-beams. When I first looked at it I couldn't believe it because there was a hole in the steel. And this was steel that was … you remember the width of the windows of the World Trade Center, folks, I think that you know, if you were ever up there, they were quite narrow and in between was this heavy steel. I said: How could a plane, even a 767 or 747 or whatever it might have been, how could it possibly go through the steel? I happen to think that they had not only a plane, but they had bombs that exploded almost simultaneously. [italics mine]. Because I just can't imagine anything being able to go through that wall. Most buildings are built with the steel on the inside around the elevator shafts. This one was built from the outside, which is the strongest structure you can have. And it was almost just like a can of soup."
Channel 9: "You know…we were looking at pictures all morning long of that plane coming into Building #2. And when you see that approach the far side, then all of a sudden within another millisecond the explosion pops out the other side."
Donald Trump: "Right. I just think that there was a plane with more than jet fuel." [italics mine]
Donald Trump may be extremely controversial and all things for all people. But one thing the former real estate developer and current President of the United States does know about is building construction.[/FONT]

In these lines I agree with Trump or at least I think that is an honest assessment by him, which essentially conforms to reality.
Would, today, be repeating similar lines by anyone, say Hillary Clinton, be controversial? Why?