When one Republican presidential candidate for the 2016 election ridiculed the liberalism of "New York values" in January 2016, <answer>Donald Trump</answer>, leading in the polls, vigorously defended his city. The National Review, a conservative magazine published in the city since its founding by William F. Buckley, Jr. in 1955, commented, "By hearkening back to New York's heart after 9/11, for a moment Trump transcended politics. How easily we forget, but for weeks after the terror attacks, New York was America."
What public figure defended New York in January 2016?
Donald Trump