18 Years of Donald Trump's 9/11 Lies, Insults, and Slights

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/15-years-of-donald-trumps-911-lies-insults-and-slights

Editor’s Note: On the 18th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, President Donald Trump repeated his lie he visited the ruins of the World Trade Center with employees to “help in any way that we could.” When he ran for president in 2016, Michael Daly held him accountable for lying about America’s darkest day.

Six months after Donald Trump claimed to have lost “hundreds of friends” in the 9/11 attacks, his campaign continues to ignore a request from The Daily Beast that he name even one.

His silence becomes all the more shameful as we come to the 15th anniversary of the day 2,983 innocents were murdered in downtown Manhattan.

“If he has hundreds of friends, he should be able to tell us about them,” remarked a Port Authority police officer who has felt a duty to learn as much as he can about as many of the victims as possible. “If he can tell us about the hundreds of friends he lost, who they were, what kind of [people] they were, I might have some respect for him.”

The only time anybody can remember Trump being down at the September 11 Memorial and Museum was this April, when he made what seemed more like a campaign stop. Those who escorted him noted that he did not seem to pay particular attention to any of the names around the memorial pools or pictures of the victims displayed in the museum. His own math would say that at least a tenth of these people were his friends.

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[Karadeniz]

1. Article omits Trump saying he let some who couldn't get to their apartments stay in TT foyer.

I've never seen confirmation of that. Then the money meant to help the small businesses starved of customers...Trump claimed some of that, I heard.

[Nevilledog]

2. I've never heard that one. He's grotesque.