At a signing ceremony to permanently authorize the 9/11 victims compensation fund, Donald Trump once again claimed he somehow ‘helped’ at the World Trade Center site in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.
“I was down there also. I don’t consider myself a first responder, but I was down there. I spent a lot of time down there with you.”
The Washington Post has already debunked this myth: “While Trump did visit the site a couple of days after the attack and did some interviews, there is no evidence that he got down to help clear rubble, which people would certainly have remembered.”
Trump suggests that he was a 9/11 First Responder pic.twitter.com/cFnVkV3wru— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 29, 2019
Trump was not “down there” during 9/11 with first responders, and the only role he played was bragging on TV that he now had the biggest building in NY once the towers fell. Oh and lying about how American Muslims reacted to 9/11. https://t.co/5ZMyudJG4l— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) July 29, 2019
This has long been proven false. What’s more, everything we know about Trump is that his cowardliness would prevent him going toward danger to help anyone. Trump DID, however, take money from the 9/11 business fund and claimed he saw Muslims celebrating the attacks.— Victoria Brownworth 🏳️🌈 (@VABVOX) July 29, 2019
“I was down there also, but I’m not considering myself a first responder,” Trump told 9/11 responders at WH today.Fact check: Trump was near Ground Zero in days after 9/11, claiming he had “100s of men” working to clear rubble, a claim 9/11 responders called dubious
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) July 29, 2019
I was in NYC on 9/11. He was calling in to TV shows, bragging that now he had the tallest building in downtown Manhattan. I’ll never forget it. https://t.co/AEwQyftRYW— kristen johnston (@thekjohnston) July 29, 2019
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