Tag: Trump 9-11 lies

#LostTrumpHistory: Trump’s 9/11 claims become a George Conway-pushed meme

Washington Post logoAnd the tweets are so funny.

President Trump, who this month told Americans about the airports taken over in the Revolutionary War, had a new contribution to the historical record Monday at the signing of the Sept. 11 victims compensation fund extension.

“Many of those affected were firefighters, police officers and other first responders. And I was down there also, but I’m not considering myself a first responder. But I was down there. I spent a lot of time down there with you,” he said to a Rose Garden crowd that included 9/11 first responders.

There is no evidence that Trump went to Ground Zero after the 2001 terrorist attacks, but the president does have a long history of inserting himself into it, as The Fix’s JM Rieger details here.

View the complete July 30 article by Gillian Brockell on The Washington Post website here.

Trump Is Lying About 9/11 — Again — to Defend His Abominable Behavior

Any president of the United States should know better.

Credit: Michael Candelori

During his presidential campaign, President Donald Trump faced heavy criticism for repeatedly lying when he claimed that he saw “thousands” of “Arabs” celebrating in New Jersey when the Twin Towers fell on 9/11. This was widely panned as an outrageous lie — and a deeply racist one at that — and yet his campaign continued and eventually succeeded.

Now that he’s president and under fire for his reaction to multiple hateful and terrorizing attacks this week, he’s taken to lying about 9/11 again.

In addition to the criticism saying Trump stokes irrational and bigoted climate among his followers, many noted that he continued to hold his starkly partisan campaign rallies, despite a need for national unity in the wake of the attacks. To defend this decision, Trump said at a rally on Saturday:

View the October 28 article by Cody Fenwick on the AlterNet.org website here.