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

Any president of the United States should know better.

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.