During a signing ceremony for the 9/11 victim compensation fund bill on Monday morning, President Donald Trump once again repeated the lie that he had been “down there” at Ground Zero after the World Trade Towers were attacked with two planes hijacked by terrorists affiliated with Al Qaeda.
AlterNet reports that Trump told first responders who were in the Rose Garden for the ceremony:
“Many of those affected were fire fighters, 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.”
This isn’t the first time Trump has told this lie, according to Mediaite:
At a 2016 rally in Buffalo, NY, Trump said this:
“Everyone who helped clear the rubble — and I was there, and I watched, and I helped a little bit — but I want to tell you: Those people were amazing. Clearing the rubble. Trying to find additional lives. You didn’t know what was going to come down on all of us — and they handled it.”
The fact-checking website Snopes.com deemed Trump’s claim to be “unproven.”
Twitter users were quick to let Trump know that he, unlike the first responders, isn’t a hero, just a liar and a braggart:
Lie of the day so far… easily verifiable on video tape. What we do know is that he got on tha dir to brag that his building was now the tallest. Not even close to being true.
— Persnickety (@Sunset4215) July 29, 2019
Because it was all for show. Trump made a spectacle of it.
He doesn’t care about 9/11 victims. He lied about seeing people cheer when the buildings failed. He lied and took money that was meant for businesses impacted by the attack.
He’s a disgraceful ? https://t.co/wXhkbFFIko
— kj martin= Out of thots & prayers. GUN CONTROL (@martin_kj) July 29, 2019
That President* Trump is supposedly managing to screw up this morning’s 9-11 first responder funding ceremony shouldn’t surprise anyone given his past history with the event. https://t.co/I2hdq9ofGx
— John Gunn (@JuntoGunto) July 29, 2019
Trump was not “down there” in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. If he were there would be video. He is lying. And it’s a horrible lie in which he attempts to put himself on the same level as the brave men and women who were there risking their lives and their health. https://t.co/8mJiMUIDYV
— Brian Bruce (@BrianBruce7) July 29, 2019
What a piece of shit. It’s always about @realDonaldTrump . Everybody knows that germaphobe & Commander Bone Spur, was no where near the 9/11 site in 2001.
— Bix Beiderbeck (@bix_beiderbeck) July 29, 2019
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