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Rudy Giuliani attempts to gaslight America about Hillary Clinton and September 11
https://thinkprogress.org/rudy-giuliani-hillary-clinton-september-11-2001-8304957e8604During a Donald Trump rally Wednesday afternoon in Ocala, Florida, Rudy Giuliani used the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against Hillary Clinton in a very dishonest way.
Giuliani, New York City’s mayor at the time, made a case that Clinton doesn’t “belong to our very, very tight group of ‘never forget’” because the then-New York senator wasn’t actually at Ground Zero on the day the World Trade Center buildings came down....
As far as ThinkProgress could discern, there’s no record of Hillary Clinton ever saying she was at Ground Zero on September 11, 2001. Indeed, Clinton was not in New York City that day. A Politico Magazine report published last month details where she was:
Clinton, meanwhile, was down in Washington, at her home on Whitehaven. She had CNN on as she talked on the phone with her legislative director when the first plane hit. Then the second. By the time she got to the Capitol, the Pentagon had been hit by a third plane. Capitol police were evacuating Senate office buildings. She dialed her daughter, who was in New York. She dialed her husband, who was in Australia. She and other senators received a briefing at the Capitol police station early in the evening. And after “a day indelibly etched in my mind,” and as nightfall approached, Clinton joined congressional colleagues on the steps of the Capitol, standing next to some of her fiercest political opponents, singing “God Bless America” with tears in her eyes.
But as Clinton detailed during a recent interview with CNN, she traveled to Ground Zero the very next day. In fact, numerous photos of her at the site with Giuliani exist.
Giuliani, New York City’s mayor at the time, made a case that Clinton doesn’t “belong to our very, very tight group of ‘never forget’” because the then-New York senator wasn’t actually at Ground Zero on the day the World Trade Center buildings came down....
As far as ThinkProgress could discern, there’s no record of Hillary Clinton ever saying she was at Ground Zero on September 11, 2001. Indeed, Clinton was not in New York City that day. A Politico Magazine report published last month details where she was:
Clinton, meanwhile, was down in Washington, at her home on Whitehaven. She had CNN on as she talked on the phone with her legislative director when the first plane hit. Then the second. By the time she got to the Capitol, the Pentagon had been hit by a third plane. Capitol police were evacuating Senate office buildings. She dialed her daughter, who was in New York. She dialed her husband, who was in Australia. She and other senators received a briefing at the Capitol police station early in the evening. And after “a day indelibly etched in my mind,” and as nightfall approached, Clinton joined congressional colleagues on the steps of the Capitol, standing next to some of her fiercest political opponents, singing “God Bless America” with tears in her eyes.
But as Clinton detailed during a recent interview with CNN, she traveled to Ground Zero the very next day. In fact, numerous photos of her at the site with Giuliani exist.
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