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Was Trump at Ground Zero Searching for Survivors Two Days After 9/11 with Workers He Paid For?
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Was Donald Trump at Ground Zero Searching for Survivors Two Days After 9/11 with Workers He Paid For?
A meme echoes President Trump's 2001 comments about having hundreds of workers search for survivors after the terrorist attacks in Lower Manhattan.
BETHANIA PALMA
PUBLISHED 11 SEPTEMBER 2018
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On 11 September 2018, our readers asked for verification of a meme circulating on social media that reported Donald Trump had helped with search-and-rescue efforts in the rubble of the Twin Towers after the 9/11 terrorist attacks 17 years prior: 2 days after the September 11th attacks Donald Trump was at ground zero with hundreds of workers that he payed for to help find and identify victims. Share this photo to remind people exactly what kind of American our President is!
Although the image used in the meme above was taken on 18 September 2001 outside the New York Stock Exchange, the meme reflects comments Trump made two days after the attack, when he told an interviewer for a German television station about his efforts to help:
Trump made similar remarks to an NBC News reporter:
{snip}
Trumps statements were vague, so they didnt provide any specifics that would help verify who the men he referenced were, what their relationship to him was, and whether he paid for their labor, making it difficult to tease out the accuracy of what he said. His claims about what he did and witnessed on the day terrorists flew jetliners into the World Trade Center buildings have been sources of confusion or consternation since the real estate mogul launched his bid to seek the presidency in 2015.
Richard Alles, a retired deputy chief with the New York City Fire Department (FDNY), who now serves as director of 9/11 community affairs for the law firm Barasch McGarry Salzman and Penson, told us that in all the hours, days and months he spent at Ground Zero as an FDNY battalion chief starting 20 minutes after the buildings collapsed, he never witnessed a large group of workers hired by Trump at the site helping with search and rescue. This is the first Im hearing of it, Alles told us by phone. There would have been no need for that. Between police, fire and the construction crews, we had it all covered.
Alles added that the construction crews he saw at Ground Zero who came to help rescue workers were from the trade unions and were not hired by Trump.
....
We reached out to the White House Press Office and the Trump Organization asking for corroborating evidence of these claims but received no response,...
A meme echoes President Trump's 2001 comments about having hundreds of workers search for survivors after the terrorist attacks in Lower Manhattan.
BETHANIA PALMA
PUBLISHED 11 SEPTEMBER 2018
Unproven
Origin
On 11 September 2018, our readers asked for verification of a meme circulating on social media that reported Donald Trump had helped with search-and-rescue efforts in the rubble of the Twin Towers after the 9/11 terrorist attacks 17 years prior: 2 days after the September 11th attacks Donald Trump was at ground zero with hundreds of workers that he payed for to help find and identify victims. Share this photo to remind people exactly what kind of American our President is!
Although the image used in the meme above was taken on 18 September 2001 outside the New York Stock Exchange, the meme reflects comments Trump made two days after the attack, when he told an interviewer for a German television station about his efforts to help:
Well I have a lot of men down here, right now. We have over 100 and we have about 125 coming. So well have a couple of hundred people down here. And they are very brave and what theyre doing is amazing. And well be involved in some form in helping to reconstruct.
Trump made similar remarks to an NBC News reporter:
{snip}
Trumps statements were vague, so they didnt provide any specifics that would help verify who the men he referenced were, what their relationship to him was, and whether he paid for their labor, making it difficult to tease out the accuracy of what he said. His claims about what he did and witnessed on the day terrorists flew jetliners into the World Trade Center buildings have been sources of confusion or consternation since the real estate mogul launched his bid to seek the presidency in 2015.
Richard Alles, a retired deputy chief with the New York City Fire Department (FDNY), who now serves as director of 9/11 community affairs for the law firm Barasch McGarry Salzman and Penson, told us that in all the hours, days and months he spent at Ground Zero as an FDNY battalion chief starting 20 minutes after the buildings collapsed, he never witnessed a large group of workers hired by Trump at the site helping with search and rescue. This is the first Im hearing of it, Alles told us by phone. There would have been no need for that. Between police, fire and the construction crews, we had it all covered.
Alles added that the construction crews he saw at Ground Zero who came to help rescue workers were from the trade unions and were not hired by Trump.
....
We reached out to the White House Press Office and the Trump Organization asking for corroborating evidence of these claims but received no response,...
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Was Trump at Ground Zero Searching for Survivors Two Days After 9/11 with Workers He Paid For? (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Jul 2019
OP
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)1. Recommended.
Trump lied again?
Shocking.
Rebl2
(13,485 posts)2. Fake news
CatMor
(6,212 posts)3. I doubt you could just send people to the sight ..
if you were not with the official work force. Seems to be another disgusting lie by trump. His depravity knows no boundaries.
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)4. This has to be one of the biggest whoppers he's told...
This whopper may just be big enough with plenty of witnesses to refute it that Trump will finally be exposed as the giant liar he is.
I have a feeling his parents got a lot of experience with his lies and why he ended up in military school. Didn't help him, obviously.
Runningdawg
(4,516 posts)5. Trumps people found FIVE FIREFIGHTERS....right
fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)6. If Trump directed anyone to go, he sent them to look for lost change or
to pilfer the pockets of victims. Trump has never had an altruistic thoght in his miserable life.
SharonAnn
(13,772 posts)7. And, with the usual misspelling: "payed"?
world wide wally
(21,740 posts)8. Just more bullshit
Skittles
(153,141 posts)9. liar, it was just Trump trying to make 9/11 all about HIM