Donald Trump Claims He Was Pulled From Ground Zero After 9/11 Attack. But Was He?
Records show Trump was miles from the World Trade Center on 9/11 and no public evidence supports his claim of being carried away by firefighters.
- On Tuesday, President Donald Trump claimed at a Tunnel to Towers Foundation event that firefighters carried him away from Ground Zero after 9/11 amid fears of an imminent building collapse.
- Trump has repeatedly shared this unsubstantiated story, implying he was inside the unstable One Liberty Plaza, though no public evidence confirms his presence at the site during that time.
- Retired New York Fire Department battalion chief Richard Alles noted that if Trump had sent a crew of 100 workers to help, 'there would be a record of it,' which does not exist.
- White House spokesperson Davis Ingle defended the president, stating he was 'relaying his experience of a city reeling,' while criticizing media scrutiny of the claims.
- This incident continues a long-standing pattern of unsubstantiated claims from Trump regarding his involvement in 9/11 events, including past assertions about witnessing thousands celebrating and seeing the attack firsthand from Midtown Manhattan.
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Trump says firefighters carried him to safety after 9/11. What do we know about his Ground Zero role?
Trump was near Ground Zero days after the attacks. But evidence remains lacking for his claims that he aided recovery efforts and brought hundreds of workers.
US President Donald Trump has repeatedly described how he helped in New York after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that killed 2977 people. Last Tuesday, he colorfully described how he was carried out of the unstable building by firefighters. The president's claim was disputed by both his nephew Fred and the then-commander of the intervening firefighters. The details of Trump's narrative from that time have changed over the years, and …
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