Trump Claims Firefighters Carried Him From Ground Zero Days After 9/11 Attack
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Donald Trump Clarifies Comments About Firefighters 'Lifting' Him Up on 9/11 After Fact-Check But Maintains 'Everything I Said Was Exactly Accurate'
Donald Trump clarified his controversial 9/11 claims of being lifted up by two firefighters following a fact check.
Trump claims firefighters carried him from ground zero days after 9/11 attack
President Donald Trump, at an event earlier this week honoring those who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attack, claimed that firefighters carried him away from Ground Zero when he visited the site in the days after the 9/11…
Fact check: Trump’s story about being carried away by firefighters after the 9/11 attack
CNN’s Daniel Dale takes a closer look at President Trump’s claims that he was carried away by firefighters amid fears of an imminent building collapse shortly after the attack on the World Trade Center.
The first known footage of Trump around the site dates back to September 13, two days after the attacks.
US President Donald Trump was reportedly taken to safety by two firefighters shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York. He made this statement yesterday during a rally in Washington marking the 25th anniversary of the attacks. CNN investigated the claim but found no evidence that the incident took place in this way. According to the news channel, Trump's story can be described as "misleading at best."
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