Fact Check: Trump’s Story About Being Carried Away by Firefighters After the 9/11 Attack
Trump repeated a 9/11 anecdote that has no public evidence and conflicts with contemporaneous accounts, as the White House marked the attack's anniversary.
- On Tuesday, President Donald Trump claimed at the White House that firefighters lifted him away from a collapsing building during the days following the September 11th attacks.
- President Trump has for years told unproven stories about his actions after the attacks, including a 2016 claim that he led a crew of 100 workers to the World Trade Center.
- Richard Alles, a retired New York Fire Department official who was present at the site, told The New York Times in 2019 that he never witnessed Trump there and noted no records exist of a 100-person crew.
- While Trump cited fears of collapse at The One Liberty Plaza, rescue workers were evacuated on September 12 and September 14, 2001, with no evidence Trump was among them.
- The Associated Press reported in 2016 that news accounts documented Trump greeting volunteers near the World Trade Center, but investigations find no evidence supporting his rescue claim.
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Fact check: Trump’s story about being carried away by firefighters after the 9/11 attack
President Donald Trump has for years told false or unproven stories about what he supposedly saw and did on 9/11 and soon after. As the 25th anniversary of the terror attack approaches, Trump told another story at the White House on Tuesday — in which he claimed to have been carried away by firefighters amid fears of an imminent building collapse at some point after the attack.
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