Lawrence O'Donnell Fact-Checks Trump's 'Most Vile Lie' About 9/11
By: Donald Trump (HuffPost)
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MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell accused Donald Trump of trying to "steal the grief" of those who lost loved ones in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack.
"Donald Trump has been lying about 9/11 since 9/11," O'Donnell said on Monday night. "Here is Donald Trump's most vile lie about 9/11."
He played a clip of Trump claiming during a Republican debate that he "lost hundreds of friends" on 9/11.
O'Donnell said it was a lie ― and noted that he called Trump out over it at the time.
Trump during a subsequent appearance altered it to losing "many, many friends," but O'Donnell said that was a lie too.
"Donald Trump lost zero friends on 9/11," he said. "Donald Trump attended zero funerals of 9/11 victims. Zero. But Donald Trump tried to steal the grief of all of the families who lost someone on 9/11."
O'Donnell noted that United Airlines Flight 93 was potentially headed for the U.S. Capitol on that morning, but instead crashed in a Pennsylvania field after the passengers revolted.
Then, he played footage of Jan. 6 attackers breaking into the Capitol just steps away from a plaque honoring those aboard that flight for stopping the attack.
"In the 21st century, only two groups have tried to attack the United States Capitol: al-Qaida, led by Osama bin Laden, and Trump supporters, led by Donald Trump," he said. "Only the Trump attackers actually did damage to the Capitol."
For those tempted to defend Trump about this, the answer is very simple - Trump can give the names of the 9-11 victims whose funerals he attended, and/or he can give the names of his "friends" who were killed in the collapse of the World Trade Center. He has never done either of those things, because he can't. If he claims John Smith was a friend of his and John Smith's widow says "hell no", Trump looks worse than he looks now. So he leaves bad enough alone.
We have people on here almost gleeful that Biden said he was at the WTC site the day after when it appears he wasnt. They want people to vote against Biden for such things.
They might say something like "I will never vote for someone who lied about being at the 9-11 site the next day if they werent"
but those same people will vote for Trump whose lie about 9-11 was arguably much more serious.
The argument from the left is now Biden = trump
They still pretend somehow Brandon is still better than Trump.
And the argument from the right is "don't vote for Biden he is as bad as Trump" (in their minds), but the right did and will vote for Trump anyway.
Lawrence O'Donnell is angry old buffoon who can't be taken seriously. Trump's comments about 9/11 are irrelevant,
On the other hand Biden's vile lie about being at ground zero was despicable. Biden's political life has been one lie and plagiarism after another. for a good 50 years. It continues to this very day. There is ample evidence that he is guilty of bribery, influence peddling, money laundering, and interfering in the affairs of foreign countries.
Angry and bitter partisans on the left are still trying to milk the unplanned and unorganized J6 event as an end of the world moment, when all it did was delay an election ceremony.
Objectivity