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Each time President Trump tells us what he saw and did on the day of the attacks, his actions in the aftermath become even more courageous.
Post rescued after Russian cyber attack on original website – Fair and Unbalanced.
Republished from 9/15/2019:
[Please note: The following does not include Trump’s latest revelations of his selfless, heroic exploits on that horrific day.]
This year offered a new milestone in the saga of 9/11. Someone born on that day can now register to vote. It has been 18 years.
At a Pentagon ceremony, President Trump was modest about his own heroic actions on the day of the attack.
This seemed to contradict the version presented on that day, as Mr. Trump was interviewed in the hours after the second tower of the World Trade Center fell. He made no mention then of having been at the scene. He relayed to television anchors information he said he was getting by telephone by an employee who was a few blocks away from the collapsed buildings.
Richard Alles was a Fire Department battalion chief who later became deputy chief with the New York City Fire Department. He was at the scene within 20 minutes after the attack, supervising rescue efforts. He was asked about how Mr. Trump and his crew had helped at that dangerous time.
It could be a collapsing of timelines. 18 years is long enough to get days confused. Two days after the attacks, Mr. Trump told a German newscast that he had, that day, been to the attack site for the first time.
Still, even two days later, actively working at the site was an act of courage. Not every injury caused by the 9/11 attacks in 2001 happened on 9/11. In the days following, the priority was to find and save survivors. But officials were mindful of the dangers that still existed. As Mr. Trump explained to the German reporter two days after the attack:
Precautions were taken wherever possible to protect workers and the public from further injuries, but the work was dangerous. Years later, John Feal spoke by phone to a reporter tracking down rumors surrounding the attacks.
John Feal had such a badge. He was a construction demolition expert who worked on the site in the aftermath. A falling beam crushed his foot. His leg had to be amputated. He has no memory of a Trump led contingent of workers. And there is no record of badges being issued to Mr. Trump or a Trump contingent of hundred of employees.
What records are available, from the Trump organization at the time, indicate a couple of dozen employees, none of them construction workers.
There are other details my President’s narration this year that, taken by themselves, may demonstrate only tiny ripples of memory slanted over time. But when many such ripples combine with an unfortunate reputation of falsehoods, can become a sweeping tsunami of unbelieved claims.
The boiler story is odd. Reporters have found no contemporary broadcast reports that match. In fact, the earliest, otherwise very confused, reports included the plane collisions.
From CNBC:
No theories of boiler fires. None about a kitchen explosion.
Mr. Trump tells us he was sitting in his apartment watching television when reports of the attack began. He was at his window in time to witness the second plane hit.
At a campaign rally in 2015, Mr. Trump added a little more drama. He had watched from the window of his New York apartment, and saw victims jumping from the towers to their deaths. It turns out his apartment was four miles away, making his eyesight a medical marvel. Intervening buildings make even his eye-witness claims of the second plane strike less plausible.
What seems more likely is his initial interview the morning of the attacks:
No eye witnessing. Someone was telling him about it.
Maybe.
It is an unfortunate irony that the 9/11 narrative we are asked to believe comes just a week after sharpie-gate. A coverup of what started as an innocent mistake by a President, and eventually morphed into lies backed by threats of retribution by the Secretary of Commerce, the Presidential Chief of Staff, and the President himself.
Trump’s 9/11 heroism is an appealing image. Genuine rescuers joined by a future President of the United States. A business executive rushing through the smoke as others were fleeing in the opposite direction. A leader risking his own well being to shift through the rubble, rescuing survivors.
And then, there is the interview two days later:
Yeah, certainly true.
Never happened also sounds likely.
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