Before signing a bill granting compensation to 9/11 first responders, President Donald Trump informed those assembled in the Rose Garden that though he doesn’t consider himself a first responder, he was “down there.”
He was there. Right. Sure. Being interviewed on Fox who could not wait to call 9/11 a government conspiracy.
trump is a coward. He’d be wetting his pants under his bed then blame the mess on the dog. If he ever had a dog that wouldn’t run away. At least Guilliani WAS there, to his credit.
Germaphobe Trump who can’t stand coughing in the same room as him going down to clear rubble? More like he cleared his bowl of Fruity Pebbles. It would take a gallon of hand sanitizer to wash off the dust from clearing everything.
Of course, his super hearing was so focused on those Muslims over in Jersey cheering…
Outrage sells. Fox figured that out a long time ago. Why else would all these old, unemployed, white guys sit around in their bathrobes all day yelling at the TV set?
Trump wasn’t the most dangerous person involved with post-9/11 activities. Christie Whitman contributed mightily to the problems John Stewart insisted be addressed:
Public Misled on Air Quality After 9/11 Attack, Judge Says
Christie Whitman, when she led the Environmental Protection Agency, made “misleading statements of safety” about the air quality near the World Trade Center in the days after the Sept. 11 attack and may have put the public in danger, a federal judge found yesterday.
“The allegations in this case of Whitman’s reassuring and misleading statements of safety after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks are without question conscience-shocking,” Judge Batts said.
Mrs. Whitman knew that the towers’ destruction had released huge amounts of hazardous emissions, Judge Batts found. But as early as Sept. 13, Mrs. Whitman and the agency put out press releases saying that the air near ground zero was relatively safe and that there were “no significant levels” of asbestos dust in the air. They gave a green light for residents to return to their homes near the trade center site.
“By these actions,” Judge Batts wrote, Mrs. Whitman “increased, and may have in fact created, the danger” to people living and working near the trade center. Judge Batts said that Mrs. Whitman was not entitled to immunity because she was a public official. Judge Batts allowed the suit to proceed on some counts against the E.P.A. She dismissed claims against Marianne L. Horinko, an assistant administrator of the E.P.A. at the time.