During his presidency, Donald Trump talked repeatedly about the terrorist attacks that occurred in the United States on his watch. He sometimes denounced these attacks in vivid detail. In his 2018 State of the Union address, he spoke of "two terrorist attacks in New York" in "recent weeks." He visited Pittsburgh and El Paso after terror attacks there. He invited survivors of a California attack to the White House. Now, though, he keeps saying he presided over no terror attacks at all.
Throughout his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump has lied that there were zero terror attacks during his presidency. He delivered a slightly vaguer version of the claim in his campaign announcement speech in 2022, made the claim explicit by 2023, repeated it at the CNN presidential debate in June, and said it again at a campaign rally on Monday.
"We didn't have one terror attack during my administration," he said at the rally in Pennsylvania.
Facts First: Trump's claim is false. There were numerous terror attacks during his presidency, including high-profile jihadist attacks in his hometown of New York City. Terror attacks under Trump killed dozens of people.
An Islamic extremist murdered eight people in an October 2017 terrorist attack in New York City, which the extremist carried out in support of the terror group ISIS. Trump spoke repeatedly as president about the horrors of this attack, calling the perpetrator an "animal" and lamenting how surviving victims suffered severe injuries.
"Trump won't stop telling no terror attacks lie under him"
Convenient if one forgets about, if nothing else, the insurrection Trump caused.
But why should he stop lying? It's not like anyone has ever held a GOPher to account for lying through their teeth.
Fox analyst Dana Perino: "We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush's term."archive.thinkprogress.org November 25, 2009
Of course, the terror attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center occurred on Sept. 11, 2001 - eight months into President Bush's first term. But also, conservatives like to claim that the Bush administration prevented any terror incidents in the U.S. since 9/11. But they conveniently forget the anthrax attacks on U.S. news organizations and members of Congress over the course of several weeks beginning on Sept. 18, 2001.
I guess the Bowling Green massacre was not considered a terrorist act. Glad that was put to rest ...
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