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Trump Keeps Lying About Terror Attacks During His Presidency

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.

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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.

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"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."

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.

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#1 | Posted by censored at 2024-09-25 08:10 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Sh*tler won't do an interview off of Faux Nooze and then only with low iq interviewers like Ingraham, Hannity or Gutfeld that are simply -------- for him.

If he does a presser, the pool of reporters get one question which he doesn't give an answer to and then moves to the next reporter and if a follow up is asked trying to press him for an answer he shouts at them that their fake news or stupid or a nasty person.

How such an utterly unqualified ill tempered jagoff came to control the GQP through lies and manipulation is a question historians will ask for centuries.

The man should have been impeached after 1/6 and convicted in the senate, but the GQP are held by the short hairs by putins butt buddy.

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-09-25 11:03 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Say the word:

Dementia

#3 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-09-25 12:55 PM | Reply

Only the subject matter changes. Same old same old.

#4 | Posted by fresno500 at 2024-09-25 01:43 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

What has Orange Fat Puddin' Pie NOT lied about? Seriously.

#5 | Posted by moder8 at 2024-09-25 02:22 PM | Reply

What hasn't he lied about?

#6 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-09-25 02:48 PM | Reply

I guess the Bowling Green massacre was not considered a terrorist act. Glad that was put to rest ...

#7 | Posted by catdog at 2024-09-25 10:42 PM | Reply

This is true. But, to be fair, Trump also thinks Bagram Airforce Base is in Alaska and windmills cause cancer and it's better to be electrocuted than eaten by a shark and Frederick Douglass is still alive.

#8 | Posted by anton at 2024-09-25 11:23 PM | Reply

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