Trump's false or dubious 9/11 claims: 18 years of shameless BS

President Trump marked the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks at a Pentagon ceremony where he revived an evidence-free claim that he rushed to help out at Ground Zero following the attack on the World Trade Center. I spent a lot of time down there with you.” After the ceremony, Richard Alles, a retired deputy New York Fire Department chief who spent months at Ground Zero refuted Trump’s claim to the New York Times. Trump’s claim goes back to at least Sept. 13, 2001, when he told a German television station several blocks away from the Ground Zero site that he had “a lot of men” at Ground Zero. “If we’re defining it as the first wave of people who arrived at ground zero to provide help, he was not in that wave.” O’Brien said that there was no way Trump could have sent more than 100 of his men to the site because at the time the Trump Organization was “a little bit over a dozen people.” “He’s very comfortable propagandizing that event for political purposes,” O’Brien said. “There was a period during which Trump's was the tallest building in Lower Manhattan, but it wasn't immediately before the construction of the World Trade Center in the 1970s,” wrote The Washington Post’s Philip Bump.