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11 September 2026

Trump claims firefighters carried him from ground zero days after 9/11 attack 9SEP26

THIS just proves NOT MY pres drumpf/trump is a sick, twisted drippings ( the best part of him ran down someone's or something's leg ). It is so disgusting he actually feels it it appropriate for him to try to manipulate the sacred memory of the thousands of victims of the 9/11 2001 attacks and aftermath so that he would be the center of attention on this, the 25th anniversary of these terrorist attacks. His extreme narcissism, psychopathy and sociopathy are on full display, and are generating the revulsion and anger across the country and the world he deserves. This from ABC News

Trump claims firefighters carried him from ground zero days after 9/11 attack

Trump said there were fears a nearby building would collapse during his visit.

ByFritz Farrow and Nicholas Kerr

September 9, 2026, 5:33 PM

President Donald Trump, at an event earlier this week honoring those who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attack, claimed that firefighters carried him away from ground zero when he visited the site in the days after the 9/11 attacks. It’s part of an evolution of the president's claims about his involvement in events in the days and weeks following the attack.

"I was building a big building in New York, and I took the whole crew down there right after this happened," Trump said during Tuesday’s Tunnel to Towers Foundation's event, repeating one of his claims that he brought hundreds of construction workers to ground zero after the 9/11 attack.

"The United States Steel building was creaking, really creaking, and we thought it was going to fall down," Trump said of what appeared to be a wobbly building, now known as One Liberty Plaza, nearby.

"We thought it was coming down on top of us, and two firemen, big, strong guys. And I'm not the smallest guy in the world. They grabbed me under the arms, said, 'Got to get out of here.' And they literally lifted me up. This is not easy to do. I’m big. They lifted me up and they started running with me,” Trump continued.

White House spokesperson Davis Ingle said Trump was "relaying his experience of a city reeling" in the aftermath of the attacks, but shared no proof the incident occurred. Ingle pointed to online posts from the president on Tuesday night of images of him in New York City in the days after the attacks.

Trump's posts were prompted after New York Magazine called his story about the firefighters a "weird lie about where he was on 9/11."

"I was there, obviously not on the same day as the collapse, but shortly thereafter, with a large group of Construction Workers,” Trump posted on social media on Tuesday, adding of his speech earlier in the day, "everything I said was exactly accurate."

It is not the first time Trump has told a version of this story, though there is no evidence it happened.

"I've never seen anything like I saw, and they heard a screech, and everybody thought that the U.S. Steel building was coming down and it was not so far from us," Trump said at a campaign event in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in January 2016. "And these two guys there were massive guys, two really big -- because I'm a big guy and they grabbed me. I must tell you, honestly, I never knew I could run that fast."

Over the years, Trump has made several other unsubstantiated claims about 9/11. One of those was that he saw the attack firsthand, though Trump Tower is four miles away from the site.

"I was looking out from a building in midtown Manhattan directly at the World Trade Center when I saw a second plane, at a tremendous speed, go into the second tower," Trump said at an anniversary event in 2019.

He also claimed to witness thousands of Muslim celebrating the attack.

"Hey, I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down. And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down," Trump told rally goers in Birmingham, Alabama, in 2015. "Thousands of people were cheering."

It has never been confirmed that those massive celebrations happened, and Trump's campaign at the time failed to provide proof.

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Giuliani told Mamdani to stay home on 9/11. Mamdani came, shook his hand, and stood with four presidents. 

Twenty-five years ago nineteen al-Qaeda hijackers murdered 2,977 people, among them 343 firefighters who climbed the towers while everyone else ran down. Osama bin Laden called the killing holy war and justified it with grievances over American troops in Saudi Arabia and U.S. policy in the Middle East. 

Muslim leaders from Cairo to Tehran condemned it.

The wars that followed killed hundreds of thousands of people overseas. At home, New York's Muslims paid too. 

With help from the CIA, the NYPD built a unit that mapped where they lived, shopped, and prayed, put informants in mosques and student groups, and listened in at their cafes. In 2012 the head of the intelligence division admitted under oath that it had never produced a single terrorism lead. The unit was shut down in 2014.

Last November the city elected a 34-year-old Muslim from Queens as mayor.

This month the men who led New York that day said he should stay away: Giuliani, former Gov. George Pataki, and Thomas Von Essen, the fire commissioner in 2001. A man whose wife died in the attacks started a petition that passed 100,000 signatures.

Giuliani went further. He said the mayor doesn't agree 9/11 was an Islamic terrorist attack, and said of Muslims, "they want to dominate us." Curtis Sliwa, the Republican Mamdani beat, called the push to keep him out "ridiculous."

Mamdani said the day belonged to the families and first responders, and he spent the week with them. On September 2 he stood at FDNY headquarters in Brooklyn as 36 more names went on the department's World Trade Center wall. Those members were killed by what they breathed on the pile. 

The wall now holds 438 names, more than the 343 who died on the day. "You ran toward horror so that others could run toward home," he told them.

On Tuesday he released 170,000 pages of city records on that air. They include 68 boxes the city said it couldn't locate for years despite public-records requests. One October 2001 memo to Giuliani's deputy mayor braced for as many as 10,000 lawsuits over toxic exposure and laid out ways to limit the city's liability. "People got sick because the leaders they trusted lied," Mamdani said. 

This morning he posted a video. "September 11th was a horrific act of terror," it opens. "2,753 universes gone in an instant."

Then he went to Ground Zero, where four former presidents sat for the reading of the names. He found Giuliani in the crowd and put out his hand. ABC7's camera was rolling. Five days after telling the mayor to stay home, Giuliani shook it.

We will never forget September 11: the 2,977 people murdered, and the firefighters who kept dying of the air long after the towers fell. A Muslim mayor standing with the families this morning is a testament to the spirit of an America that refuses to hand the killers what they wanted, a country divided by fear of its own neighbors.

Five days after telling him to stay home, Giuliani shook his hand.

14 July 2026

He Says He Killed a Man. Republicans Nominated Him Anyway. 13JUL26

THIS is just typical fascist, typical neo-nazi, and so typical republican politics. These are the kinds of people who let franco and mussolini and hitler and drumpf/trump take power and destroy democracy ( drumpf/trump-vance and the gop / greed over people-republican party are still working on that last part ). This from the New York Times.....

He Says He Killed a Man. Republicans Nominated Him Anyway.

July 13, 2026

By Michelle Goldberg

Opinion Columnist

The right-wing preacher turned politician Victor Marx has said that he first killed a man when he was 7. He’s not sure how many deaths he’s been responsible for since. Marx has been arrested at least twice for disorderly conduct and has described terrorizing a psychiatrist with talk of murdering him. He told the Colorado journalist Kyle Clark that he can perform exorcisms by phone. On Thursday he was declared the winner of the Republican gubernatorial primary in Colorado.

Marx is the sort of character Carl Hiaasen might have conjured if he took mushrooms and wandered into a Pentecostal church. He’s the son of a man named Karl Marx — really — who invented a form of “Cajun karate.” (Victor apparently holds a seventh-degree black belt.) The younger Marx calls himself a “high-risk humanitarian,” and tells stories of charging into war zones to perform acts of Christian rescue. At one point his website claimed he’d saved over 40,000 women and girls from sex trafficking, though under scrutiny, he amended that figure to “more than one and less than a bunch.” Reporters have also been unable to find evidence of his purported childhood homicide, which he says he committed at the insistence of an abusive stepfather.

These discrepancies haven’t stopped Marx from building a brand out of action-movie evangelicalism. Charlie Kirk wrote the foreword to his 2024 book, “The Dangerous Gentleman.” Marx’s website reportedly used to sell a $99 guide to spiritual warfare, teaching users how to cast out demons. He and his wife were involved in what appears to be a multilevel marketing company hawking vitamins. And now he has become the latest political outsider to catapult past party gatekeepers and win a nomination for an important office.

Marx’s close victory in a three-way primary has some Colorado Republicans despairing. Given how blue the state has become, the G.O.P. never had much hope of winning the governorship, but Republicans told me that having Marx at the top of the ticket could put some statehouse and congressional races in danger. “He’s going to do absolute destruction to all the candidates down ballot,” said Darcy Schoening, a former Moms for Liberty activist and a state party delegate who runs an anti-Marx website. His campaign has divided the Colorado right, leaving relationships in tatters. “This election season, most people probably lost more friends than they ever have in any other cycle,” said Schoening.

The elevation of Marx is, in part, a story about the right-wing revolution eating its own. Two years ago, I wrote about the schisms among Colorado Republicans as MAGA forces took over the party, making the fanatically anti-gay Dave Williams party chair. When I first learned about Marx, I assumed he was part of the same faction as Williams, but I was wrong. Jimmy Sengenberger, a conservative columnist for The Denver Gazette, told me that much of Williams’s camp lined up behind Scott Bottoms, a hard-right state legislator who is, like Marx, a pastor, though one with a lower profile. “Those who are involved in the party, they really want to have control over the party,” said Sengenberger. But they seem to have lost it; in the primary, Bottoms came in third.

It’s easy for liberals like me to feel smug about this Republican fiasco. But the ridiculous rise of Victor Marx is the product of trends that, having transformed the Republican Party, are beginning to show up in Democratic primaries as well. When I asked Republicans how Marx had won, they described his charisma and social media reach, as well as voters’ contempt for professional politicians. “Victor Marx did a very good job of marketing himself as an outsider, as an answer to some of the angst Republicans have in Colorado,” said Chuck Broerman, a Republican official in El Paso County. “He has a great social media following,” Broerman added, and there was a bandwagon effect online. Marx, he said, “created a vehicle for people to focus their emotional energy.”

Speaking to Broerman, it was hard not to see at least faint parallels to emerging dynamics in parts of the Democratic Party. In Texas, the antisemitic sex therapist Maureen Galindo made it into a runoff for a congressional seat and, even after she proposed imprisoning Zionists, got more than a third of the vote. The New York socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier beat out the aging progressive Adriano Espaillat, and though not nearly as toxic as Galindo, other Democrats still had to answer for her outré positions, including her refusal to say that murderers should be imprisoned.

Schoening said some in Colorado are comparing Marx to Graham Platner. I would never go that far; Platner’s faults required digging, while Marx’s unfitness should have been evident from his public pronouncements. Still, Marx demonstrates what can happen when voters, feeling apocalyptic, disdain concerns about expertise and electability and let themselves be guided by their id. Many of us have welcomed the rise of a Democratic Tea Party, in no small part because the Tea Party was very effective at moving the country in its ideological direction. But once started, the process of voter radicalization isn’t easy to modulate.

If Democrats have taken a step or two down this road, Republicans have been racing down it for years. That’s part of the reason Marx hasn’t received as much national attention as his eccentric biography might warrant. It scarcely counts as news when Republicans nominate a con man who claims to have God on his side while fetishizing violence. In “The Dangerous Gentleman,” Marx emphasizes that despite all his escapades, he’s just an ordinary guy. “In the very near future, there will be thousands of people like me around the world,” he wrote. You might take that as a warning.

Michelle Goldberg has been an Opinion columnist since 2017. She is the author of several books about politics, religion and women’s rights and was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for public service in 2018 for reporting on workplace sexual harassment.

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11 September 2026