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Claim: President Joe Biden claimed in a Sept. 11, 2023 speech that he was in New York City where the World Trade Center towers fell the day after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. (Joe Biden, 2023-09-11)
Evidence (2023-09-11): President Biden, fresh off a four-day trip to Asia, marked the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on Monday by honoring service members and first responders in Alaska. [...] Instead, several Biden administration officials fanned out across Sept. 11 memorial sites to mark the anniversary. Vice President Kamala Harris attended the ceremony at the National September 11 Memorial in New York City. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas and United Nations Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield also attended the New York commemoration, as did Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican presidential candidate, and former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani. [...] Biden praised members of the military and first responders deployed in the days after the terrorist attacks and those who continue to serve, calling them the "soul of the nation."
Claim: President Joe Biden claimed in a Sept. 11, 2023 speech that he was in New York City where the World Trade Center towers fell the day after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. (Joe Biden, 2023-09-11)
Evidence (2021-09-11): President Joe Biden speaks to members of the media as he visits the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Department in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on September 11. [...] President Biden participated in a wreath-laying ceremony at the United 93 memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, to mark the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. [...] President Biden and first lady Jill Biden will travel to all three sites of the 9/11 terrorist attacks today, marking the 20th anniversary of the deadly day, according to the White House.
Claim: President Joe Biden claimed in a Sept. 11, 2023 speech that he was in New York City where the World Trade Center towers fell the day after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. (Joe Biden, 2023-09-11)
Evidence (2023-09-12): Speaking at a military base in Alaska on the anniversary of 9/11, President Joe Biden wrongly said that he visited ground zero in New York City the day after the attack. Biden first visited the site nine days after terrorists flew planes into the twin towers at the World Trade Center. [...] We reached out to the White House press office for clarification, and it sent us a photo of Biden at ground zero on Sept. 20, 2001. We located the photo in the Getty Images archive. It shows Sens. Ted Kennedy, Barbara Mikulski and Biden touring the destruction at the World Trade Center nine days after the terrorist attack. Biden was part of a contingent of 38 U.S. senators who traveled from Washington, D.C., to New York City via Amtrak that day to visit ground zero and to console families of victims, according to a Sept. 20, 2001, CNN story forwarded to us by the White House. The delegation was joined in New York by the state’s two Democratic senators, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles Schumer.
Claim: President Joe Biden claimed in a Sept. 11, 2023 speech that he was in New York City where the World Trade Center towers fell the day after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. (Joe Biden, 2023-09-11)
Evidence (2023-09-11): Biden claims he was at Ground Zero day after 9/11 — but his own book puts him in DC WASHINGTON — President Biden said Monday that he was at the World Trade Center site in New York City one day after the 9/11 attacks — despite his own autobiography placing him in DC. [...] "Ground Zero in New York — I remember standing there the next day and looking at the building. And I felt like I was looking through the gates of hell," Biden told US troops in Anchorage, Alaska, on the 22nd anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
Claim: President Joe Biden claimed in a Sept. 11, 2023 speech that he was in New York City where the World Trade Center towers fell the day after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. (Joe Biden, 2023-09-11)
Evidence (2023-09-12): Fact check: Biden falsely claims he was at Ground Zero 'the next day' after 9/11 During his speech on the anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 attacks, President Joe Biden falsely claimed that he was at Ground Zero the day after the Twin Towers fell in Manhattan. CNN's Daniel Dale breaks down the facts. [...] Biden confident 2024 election will be fair, not so sure it will be peaceful
Claim: President Joe Biden claimed in a Sept. 11, 2023 speech that he was in New York City where the World Trade Center towers fell the day after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. (Joe Biden, 2023-09-11)
Evidence (2023-09-12): Joe Biden incorrectly claimed he was at Ground Zero a day after the September 11 terrorist attacks, despite his own memoir placing him in Washington DC at the time. Addressing US troops on the anniversary of the 2001 attacks, the president said he was at the site of the World Trade Center in Manhattan the day after the building’s famed Twin Towers collapsed. [...] It contradicts the account he gave of his actions after the terrorist attacks, while serving as a senator for Delaware, in his 2007 memoir, Promises to Keep.
Claim: President Joe Biden claimed in a Sept. 11, 2023 speech that he was in New York City where the World Trade Center towers fell the day after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. (Joe Biden, 2023-09-11)
Evidence (2023-09-11): President Joe Biden marked the 22nd anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on Monday, telling servicemembers gathered in Anchorage, "terrorism – including political and ideological violence – is the opposite of all we stand for as a nation." [...] Biden, who has previously marked 9/11 with visits to sites in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, the Pentagon, and Ground Zero in New York acknowledged that though Elmendorf Air Force Base is not "located at Ground Zero, we know the distance did not dull or diminish the pain we felt across the nation of September 11." Biden was speaking at the base as he traveled back from Hanoi, Vietnam, his final stop on a whirlwind trip to Asia to meet with Vietnamese leaders and attend the G-20 summit in New Delhi. [...] "One thing I always admired about John was how he put duty to country first, and that’s not hyperbole, he did," Biden said. "Above party, above politics, above his own person. This day reminds us, we must never lose that sense of national unity. So, let that be the common cause of our time – let us honor September 11 by renewing our faith in one another."
Claim: President Joe Biden claimed in a Sept. 11, 2023 speech that he was in New York City where the World Trade Center towers fell the day after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. (Joe Biden, 2023-09-11)
Evidence (2023-09-11): President Biden spent Sept. 11 far from the sites of terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of 2,977 Americans 22 years ago, opting instead to send his second-in-command to Ground Zero on Monday. Vice President Kamala Harris stood between Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams at a ceremony honoring the victims of the 2001 attacks in Manhattan — as Biden returned from Asia and marked the tragedy later in the day at a military base in Alaska. [...] Biden, 80, left Vietnam Monday morning and didn’t make it to the sites where hijackers flew planes into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon in Virginia, or the site where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pa.
Claim: President Joe Biden claimed in a Sept. 11, 2023 speech that he was in New York City where the World Trade Center towers fell the day after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. (Joe Biden, 2023-09-11)
Evidence (2023-09-11): In a speech to service members and first responders on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, President Joe Biden falsely claimed that he was at Ground Zero the day after the Twin Towers fell in Manhattan. [...] Facts First: Biden was not at Ground Zero the day after 9/11. He actually went to Ground Zero nine days after the attacks. Asked Monday night about the claim, the White House provided a photo and article showing that Biden, then a senator for Delaware, toured Ground Zero on September 20, 2001. A White House official then emailed this comment on condition of anonymity: "The President first visited the World Trade Center nine days after the September 11 terrorist attacks as part of a bipartisan delegation from the Senate."
Claim: President Joe Biden claimed in a Sept. 11, 2023 speech that he was in New York City where the World Trade Center towers fell the day after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. (Joe Biden, 2023-09-11)
Evidence (2024-09-11): Former President Donald Trump will return to Ground Zero on Wednesday, his first appearance at the site since 2015. Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, and President Joe Biden are also set to visit the World Trade Center site in New York City to memorialize the attacks. According to The Hill, Trump is also scheduled to visit a fire station in New York City, and then he will travel to Shanksville, Pennsylvania, for a Flight 93 memorial. [...] Unlike his opponent, Trump has had a much longer history with September 11. He was in New York City on the day of the attack, at his home in the Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, where he watched the events unfold first on TV and then from the window. [...] "There were people that were cheering on the other side of New Jersey, where you have large Arab populations. They were cheering as the World Trade Center came down," he said.
Claim: President Joe Biden claimed in a Sept. 11, 2023 speech that he was in New York City where the World Trade Center towers fell the day after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. (Joe Biden, 2023-09-11)
Evidence (2023-09-11): President Biden claimed Monday, without evidence, that he stood at Ground Zero in New York City viewing the damage from the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks just one day later, despite records showing he was in Washington, D.C. that day. [...] According to a report by The New York Post, Biden also contradicted his own claim in his autobiography detailing his actions after the attacks. Biden said in the book that he "headed back to the Capitol" on September 12, and made no mention of visiting Ground Zero that day. [...] Biden's claim comes as he faces scrutiny from families of 9/11 victims for not visiting any of the sites of the attacks on Monday, and for giving his speech marking the day in Alaska. With the move, he became the first U.S. president in 22 years to neither spend the day at an attack site nor the White House.
Claim: President Joe Biden claimed in a Sept. 11, 2023 speech that he was in New York City where the World Trade Center towers fell the day after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. (Joe Biden, 2023-09-11)
Evidence (2023-10-20): Remarks by President Biden on the United States’ Response to Hamas’s Terrorist Attacks Against Israel and Russia’s Ongoing Brutal War Against Ukraine 8:02 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good evening, my fellow Americans. We’re facing an inflection point in history — one of those moments where the decisions we make today are going to determine the future for decades to come. That’s what I’d like to talk with you about tonight. [...] With me was just a small group of security personnel and a few advisors.
Claim: President Joe Biden claimed in a Sept. 11, 2023 speech that he was in New York City where the World Trade Center towers fell the day after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. (Joe Biden, 2023-09-11)
Evidence (2023-09-12): Former VP Mike Pence said Biden should have been in New York or at the Pentagon. [...] "I was very disappointed that President Joe Biden was not at ground zero or the Pentagon or in Shanksville. Look, I know it's been 22 years, but I think these are moments where the leader of this country has the ability to pay a debt of gratitude, to remember those that were lost the day, but also to remember the heroes that were forged that day, and everyday sense for the last 22 years," he said. [...] Biden commemorated the first responders who rushed to ground zero that day, civilians and service members who responded at the Pentagon and the "patriot" passengers on Flight 93 as well as those who later served in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Claim: President Joe Biden claimed in a Sept. 11, 2023 speech that he was in New York City where the World Trade Center towers fell the day after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. (Joe Biden, 2023-09-11)
Evidence (2024-09-12): After their feisty debate, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump shared a decidedly more somber moment when they joined President Joe Biden and other dignitaries to mark 23 years since the Sept. 11 terror attacks. [...] Throughout the ceremony, six moments of silence were observed, acknowledging when each of the World Trade Center towers was struck and fell, and the times corresponding to the attack on the Pentagon and the crash of United Airlines Flight 93. [...] Tributes and gatherings across New York City and the Tri-State continued into the night, including on Staten Island, where Gov. Kathy Hochul attended the Postcards Memorial, to remember residents in that borough who were killed in the 9/11 attacks. Nearly a quarter of the New York firefighters killed that day were from Staten Island.
Claim: President Joe Biden claimed in a Sept. 11, 2023 speech that he was in New York City where the World Trade Center towers fell the day after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. (Joe Biden, 2023-09-11)
Evidence (2023-09-04): The moment shocked the nation. Two planes, hijacked by Islamic jihadists vowing death to all Americans, plowed into both towers at the World Trade Center in New York. Another plane was flown into the Pentagon in Washington, DC. A fourth plane, presumably headed for the White House or the U.S. Capitol, was heroically diverted by passengers and ended up crashing in an empty field in Pennsylvania. After reports of the first plane hitting the North Tower, millions watched the second plane hit the South Tower on live television. [...] 2:30 PM – Rudy Giuliani, the mayor of New York City, visits the fallen Twin Towers of the World Trade Center at what becomes known as Ground Zero. [...] The tragedy of September 11, 2001 will never be forgotten, and the aftermath is still continuing to unfold. The 9/11 Memorial and Museum opened on the site of the former World Trade Center on September 11, 2011, and features reflecting pools in the footprints of where the Twin Towers once stood.
Claim: President Joe Biden claimed in a Sept. 11, 2023 speech that he was in New York City where the World Trade Center towers fell the day after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. (Joe Biden, 2023-09-11)
Evidence (2023-03-14): As numerous investigations by independent and governmental commissions subsequently found, there was no factual basis for either of these assertions. Two decades later, debate continues about whether the administration was the victim of flawed intelligence, or whether Bush and his senior advisers deliberately misled the public about its WMD capabilities, in particular. [...] Bush delivered this address, among the most memorable of his presidency, just four months after the terrorist attacks in New York City and near Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Americans remained on edge: 62% said they were very or somewhat worried another terrorist attack was imminent. [...] Yet the war continued for another eight years. Public support for the use of U.S. military force in Iraq, which rose to 74% during the month that Bush gave what became known as his "Mission Accomplished" speech, never again reached that level.
Claim: President Joe Biden claimed in a Sept. 11, 2023 speech that he was in New York City where the World Trade Center towers fell the day after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. (Joe Biden, 2023-09-11)
Evidence (2021-08-30): The United States demands that bin Laden be extradited to stand trial for the embassy bombings. The Taliban decline to extradite him. The United Nations punishes Afghanistan with sanctions restricting trade and economic development. March 2001 Ignoring international protests, the Taliban carry out their threat to destroy Buddhist statues in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, saying they are an affront to Islam. Sept. 4, 2001 A month after arresting them, the Taliban put eight international aid workers on trial for spreading Christianity. Under Taliban rule, proselytizing is punishable by death. The group is held in various Afghan prisons for months and finally released Nov. 15. Sept. 9, 2001 Masood, still head of the Northern Alliance and the nation’s top insurgent, is killed by assassins posing as journalists. Sept. 11, 2001 Hijackers commandeer four commercial airplanes and crash them into the World Trade Center Towers in New York, the Pentagon outside Washington, D.C., and a Pennsylvania field, killing thousands. Days later, U.S. officials say bin Laden, the Saudi exile believed to be hiding in Afghanistan, is the prime suspect in the attack. A fireman walks amongst the rubble and the smoldering wreckage of the World Trade Center 11 October 2001 in New York.
Claim: President Joe Biden claimed in a Sept. 11, 2023 speech that he was in New York City where the World Trade Center towers fell the day after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. (Joe Biden, 2023-09-11)
Evidence (2021-11-08): Thousands of people headed for the World Trade Center, a complex of seven buildings that included a pair of skyscrapers known as the twin towers. Each tower had 110 stories and stood about 1,360 feet high. The tallest buildings in New York City at the time, the twin towers rose above the city’s downtown skyline. Nobody there knew that in just a few hours, both buildings would fall. People who live in New York are used to seeing and hearing airplanes flying overhead. But on the morning of September 11, people stopped on the streets and looked up. The sound of an approaching airplane was too loud, and the plane seemed to be flying too low. To the horror of people watching below, the airplane flew straight into one of the twin towers of the World Trade Center. [...] Back in New York City, dark smoke poured from the twin towers. People rushed to escape the area, which later became known as ground zero. First responders—including police officers, firefighters, and paramedics—arrived within minutes of the first attack on the World Trade Center. They rushed into both towers to help people trapped inside, even though it would be an extremely difficult rescue operation. Almost all the elevators in the twin towers had stopped working. So rescuers started climbing up the stairs, but many were blocked by rubble or fire. Still, firefighters forged ahead, ignoring the danger. (Read more about the heroes of 9/11.)
Claim: President Joe Biden claimed in a Sept. 11, 2023 speech that he was in New York City where the World Trade Center towers fell the day after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. (Joe Biden, 2023-09-11)
Evidence (2021-08-30): Interactive by Olivia Angelino, Thomas J. Bollyky, Elle Ruggiero and Isabella Turilli February 1, 2023 Global Health Program - [...] Webinar with Carolyn Kissane and Irina A. Faskianos April 12, 2023 - [...] Event with Vivek H. Murthy and Thomas J. Bollyky September 25, 2024 - Related Sites - More
Claim: President Joe Biden claimed in a Sept. 11, 2023 speech that he was in New York City where the World Trade Center towers fell the day after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. (Joe Biden, 2023-09-11)
Evidence (2024-09-11): Families gather at WTC to honor 9/11 victims, 23 years later by: Emily Rahhal, Kala Rama and James Ford [...] Updated: Sep 11, 2024 / 07:17 PM EDT by: Emily Rahhal, Kala Rama and James Ford Updated: Sep 11, 2024 / 07:17 PM EDT
Claim: President Joe Biden claimed in a Sept. 11, 2023 speech that he was in New York City where the World Trade Center towers fell the day after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. (Joe Biden, 2023-09-11)
Evidence (2023-09-12): Joe Biden has come under fire after claiming to have visited the ruins of the World Trade Center on September 12, 2001, one day after the 9/11 attacks, despite there being no records of the then-senator being in New York at all that day. [...] While there is no record of Biden being at Ground Zero on September 12, 2001, he did give a speech that day to the Senate, during which he said the attackers had managed to unite the civilized world against them. [...] When contacted for comment by Newsweek, a White House spokesperson noted Biden did visit Ground Zero on September 20, 2001 as part of a Senate delegation, but didn't comment on his claim to have been at the site on September 12.
Claim: President Joe Biden claimed in a Sept. 11, 2023 speech that he was in New York City where the World Trade Center towers fell the day after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. (Joe Biden, 2023-09-11)
Evidence (2023-09-11): To mark the 22nd anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, President Joe Biden recalled visiting the site where the World Trade Center towers fell. [...] Joe Biden, remarks in Anchorage, Alaska, Sept. 11, 2023 [...] CNN, Fact check: Biden falsely claims he was at ground zero ‘the next day’ after 9/11, Sept. 11, 2023 9/11 Memorial, Ground zero timeline, accessed Sept. 12, 2023
Claim: President Joe Biden claimed in a Sept. 11, 2023 speech that he was in New York City where the World Trade Center towers fell the day after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. (Joe Biden, 2023-09-11)
Evidence (2021-09-11): Speaking to the nation in a recorded address yesterday from the White House, the president addressed the nation and the families of the 2,977 people from more than 90 nations who were killed that fateful day at the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and a countryside field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania — in addition to the thousands more who were injured. ''America and the world commemorate you and your loved ones — the pieces of your soul,'' Biden said, addressing family members of those who perished that day. [...] The Bidens attended the 20th memorial service today at 1 World Trade Center, at ground zero where the World Trade Center Twin Towers were attacked on 9/11. Also in attendance were former president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama; and former president Bill Clinton and former first lady Hillary Clinton. Former president George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush attended the 9/11 memorial service in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where terrorists overtook United Airlines Flight 93 that day and the plane crashed into a countryside field before it reached its reported destination of the U.S. Capitol.
Claim: President Joe Biden claimed in a Sept. 11, 2023 speech that he was in New York City where the World Trade Center towers fell the day after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. (Joe Biden, 2023-09-11)
Evidence (2023-09-19): On the anniversary of 9/11, social media users resurfaced a claim that former President Donald Trump has often made but has not supported with evidence, about his involvement in search-and-rescue efforts immediately following the terrorist attacks 22 years ago. Conservative activist Benny Johnson shared a Facebook video of an interview Trump gave a couple of days after Sept. 11, 2001. Above the video, Johnson wrote, "Joe Biden spent 9/11 hiding in a bunker. Kamala Harris spent it with her boyfriend Montel (Williams). Donald Trump spent 9/11 marching into a war zone of fire & ashes with an army of his own men to save Americans." [...] On the day of the attacks, Trump called into WWOR-TV, a station serving New York City, and described what he saw from his office in Trump Tower, which was about 4 miles from the World Trade Center.