As America recognizes the 22nd anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, supporters of former President Donald Trump have resurfaced footage of an interview he gave that day where he states he paid “hundreds” of his own employees to search for survivors amid the rubble.
President Trump, a native New Yorker, told a local TV station that he had “hundreds of men working inside right now” to locate fellow residents who were in the two towers when they were struck by commercial airplanes flown by terrorists, causing both to collapse. While no exact estimate is available on the number of survivors from each tower, President Trump said his staff saved the lives of at least five first responders.
Trump paid men to dig through the rubble after 9/11:
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) September 11, 2023
"I have hundreds of men inside. They've never done work like this. The great thing is when they find someone alive like the 5 fireman they just found. But generally speaking that's not the case." pic.twitter.com/3ptFSaegFU
While in office, President Trump signed into law compensation for 9/11 victims running through the year 2092, essentially guaranteeing they would never run out of money supporting their ongoing health struggles including cancer sustained from the inhalation of toxic dust and chemicals. In 2020 he signed an additional $2 million in funding for the National September 11 Memorial & Memorial Plaza to provide critical support for the continued operation, maintenance and security of the memorial and museum.
“I just went to Ground Zero. I’ve never seen anything like it, the devastation, the human life that’s been just wasted,” the former president told another reporter the day of the attacks.
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