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Fact Check: No Way Trump Was Anywhere Near Ground Zero After 9/11

Fact Check: No Way Trump Was Anywhere Near Ground Zero After 9/11

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Sep 12, 2019
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by Bob Cesca

One of the lasting injustices of 9/11 is how, for nearly eight years the Bush/Cheney/Rove administration branded post-9/11 patriotism as exclusively a Republican value. Not even Barack Obama's successful hunt for Bin Laden changed all that. Today, 18 years later, it’s wearing off, but the grotesque and unforgivable patriotic branding, despit…

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