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Thursday 25th of April 2024

9/11 After the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Mr. Trump lined up a $150,000 grant for one of his buildings near ground zero [a 71-story skyscraper 8 blocks away], taking advantage of a program to help small businesses in the area recover, even though he had acknowledged on the day of the attacks that his building was undamaged. New York Times, Sepatember 17, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
9/11  How could anyone with a sense of history find it unbelievable? Siri Hustvedt, Fnancial Times, September 10, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
9/11 Nobody’s gotten to the bottom of 9/11, unfortunately. They should have, as to the maniacs that did that horrible thing, to our city, to our country, to the world. So nobody's really been there. But I can tell you that there are a lot of  really great people that are out here today. And we’re going to have a lot of fun and we’re going to celebrate. Donald Trump, July 28, 2022, defending hosting the Saudi-backed LIV Golf Tournament at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey © 2022 Kwiple.com
9/11 They say there is a lot of people watching. I can’t imagine why. Donald Trump, on memorializing the 20th anniversary of 9/11 by watching him and Junior gigging for an undisclosed sum as ringside commentators for a pay-per-view boxing match in Florida between washed up fighters whose combined ages exceeded 100 © 2021 Kwiple.com
9/11 The US now has 13m citizens with permits to carry concealed firearms, which is more than 12 times the number of police officers. As one lobbyist for the National Rifle Association tells [Evan] Osnos [author of a book being reviewed], the al-Qaeda attacks were a giant windfall for the US gun lobby. The fall of the Twin Towers followed a decade of sharply declining crime rates and lower gun sales. Suddenly there was a new paranoia of terrorists to exploit. Edward Luce, Financial Times, September 11, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
 
9/11 You didn't bring us together, our pain brought us together and our decency brought us together. We would have come together if Bozo was the mayor. Al Sharpton on Rudy Giuliani's role following the attack © 2016 Kwiple.com