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9/11

Friday 19th 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
Democracy The combination of a would-be authoritarian and a major crisis can, therefore, be deadly to democracy. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, How Democracies Die  [because of “rally ’round the flag” effects] © 2018 Kwiple.com
Foreign relations c Biden supposedly values allies. Europe’s chagrin is that Biden could have fulfilled both vows [ending forever wars and rebuilding alliances] if he had closely consulted with them on his Afghan exit. He chose not to. The fact that Nato was there at America’s behest rubbed salt into the wound. The 9/11 attacks marked the only time Nato has invoked its Article V mutual defence clause — following an assault on America, not Europe. Edward Luce, Financial Times, August 24, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say My heart goes out to them. Jay Monahan, PGA Tour commissioner, on families that lost loved ones on 9/11, before selling the PGA to Saudi Arabia for an arm and a leg, perhaps Adnan Khashoggi's © 2023 Kwiple.com
Liars say Many of those affected were firefighters, police officers and other first responders. And I was down there also, but I'm not considering myself a first responder. But I was down there. Donald Trump, when signing a law extending healthcare for real first responders © 2019 Kwiple.com
Presidency Imagine just for a moment, if 9-11 had happened with Donald Trump behind the desk. The first thing he would’ve done was run to the bunker to protect himself. He would’ve put himself first, before the country. And anyone who is unwilling to say that he is unfit to be President of the United States is unfit themselves to be President of the United States. Chris Christie, Windham, NH, January 10, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Selfie My music taste changed on 9/11 … I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music, collectively, it resonated with me. And I have to say, it just is gut-level. I had an emotional reaction that says, “These are my people.” And so, ever since 2001, I listen to country music. Ted Cruz, whose political career is funded mostly by large individual donors and billionaire-backed organizations pandering to country boys © 2015 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say New Jersey was threatened like no other region in this country. Chris Christie, New Jersey governor, on post-9/11 threats of terrorism © 2015 Kwiple.com
 
Snapshot There's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, a verb, and 9/11. Rudy Giuliani portrayed by Joe Biden © 2016 Kwiple.com