Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump attended the ceremony commemorating the Sept. 11, 2001, assaults held on the 9/11 Memorial & Museum in New York Metropolis.
Harris and Trump shook fingers cordially as different officers, together with President Joe Biden, Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer, and Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and JD Vance appeared on. The transient alternate confirmed no trace of the acrimony between the 2 candidates that was seen on Tuesday night time throughout their debate.
The ceremony honored the practically 3,000 lives misplaced 23 years in the past within the assaults on the World Commerce Middle, the Pentagon, and United Airways Flight 93, in addition to the 1993 assault on the World Commerce Middle that killed six. Family members of these misplaced learn their names, in a convention that goes again to 2002, the 12 months after the assault.
“Today is a day of solemn remembrance as we mourn the souls we lost in a heinous terrorist attack on September 11, 2001,” Harris mentioned in an announcement launched by the White Home. “We stand in solidarity with their families and loved ones. We also honor the extraordinary heroism on display that fateful day by ordinary Americans helping their fellow Americans. We will never forget.”
The second was not with out some controversy, although.
Trump attended the ceremony with conservative pundit and failed congressional candidate Laura Loomer, who has described herself as an “Islamophobe” and as “pro-white nationalism.” In 2023, Loomer promoted a video touting the debunked conspiracy concept that “9/11 was an inside job,” which means that the U.S. authorities supposedly orchestrated the assaults.
Trump additionally has lengthy ties to conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who popularized many false theories in regards to the terrorist assaults.
For a few years, Trump promoted the racist birther conspiracy concept about former President Barack Obama, falsely claimed that local weather change is a “hoax” from the Chinese language authorities, and has continued to advertise the lie that he gained the 2020 presidential election.
