Harris marks 9/11 with show of unity with Trump—but he had other plans

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 palms cordially as different officers, together with President Joe Biden, Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer, and Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and JD Vance regarded on. The transient alternate confirmed no trace of the acrimony between the 2 candidates that was seen on Tuesday evening throughout their debate.

The ceremony honored the almost 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 yr after the assault.

“Immediately is a day of solemn remembrance as we mourn the souls we misplaced in a heinous terrorist assault on September 11, 2001,” Harris mentioned in a press release launched by the White Home. “We stand in solidarity with their households and family members. We additionally honor the extraordinary heroism on show that fateful day by unusual Individuals serving to their fellow Individuals. We are going to always remember.”

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 principle that “9/11 was an inside job,” that 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 concerning the terrorist assaults.

For a few years, Trump promoted the racist birther conspiracy principle 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 received the 2020 presidential election. 

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