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Former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at Trump Tower in Manhattan on August 22, 2021 in New York City. (James Devaney/GC Images)

Trump notably absent at 9/11 events

Former US President George W. Bush speaks during a 9/11 commemoration at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania on September 11, 2021. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Bush blasts domestic terrorism on 9/11

A passing helicopter creates a cross through the beams of the Tribute in Light as it is tested over lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center in New York City. (Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue looks on during a briefing on the coronavirus pandemic in the press briefing room of the White House. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Trump has a brand new 9/11 story

John Wright - Raw Story

Silhouette on World Trade Center (AP Photo/Gulnara Samoilova)

Trump's Ground Zero claims: No evidence

People applaud as US President Donald Trump, surrounded by September 11 first responders and family members, signs HR 1327, an act to permanently authorize the September 11th victim compensation fund, during a ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, July 29, 2019. (Getty/Saul Loeb)

Controversy surrounds 9/11 bill signing

Demonstration opposing the proposed Islamic community center near ground zero (AP/David Goldman)

Not a mosque, and not at Ground Zero

Rescue workers sift through debris at the scene of what was once the
plaza area of the World Trade Center twin towers, Sept. 24, 2001. (Reuters)

Birth of ground zero

Elizabeth Greenspan

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