Topline President Trump has a history of making unfounded claims and misleading statements about the September 11 attacks that begins 19 years ago, on the day of the attack President Donald Trump sits on stage at a 19th anniversary observance of the Sept. 11 terror attacks … [+] in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. AP Photo/Alex Brandon Timeline September 11, 2001Trump claimed in a TV interview that one of the buildings he owns, 40 Wall Street, became the tallest building in downtown Manhattan after the Twin Towers came down, but it’s actually 25 feet shorter than 70 Pine Street, just one block away. November 16, 2015Trump told campaign rally attendees that he predicted 9/11 orchestrator Osama bin Laden would target the Twin Towers in his 2000 book, The America We Deserve, but reports from as early as 1999 prove a possible bin Laden attack was on the radar for U.S. officials. November 21, 2015Trump said during a campaign rally he witnessed Muslims cheering the towers’ collapse from Jersey City, but an exhaustive investigation by the Washington Post, bolstered by interviews with law enforcement, debunked this ever happened. November 23, 2015During another campaign rally, Trump claimed he witnessed people jumping from the towers, even though he said on the day of the attacks he was at home when the planes hit—and Trump Tower is four miles north of Ground Zero. April 12, 2016Trump told Time magazine his organization received a $150,000 federal grant for 40 Wall Street because he let people impacted by… Click below to read the full story from Forbes
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