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The President Stole the Dead to Enlarge Himself
A Memorial Turned Into a Prop
At a ceremony marking 25 years since September 11, Donald Trump placed himself inside the catastrophe. He claimed that he sent a large construction crew to ground zero, stood beneath a dangerously unstable building, and was physically carried to safety by firefighters. The accounts cited in the reporting found no basis for those claims.
This was not incidental embellishment. The president used a national memorial—and the authority of his office—to appropriate the courage of people who actually…
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