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He was there on the 20th, not the 12th. 🤷♂️
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-ground-zero-day-after-911/
It is a legitimate statement but hardly news worthy. He visited shortly after the towers collapsed. The article also quotes other incidents where his statements were not accurate but for the most part true. I wouldn't call it intentional misleading for political clout although it is a bit weird to make statements that are easily disapproved.
Yeah its not a great look but at the same time, human memory is a very fickle thing. There is a reason I'm all for dashcams and the such since eye witnesses are worthless and can easily be primed to see what others want them to see. Maybe he is doing it for clout but lets be honest here I doubt most people would remember exact dates/times of something that happened 22 years ago. Hell I legit can't remember anything I did 15 years ago, its all sort of a blur.
I was talking more about some of the other things he has said in past as stated in the full article. The ground zero statement in the title alone is a non story. I agree It was 22 years ago and he was there shortly after. Certainly nothing worth making any point of and a few days after is more or less immediately after the incident.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In a speech to service members and first responders on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, President Joe Biden falsely claimed that he was at Ground Zero the day after the Twin Towers fell in Manhattan.
Biden, returning from a whirlwind trip to Asia, said in his Monday remarks at a military base in Alaska: “I join you on this solemn day to renew our sacred vow: never forget.
Asked Monday night about the claim, the White House provided a photo and article showing that Biden, then a senator for Delaware, toured Ground Zero on September 20, 2001.
A White House official then emailed this comment on condition of anonymity: “The President first visited the World Trade Center nine days after the September 11 terrorist attacks as part of a bipartisan delegation from the Senate.”
As The New York Post noted on Monday, Biden wrote in a 2007 memoir that he “headed back to the Capitol” on September 12, 2001.
He did it three times in a single speech last month – falsely claiming to have witnessed a bridge collapse in Pittsburgh in 2022 (he actually visited the site more than six hours after the collapse), falsely claiming his grandfather had died just days prior to his own birth at the same hospital (his paternal grandfather died more than a year prior in another state), and again repeating a long-debunked false story about a supposed conversation with an Amtrak conductor who was deceased at the time the story would have had to take place.
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When was that? Oooopps. Never forget didn't work so well.