Donald Trump was at Ground Zero on 9/11 – False

The earliest video or photo of Trump near Ground Zero is from Sept. 13, 2001. He gave an interview to a German TV station and spoke with the press on other occasions that day.

President Trump Claims He Was At Ground Zero On 9/11, But Others Doubt That He continues to say he rushed to the wreckage of the twin towers after the Sept. 11 attacks to help.

During an event honoring victims who died on Sept. 11, 2001, President Trump tried to position himself close to the recovery efforts shortly after the attack. But first responders who were at ground zero and a biographer dispute his claims.

According to Richard Alles, a retired deputy chief with the New York Fire Department, Mr. Trump was not a presence at ground zero.

11, 2001, attacks. A Trump biographer and former police officials have said that the president was not in a wave of people who traveled to Ground Zero, and that he did not take a crew.

And some parts of his Tuesday account ... — are misleading at best. He was miles away from the World Trade Center on 9/11 and was not whisked out of any building near Ground Zero that day....

Trump was interviewed near Ground Zero shortly after 9/11, but there’s no evidence he brought hundreds of workers and aided recovery long term.

And yet Wall Street is littered with two feet of stone and brick and mortar and steel." Two days later, Trump appeared near Ground Zero, where he surveyed the destruction and spoke to reporters and television crews. A Washington Post report from September 13, 2001, described him arriving at the site and observing the ongoing recovery effort.

Pakman explained that evidence ... area around ground zero in the days after the attack,” but there was no proof of him assigning workers to the rescue efforts....