“Donald Trump spent 9/11 marching into a war zone of fire and ashes with an army of his own men to save Americans.”
What PolitiFact found
News accounts from 9/11 put Donald Trump near ground zero on multiple occasions, but there's no record he was directly involved with recovery efforts. Trump has not provided evidence to support these claims.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Benny Johnson (Conservative activist) made this claim around 11 September 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 19 September 2023, 8 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Benny Johnson has 5 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 3 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=196406479994620
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