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Donald Trump: I ‘helped a little bit’ with clearing rubble at Ground Zero
Washington Post ^ | 4/19/16 | Philip Bump

Posted on 04/19/2016 12:03:34 PM PDT by markomalley

Donald Trump has gotten a lot of attention over the past 12 hours for referring to the Sept. 11 terror attacks as "7/11" during a speech in Buffalo. It's an awkward, amusing slip-up -- but it's just a slip-up.

More interesting, perhaps, is something he said shortly afterward.

Trump was talking about "New York values" -- a means of dismissing Ted Cruz in Trump's home state. As he did during the debate where Cruz first made the point, Trump was using the attacks as a way of espousing what it is that New Yorkers stand for. Unusually for him, he was reading from a sheet of paper.

Then he offered this aside.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2016election; election2016; newyork; presidentdonaldtrump; trump; trump911; waronterror
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To: Sacajaweau

Everybody but Muslims had sadness in their eyes that day. good grief


41 posted on 04/19/2016 1:37:09 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: markomalley

Can you be more of a tool?


42 posted on 04/19/2016 1:45:23 PM PDT by Reagan Disciple (Peace through Strength)
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