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July 30, 2019

Trump Signs 9/11 Compensation Bill After Extensive Lobbying by First Responders
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President Trump signed a bill Monday to permanently fund the September
11th Victim Compensation Fund, which provides healthcare for first
responders to the 9/11 terror attack. First responders have been
lobbying for its passage for months. This is Trump speaking at the
signing.

President Donald Trump: "And I was down there also, but I'm not
considering myself a first responder. But I was down there. I spent a
lot of time down there with you."

According to a retired deputy chief with the New York Fire Department,
he never saw Trump at ground zero. "He was a private citizen at the
time. I don't know what kind of role he could have possibly played,"
Richard Alles told The New York Times. After the 9/11 attack, Trump
boasted that his building-40 Wall Street-had become the tallest building
in downtown Manhattan after the collapse of the World Trade Center. The
claim was untrue.


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