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Tomorrow, a nation will stop to remember that morning 25 years ago when 2,977 Americans were murdered in a terrorist attack that altered our history forever. This week it has been impossible to escape one New Yorker’s supposed involvement on that day: Donald Trump. He smeared himself in the dust of the Twin Towers with a lie so stunning that even Ted Cruz could not defend it, making himself—not those who died, not those who mourn them, not those who survived—the center of the tragedy. This morning The Daily Beast publishes a searing account of that day, and the following 25 years in America, by our Michael Daly, who was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his reporting in 2001. It is a powerful antidote to Trump’s lies because it is simply, profoundly, movingly, the truth. Trump himself is in Dallas, Texas, for his so-called “midterm convention” where his big speech was glitch-packed and delivered to empty seats. But he did humiliate one of his own, and hold out a crackpot bribe. We’ve got all the details. Behind the scenes, his war has taken a new, worrying twist. We’ll explain what’s going on, and how Pete Hegseth is facing a reckoning. This morning, Jimmy Kimmel is also blowing the whistle on Trump censorship in a new low in the battle for free speech.
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That morning, Michael Daly saw it all. The horror of people falling from the burning towers. The deaths foretold in the instant that they chose to jump, and the knowledge from a firefighter standing beside him of why people would make that awful choice. And then, a mystical moment when Monarch butterflies flew through the place of death and dust. This morning his account of that morning, that day, and the 25 years that followed is a must-read—because it tells the truth. A truth which combines tragedy and horror with hope, and moral clarity with sheer heart.
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That truth has been a scarce commodity this week, thanks to another man who claimed he was at Ground Zero, but wasn’t, Donald Trump. Daly’s account is impossible to read without being moved to tears, not of despair, but mourning—and hope.
Twenty-five years on, America is once again in a Middle Eastern war. This time on even shakier ground. This morning, the military is counting the extraordinary cost of a fresh attack by Iran on a U.S. base in Jordan, which did serious damage to warplanes stationed hundreds of miles from Iran itself. One plane lost an entire wing, and nine more were damaged. And even more worryingly, the U.S. used up dozens of the precious Patriot interceptors, which are vital to stopping Iran’s ballistic missile threat. And it was all apparently timed to come just ahead of Trump delivering his big speech to his fans at his fake Dallas, Texas, “convention.”
The stunning blow in Jordan comes as it is revealed that JD Vance and Marco Rubio have directly told Trump some sort of truth about his “just a few weeks” of war in Iran: That it is a real forever war. The sober nature of what they are saying, versus what Trump proclaims in public, is deeply worrying. Will Neal has the details.
The disastrous war, the shameful state of the USS Abraham Lincoln, the suspicious firings of Black and female generals, the unhinged tirades, and the vile tweets aimed at Canadians have broken all conventions. But Pete Hegseth’s time as Defense Secretary is finally facing a reckoning if Democrats can take at least the House, and possibly the Senate, in the looming elections. They are getting ready to make the one-time drink-sodden Fox News weekend co-anchor the target of a series of investigations.
Trump’s Delivers Glitch-Filled Speech to Empty Seats
Trump summoned the faithful to Dallas, Texas, starting on Wednesday for the first-ever “midterm convention.” The fake convention, however, got off to a difficult start in the American Airlines Center. The supposed big moment of the speech was to offer every American citizen $5,000 if Republicans hold the House and the Senate (a brazen bribe we cover below). But all that was overshadowed by...
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