While touting “New York values” during a campaign speech in Buffalo, New York, on Monday, Donald Trump mentioned that he helped to clear rubble at Ground Zero following the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
“Everyone who helped clear the rubble — and I was there, and I watched, and I helped a little bit — but I want to tell you: Those people were amazing,” Trump said. “Clearing the rubble. Trying to find additional lives. You didn’t know what was going to come down on all of us — and they handled it. Every small act of kindness, every great act of courage, those are New York values.”
It’s not clear how Trump helped at Ground Zero, but as the Washington Post noted, he did appear at Ground Zero in the the days following the attack. The Post surfaced a report in New York Newsday on Trump’s presence at the site. Trump also gave an interview with a German television outfit at Ground Zero, where he said that had 100 people at the site helping and another 125 on the way.
Watch a clip of Trump’s Monday speech via the Washington Post:
