President Joe Biden, speaking to troops in Alaska on Sept. 11, claimed that he was at Ground Zero in New York City on Sept. 12, 2001, the day after terrorists took down the twin towers of the World Trade Center.
While at the podium at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, he falsely claimed that he toured the ruins.
“Ground Zero in New York — I remember standing there the next day and looking at the building. And I felt like I was looking through the gates of hell,” Biden told the soldiers and airmen gathered to hear him speak.
However, fact checkers around the internet have found him to have told yet another lie. In Biden’s memoir “Promises to Keep,” he wrote in 2008 that he was in Washington on Sept. 11 and also on Sept. 12.
“I headed back to the Capitol the next morning” — Sept. 12, 2001,” his memoir said, making no reference to any quick trip to New York City at a time when all planes would have been grounded and trains not running, as the country was in a state of emergency.
C-SPAN footage from Sept. 12, 2001 shows Biden speaking on the floor in the U.S. Senate, according to those who reviewed them.
Verdict: Biden lied to the troops.
