Getty Images President Donald Trump arrives to speak at the site of a new memorial in Shanksville, Pa., where Flight 93 crashed during the Sept. 11 attacks.
President Donald Trump marked the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on Tuesday, as he tweeted critical comments about the Russia probe and said he’d spare “no expense” to protect Americans from Hurricane Florence.
‘WHATEVER IT TAKES’
Speaking in Shanksville, Pa., where United Flight 93 crashed 17 years ago, Trump remembered the victims of the attacks and said, “we honor their sacrifice by pledging to never flinch in the face of evil and to do whatever it takes to keep America safe.” Trump recounted the attempts of the crew and passengers to retake control of the plane and called the field where it crashed “a monument to American defiance.”
Trump also tweeted that Rudy Giuliani, who was New York’s mayor at the time of the Sept. 11 attacks, “did a GREAT job” leading the city through that period. Giuliani is now Trump’s personal lawyer representing him in the Russia investigation.
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‘NO EXPENSE’
With residents of the Carolinas and Virginia bracing for Hurricane Florence, Trump met with Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Brock Long and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
Trump called Americans’ safety his “highest priority” and said “we are sparing no expense. We are totally prepared.” He also said that he believes his administration did an “incredibly successful” job in responding to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico last year. Nearly 3,000 people died as a result of the disaster, according to the U.S. territory’s government.
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TRUMP CITES FOX ON RUSSIA
Trump also tweeted a quote saying there was “nothing to show collusion between President Trump & Russia,” appending the Twitter handles of Fox Business anchor Lou Dobbs and Fox News contributor Sara Carter. Carter posted an article Monday alleging officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department leaked unverified information to the media about alleged collusion with Russia to damage Trump. Carter appeared on Dobbs’ show Monday.
In another tweet Trump called a separate Fox report on ex-FBI agent Peter Strzok and former FBI lawyer Lisa Page being part of a leak strategy “so terrible.” Strzok’s lawyer says Trump is “peddling unfounded conspiracy theories.”
Read: Trump compares Russia probe to McCarthyism, says McGahn is no ‘RAT.’
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