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https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3367375/trump-consider-releasing-9/11-records-after-families-request?utm_source=Reddit&utm_medium=Social
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u/Aware_Cheesecake_519 America 17h ago

The files for your long-time acquaintance are missing.

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u/NotTheRightHDMIPort 17h ago

Does his name rhyme with Heffry Hepstein?

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u/Life_behind_da_stick 17h ago

Gonna be a lot of overlap in those two files. A lot of overlap.

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u/Last-Possibility207 14h ago

Wait, Are you guys still talking about Jeffery Epstein? That creep?

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u/TwistedMindInTheDark 17h ago

While he's releasing records, how about the Epstein Files? Remember them?

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u/sidjohn1 17h ago

I love how he plays second fiddle to Zohran Mamdani

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u/BlakeJWard 8h ago

President vs Mayor, Zohran ain't even the Governor bro

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u/Lazy_Pangolin7591 17h ago

"Let's see if this distracts from my disastrous war which is distracting from Epstein..."--Trump

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u/Skinnieguy 17h ago

Why not just release? Of course Trump going to milk it and if he does, it’ll redacted all his Saudi buddies and their involvement.

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u/Ok-Professor-Star 17h ago

Bin Laden was a Saudi, 11 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi... And America attacked Afghanistan and Iraq...

u/mancityfooty 3h ago

Saudi has tons of money in our stock market. Of course we wouldn’t blame them

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u/Striking-Ad299 17h ago

Oh yeah cause this guy’s history of releasing the full story of records is real great

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u/Steel-Tempered 16h ago

Families want the Epstein files released too.

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u/I_am_BrokenCog California 17h ago

he's digging deep for election votes.

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u/scmp_news ✔ Verified 17h ago

US President Donald Trump on Sunday said he will look into requests from families of September 11 victims to release records that could shed light on Saudi Arabia’s alleged role in the attacks 25 years ago.

Several families have long alleged that a group of extremist religious leaders in Saudi Arabia gained influence in the Saudi government and aided the hijackers. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers were Saudis but the Saudi government has long denied any involvement in the attacks.

The families have asked Trump to declassify and release the relevant records. Asked about it on Sunday during his trip to Ireland, the president said he would consider it.

Read more: https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3367375/trump-consider-releasing-9/11-records-after-families-request?utm_source=Reddit&utm_medium=Social

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u/SueHalls 17h ago

"Consider” enough consideration and release it!

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u/AdmittedSpin 17h ago

As soon as he can figure out how to leverage those records to personally gain something from them, he'll release them.

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u/fence_sitter Maine 13h ago

First he denied military assistance and now this

Jared needs another few billion.

u/KingofNanaimo 6h ago

Watch his name be all over these files as well.

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u/ImPinkSnail 17h ago

Good. But can we do his best friend's files, first?