NEW YORK (AP) – Every American of a certain age has a 9/11 story – vivid memories of where they were, what they saw, how they felt on that awful day.
Donald Trump is one of them.
And for New Yorkers like him, 9/11 melds first-hand experience with what they felt in their guts, what they saw on television and what was playing out in the lives of friends and loved ones in a city under siege.
Trump often invokes his 9/11 memories to highlight the bravery shown on that day and how his home town pulled together in a time of crisis. The billionaire businessman, whose holdings on 9/11 included some 20 buildings in Manhattan, also is prone to embellishment – what he referred to in one of his books as “truthful hyperbole.”
In the case of 9/11, Trump’s line between memory and hyperbole appears to be blurry. A look at some of his recent comments about the attacks: