Values that we profess, that our leaders said the reasons we were attacked. the night of 9/11 president bush said we stand for freedom and openness and opportunity and democracy and rule of law yet in the prosecution of the war on terror despite the heroics of troops and civilians like on flight 93 we indulge in the lowest impulses, an unnecessary war in iraq, prolonged the war in afghanistan through the deception about how it was actually going and engaged in brutal interrogation of terrorism suspects as we saw in the senator chur report. the irony is after this the democracy at home is weakened and the very building that al qaeda allegely attempting to and
Detaining tourists on a base where they hold terrorism suspects. the book also describes another incident when president trump was speaking with alex azar, trump reported to have yelled this, quote, i m going to lose the election because of testing. what idiot had the federal government do testing? azar then said, you mean jared? kushner vowed to take charge of a national testing strategy just days earlier. a lot to digest but the first story, the instinct of president trump in february of 2020, according to the books was to send american citizens who wanted to the come home but were sick with coronavirus to the same place that a reed shake mohammed now sits. now we know why he wanted to
Was the guy currently married to his favorite daughter, ivanka. as awful as that it is, it gets worse. the absolute worst, in fact, is the bonkers story told by the authors about what trump reportedly wanted to do with americans who were infected with the coronavirus. looking to come home overseas, back in february of 2020. right as covid began to surge. it turns out he wanted to lock them up. according to the book, during a situation room meeting, trump turned to his team and said, do we have an island we own? what about guantanamo. we import goods. we re not going to import a virus. you hear that, america? the president of the united states was looking to send american citizens to the same place they detained terrorism suspects forever, because he didn t want them increasing the number of cases in the united states. according to the book, trump brought it up a second time but stunned aides scuttled the idea. it s another example of just how awful the previous president s response to
They didn t have to do all of this on a 20-year delay. in normal civilian courts in the u.s., hundreds of terrorism suspects have been tried and convicted without incident. they go into the prison system and they disappear into the federal prison system and they stop being famous. the obama administration tried to take that course with these five 9/11 defendants. they tried to actually put these guys on trial for terrorism when obama first took office in 2009, but you may remember congress freaked out and decided that no way would the obama administration be allowed to do that. that would be terrible. and so instead we are heading into the 19th year since 9/11 with none of those five 9/11 defendants being tried let alone convicted, including the guy who is accused of setting up the whole thing. but there is that one other guy though in colorado who is now like the counter-factual example of how it might have been. how it might have gone.
Date for them is still only a maybe. even if that happens, best case scenario, that s two decades without a trial, and two decades for the families of 9/11 victims who will have waited 20 years to see if justice might be served for those suspects, even after the u.s. says they got the guy who they think orchestrated the whole thing. i mean, it didn t have to go this way, right? they didn t have to do all of this on a 20-year delay. in normal civilian courts in the u.s., hundreds of terrorism suspects have been tried and convicted without incident. they go into the prison system and they disappear into the federal prison system and they stop being famous. the obama administration tried to take that course with these five 9/11 defendants. they tried to actually put these guys on trial for terrorism when obama first took office in 2009, but you may remember congress freaked out and decided that no way would the obama administration be allowed to do