.MaddowBlog: Fmr. President Trump has spent much of the last two decades saying deeply unfortunate things about the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Yesterday, he made matters worse.
Chip Somodevilla / Getty ImagesAs the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaches, Donald Trump wants the public to know one thing: his administration killed"bigger" terrorists than the one responsible for 9/11.
"And we took out the founder of ISIS, al-Baghdadi, and then of course [Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani]. Now just so you understand, Soleimani is bigger by many, many times than Osama bin Laden. The founder of ISIS is bigger by many, many times, al-Baghdadi, than Osama bin Laden. Osama bin Laden had one hit, and it was a bad one, in New York City, the World Trade Center. But these other two guys were monsters.... The press doesn't talk about it.
Right off the bat, the context for such rhetoric is striking. Not only will the United States recognize the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in two weeks, but we're also currently dealing with the painful end of the decades-long war in Afghanistan, which was launched in response to Osama bin Laden's and al Qaeda's terrorism, and which is drawing to a tragic close in part because of Trump's dubious deal with the Taliban.
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