The president will mark two decades since that grim day and the full drawdown of troops in Afghanistan
President Joe Biden is expected to attend the 9/11 memorial in New York City to mark the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks, four sources with knowledge of his plans told POLITICO.
The White House recently indicated to officials in New York that Biden plans to travel for the commemoration, two of the sources said. Officials are also looking at possible stops at other locations attacked that day: the Pentagon and the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa. But one administration official said it may be logistically difficult to attend all three spots in one day.
For the 10th anniversary of the attacks in 2011, then-President Barack Obama visited New York. When Biden was vice president in the Obama administration, he traveled to the memorial sites during different years. In 2012, heBiden’s likely visit to lower Manhattan will be “particularly significant with our withdrawal from Afghanistan,” said a White House official, referencing the full U.S. military pullback from that lengthy war.
In 2016, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, a former U.S. senator from New York, attended the 9/11 New York City ceremony for the 15th anniversary but her visit wasin which aides were forced to help her get into a waiting van. Video of the event played into Donald Trump’s false narrative that Clinton was not healthy enough to be president.
While Trump also attended in 2016, he never visited the 9/11 memorial site in New York City as president as part of an anniversary commemoration, though he did go to the Pentagon and Shanksville.
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