A tweet celebrating Saudi Arabia's participation in a Biden infrastruce project was widely criticized for coinciding with the 9/11 attacks.
This year, Biden became the first president to bow out of participating in any 9/11 memorial events. The president did deliver remarks honoring the lives lost in the 2001 attacks from Anchorage, Alaska, later in the afternoon and made posts to social media accounts remembering the 2,977 deaths.
Some users on the social media platform called the spokeswoman a"disgrace," while others called the timing"tasteless,""unbelievably tone deaf" and"politically inept." Survivors and the families of 9/11 victims are still fighting a long-running federal lawsuit in New York to hold the Saudi government responsible for the attacks. For 15 years, the lawsuit had been blocked because of the"sovereign immunity" protection for foreign governments in court.On Monday afternoon, it was announced that the U.S.
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