In a campaign speech in Glendale, Arizona on Wednesday, Trump’s running mate, Senator J.D. Vance, slammed the plea deals made by the three terrorists behind the attack. September 11 terrorist attacks He is awaiting trial in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
“Just today I heard that the Biden-Harris Department of Justice made a deal with al-Qaida terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to avoid the death penalty. It was reported today,” Vance said. “As someone who joined the Marines after 9/11, this is absurd, but it doesn’t surprise me.”
The Department of Defense (DoD) announced on Wednesday that Military Commission Convening Authority Susan Eskarie had entered into pretrial agreements with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid Mohammed Saleh Mubarak bin Attash and Mustafa Ahmed Adam Al Hawsawi.
The Ohio Republican went on to slam the Biden-Harris administration, saying it has been “a disaster for our country around the world.”
“Look at what’s happening now with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, who have weaponized the Department of Justice to go after their political opponents, but they’re making a sweet deal with the 9/11 terrorists,” Vance said. “We need a president who will kill terrorists, not negotiate with them.”
Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio spoke at a campaign event in Glendale, Arizona on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Jay C. Hong)
9/11 mastermind and two others reach plea deal while awaiting trial, leaving victims’ families “deeply disappointed”
House Speaker Mike Johnson also condemned the prosecutors’ decision, saying the Biden-Harris administration had done the “unthinkable.”
“23 years ago, America watched in horror as thousands of innocent Americans died. In the weeks that followed, America mourned as emergency workers sifted through ashes at Ground Zero, the Pentagon and the Shanksville crash site. For more than two decades, the families of those killed by these terrorists have waited for justice. This plea deal is an affront to them. They deserve better from a Biden-Harris Administration,” Johnson said in X’s post.
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An American flag bearing the name of Father Michael F. Judge, a New York Fire Department chaplain who died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, at the National September 11 Memorial in New York. (AP Photo/Mike Seeger/Pool/File)
Terms of the plea deal were not disclosed, but the terrorism suspect will avoid the death penalty, three family members of 9/11 victims were told by the Office of Military Commissions (OMC). New York Post report.
The defendants are accused of providing training, funding and other assistance to 19 terrorists who hijacked passenger planes on September 11, 2001, and crashed them into the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
This attack resulted in: Worst terrorist attack It was the first incident in American history to take place on American soil. The victims’ families were outraged when they heard the news of the deal.
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In September, President Biden Forgive 9/11 The planners and co-conspirators avoided the possibility of the death penalty.
Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio shook hands with a young supporter during a campaign stop in Glendale, Arizona, on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Jay C. Hong)
They are scheduled to be sentenced at Guantanamo Bay on August 5.
Vance cited other examples of weaknesses in the Biden-Harris administration: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro Re-election, widely believed to have been a fraudulent victory in Sunday’s election, securing him another six-year term.
“There are lots of examples I could talk about right now, but we recently had news coming out of Venezuela that they made a deal with the dictator of Venezuela and in return they offered to give the dictator free and fair elections,” Vance said. “And what’s astonishing is that the Kamala Harris administration knows nothing about free and fair elections.”
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“So they’re pampering dictators all over the world. We need to bring back American power, and that means bringing back Donald J. Trump as president of the United States.”
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Fox News Digital’s Louis Casiano contributed to this report.
