Driving the news: “Nobody has gotten to the bottom of 9/11 unfortunately, and they should have,” Trump said, calling the people who carried out the terrorist attack “maniacs that did that horrible thing to our city, to our country, to the world.”
Flashback: Last year, the FBI released a declassified document from 2016 related to its investigation, which showed Saudi hijackers allegedly received heavy support from Saudi government officials, Axios’ Rebecca Falconer writes.
Fifteen of the 19 attackers on 9/11 were Saudi nationals. The 9/11 Families United group said in a statement at the time the report implicated “numerous Saudi government officials, in a coordinated effort to mobilize an essential support network for the first arriving 9/11 hijackers, Nawaf al Hazmi and Khalid al Mihdhar.”
The redacted report did not include any evidence of a direct connection with the ruling royal family, and the Saudi government has denied any wrongdoing.
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