HuffPost White House reporter S.V. Dáte reiterated his belief on Monday that the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 were not nearly as bad as the riot on January 6, 2021 because the latter involved former President Donald Trump.
Dáte accused Trump of being a lesser American who nearly ended "our democracy," something Osama Bin Laden "could not come close to..."
Twenty-two years ago this morning, a foreign terrorist murdered nearly 3,000 Americans. But he could not come close to ending or even hurting our democracy.
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) September 11, 2023
That attack arrived 19 years, three months and 26 days later, at the hands of an ersatz American.
"Osama bin [Laden], after all, had never taken an oath to protect and defend the Constitution and the United States. Our 45th president had. Ironically, the locus of his assault was the same building that was saved by the bravery of the passengers on United 93," he continued.
In 2021, Dáte said he believed January 6 was "1000 percent worse." Both times, he received overwhelming negative reactions, as the death toll and impact of 9/11 have far outweighed the aftermath of January 6, both nationally and internationally.
1000 percent worse. https://t.co/0jS4r1S2uk
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) May 25, 2021
MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan went in a slightly different direction and chose to vilify the United States for its role in the 1973 military coup in Chile.
Did you know that today is the 50th anniversary of another 9/11? Chile's 9/11? That we, America, in the form of Nixon and especially Kissinger, helped cause?
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) September 11, 2023
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