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Joe Biden briefly sporting the Trump 2024 hat.

Joe Biden dons Trump hat in show of 9/11 ‘bipartisan unity’

US president Joe Biden briefly wore the Trump hat during a visit to the site where Flight 93 crashed on 9/11.

US PRESIDENT JOE Biden briefly donned one of Donald Trump’s red hats today during a visit to Pennsylvania to mark the anniversary of 9/11.

A White House spokesperson has described the incident as a show of “bipartisan unity”.

Biden was in Pennsylvania with his vice president and the democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris for a visit to the site where Flight 93 crashed.

United Airlines Flight 93 was one of four planes hijacked on the morning of 9/11.

The plane crashed after passengers and crew fought back against the hijackers.

It’s believed the hijackers planned to crash the plane into the US Capitol building in Washington DC.

While in Pennsylvania, Biden briefly sported a Trump hat.

“Thanks for the support, Joe!” posted Trump’s official campaign account on X.

The Trump ‘War Room’ account added that “Kamala did so bad in last night’s debate, Joe Biden just put on a Trump hat”.

However, White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said the move was a “gesture” of “bipartisan unity”.

Bates said that while at the Shanksville Fire Station, Biden spoke about “the country’s bipartisan unity after 9/11 and said we needed to get that back”.

“As a gesture, he gave a hat to a Trump supporter who then said that in the same spirit, POTUS [Biden] should put on his Trump cap,” said Bates, who added that Biden “briefly wore it”.

Biden, 81, who was replaced by Harris on the Democratic ticket after withdrawing from the race in July, has repeatedly characterised Trump as an existential threat to US democracy.

Several commenters also noted that the episode came the day after the US presidential debate, in which Trump claimed that Biden “hates” Harris.

On the debate stage last night, which was the first time Harris and Trump had met, Harris initiated a handshake between the two.

They shook hands again today when they stood near one another at New York’s 9/11 memorial.

Wearing commemorative blue ribbons, they watched with other assembled dignitaries, including Biden, as the names of the almost 3,000 victims of the attacks on the Twin Towers were read out.

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    Sep 12th 2024, 12:01 AM

    @Pat Hazzard – A UN Sanctions Monitoring Team assessed in June 2023 that al-Qaeda is regrouping in Afghanistan.. Comeback tour to be announced..

    Just like Hamas now, the US is largely responsible for supporting and arming these groups(ISIS, AlQueida, Taliban, Hamas, etc). One decade they’ll use them to disrupt/overthrow some regime somewhere and the next decade, they’re the terrorists/regime, and another group will be armed and supported to take them down.. and on and on it goes… 

    All in the name of democracy of course.. 

    You really are the most clueless of people ‘Pat’.

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    Sep 12th 2024, 2:56 AM

    @Brian: plan is to keep the ME destabilised to prevent another ’67.

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    Sep 11th 2024, 11:50 PM

    Poor old man didn’t know what he was doing ! Just like everything else .

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    Sep 12th 2024, 12:29 AM

    @Peter O’Brien: who else???

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    Sep 11th 2024, 10:55 PM

    Pretty stoopid stunt.

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    Sep 11th 2024, 11:08 PM

    @Mr “JonnieBoy” Johnson: why???

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    Sep 11th 2024, 11:06 PM

    US united to eliminate Al-Qaeda terrorists, they need to do same now to eliminate Hamas.

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    Sep 11th 2024, 11:19 PM

    @Pat Hazzard: I doubt that will happen

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    Sep 11th 2024, 11:23 PM

    @Pat Hazzard: Ever think about getting a job instead of scrounging off the state? You clearly have too much time on your hands.

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    Sep 11th 2024, 11:25 PM

    @Pat Hazzard: maybe if they and Israel actually targetted hamas instead of just blowing the sh i te out of anything and everything Palestinian.

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    Sep 11th 2024, 11:51 PM

    @Pat Hazzard: And kill innocent women and children while doing it?

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    Sep 11th 2024, 11:56 PM

    @Pat Hazzard: I would agree if their bombs hadn’t killed 20,000 innocent children in 11 months.

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    Sep 12th 2024, 12:20 AM

    @Ollie McGlinchey: Ollie you’re a mechanic in Blanch who doesn’t pay his taxes.

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    Sep 12th 2024, 12:54 AM

    @Pat Hazzard: Israels head of the army has said Hamas is a beaten military force.
    Obviously you can’t get rid of fanatical Islamic terrorists. There will always be some. But this sounds like good news towards ending the war and carnage.

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    Sep 12th 2024, 2:56 AM

    @Brian Dunne: It was Israel that put Hamas in power – And they have no interest in getting rid of them. They’d have no body to blame for dropping bombs on children if they did.

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    Sep 12th 2024, 6:21 AM

    @Pat Hazzard: Al Qaeda only existed because of US atrocity in the region, bombing and assassinating its way throughout the region.

    Do you really think that victims of this would not strike back.

    911 was caused by the US itself.

    Just as the Palestinian will do what they can to defend against isreali atrocity/

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    Sep 12th 2024, 8:22 AM

    @Anthony Curran: People like you are just clueless. Gaza is a big sprawl, Hamas is hiding within civilian, if the boys you support were real fighter this wouldn’t happen.

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    Sep 12th 2024, 8:24 AM

    @Anthony Curran: Also talking about 20k children death while it’s Hamas number which are clearly made up is mind boggling. You are the first one saying Chinese or Russian numbers are fake (which they are) but keep drinking Hamas propaganda like its milk. Pathetic braindead.

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    Sep 12th 2024, 3:20 PM

    @Pat Hazzard: Hamas – Freedom Fighters- 750,000 Palestinians displaced in 1948 to accommodate the Jews. Since armed settlers have taken more and more land and murder with impunity.
    It is a complete genocide what Isreal and US are doing to an UNARMED population in their OWN LAND. I suppose the 500 Billion oil and gas off the coast of Gaza has nothing to.do with it.!! It has always been Isreal’s intention to clear Palestine right from the start !! Worst atrocity since the Nazis and in full view of the world ! At least the Nazis had some shame !

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    Sep 11th 2024, 11:02 PM

    Total buffoonery.

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    Sep 11th 2024, 11:08 PM

    @Robert Clifford: why???

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    Sep 12th 2024, 6:26 AM

    I see the poor auld MAGALoons posting here are still in shock.

    The poor little fragile snowflakes.

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    Sep 12th 2024, 8:09 AM

    @ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: Not at all, Trump will still win i reckon, it’s his policies that will get him over the line. Too many folks in rural parts of the states are really struggling financially & most will vote for Trump. Even after the debate anyway all polls are really close.With the bookies 9-10 v Evens.

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    Sep 12th 2024, 8:52 AM

    @Robert Bell: He loves thr poorly educated, they love him and ultimately, they’ll get shafted for it.

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    Sep 12th 2024, 9:44 AM

    @Robert Bell: inflation and cost of living are not policies. Tiny’s platform is Project 2025. Yes, poorer voters in swing states struggling with the cost of living may put the proven rap ist in the White House. But it would be in spite the dribbling moron and his policies.

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    Sep 12th 2024, 9:47 AM

    @Bobby Digital: Project 2025 will make retirement a pipe dream for those voters in the swing states. Working in your late 70s is a regular thing today in the US but when the billionaires get the entitlement cuts they want, it will be practically mandatory for the lower economic brackets.

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    Sep 12th 2024, 10:42 AM

    Trump, “ you’ve been in charge for 3 and a half years and everything sucks and matter of fact you’ve adopted some of my policies so much so I’m going to give you a MAGA hat” Tuesday night at the debate. Enter Joe Biden the next day, wearing said hat!

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    Sep 12th 2024, 10:56 AM

    @Mick O’K: weird observations aside, what say you about the proven rap ist and his clown show performance in the debate? Let me guess, it was the moderators.

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    Sep 12th 2024, 11:05 AM

    @Bobby Digital: it wasn’t great Bobby. Let me ask you if you thought the debate was moderated without bias. If one candidate can be fact checked why not both? Harris did perform better than expected but does the voter the undecided voter know anything they didn’t already know about her? Which question asked of her did you think she best answered? Because the undecided voter will tell you that they were better off (in their pocket) under Trump, maybe that’s why she completely dodged the question? Would you agree?

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    Sep 12th 2024, 11:27 AM

    @Mick O’K: yeah because in the aftermath of Joe Biden’s performance your cult were parsing the proven rap ist’s policy answers! I can’t answer your nonsensical whataboutery until I stop laughing about the cats and dogs. And the way he looked like, in the words of your cult’s more despicable members, a low-T PAB. She basically called him Putin’s b and he just took it. Lololol.

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    Sep 12th 2024, 11:29 AM

    @Mick O’K: What about his health policy Mick.. ? or lack thereof. ‘We’re working on it.. if we come up with something we might do it.. I have concepts ‘ Now, sitting down to watch any of our upcoming leaders debates and if one of MM,SH or ML came out with that.. would you be in any way inclined to vote for them, or would you, as most rational minded people, deride them and give them two fingers for standing in front of the country and having the temerity to expect people to vote for you whilst not having even an inkling of what’s going on and a credible plan to boot???

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    Sep 12th 2024, 11:34 AM

    @Bobby Digital: brilliant impression of Harris there Bobby

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    Sep 12th 2024, 11:37 AM

    @Mick O’K: well she also got great delight out of seeing the proven rap ist humiliated

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    Sep 12th 2024, 11:37 AM

    @Brian: I’ve already said Trump didn’t do well Brian. Everyone knows what they’ll get from Trump, they’ve had 4 years of him. Harris’s supporters will vote for her that obviously baked in. My question is about the undecided voter Brian. What knowledge did they gain from Harris about what she’ll do for them? She didn’t sell herself she didn’t introduce herself to the undecided

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    Sep 12th 2024, 11:40 AM

    @Bobby Digital: another non answer Bobby. I know I’ve said it before, but we’re done. I won’t mute you pal but I won’t engage with you until when you ask a question I reply with an answer. You act like a child an avoid any questions put you. That’s not how conversation works

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    Sep 12th 2024, 11:51 AM

    @Mick O’K: oh sweet lord, you’re the one pretending only 2 weeks ago to not be a follower of the proven rap ist and now you’re a full on cult member. You constantly talk absolute nonsense about Harris’s policies.l, pretending she hasn’t relayed to the American people what she stands for. Her immigration policy is the bipartisan plan that the rap ist killed. Her economic policies are, just the specific ones she mentioned the other night, the small business grants and the first time home buyers grant and, most importantly, blocking Trump’s project 2025 which will mean economic destruction for much of America. Her social policies include enshrining the rights of women to choose what happens to their bodies and, again, blocking the rap ist’s project 2025.

    Now, list the policies of Tiny that you approve of. Stephen Miller’s fascist deportation policy that’s been ridiculed by everyone who has heard it? The economically illiterate tariffs? The handover of Ukraine? Or is it aspects of project 2025?

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    Sep 12th 2024, 12:02 PM

    @Mick O’K: He didn’t do well..? He stood in front of the country and told them he didn’t have a health policy! Can you address that fact, please? Should someone running for president, or the highest office in any country be taken in any way seriously in light of this?

    This election will come down to the 7-10 percent of undecided voters in the 6/7 swing states.. all the other votes are locked in.. regardless of what either does or says from now til election day.

    I would surmise that she would have scored very favourably with these voters.. She certainly isn’t the greatest orator or debater, but she didn’t need to be because her opponent was rambling like a loon. And yes everyone does know what they’re gonna get from him as evidenced by his ‘performance’ during the debate. Pretty sure undecided voters are turned off by that performance.

    And this narrative that she didn’t introduce herself is nonsensical and as usual false.. she did.. she spoke multiple times about her upbringing and her background in prefacing answers.. Saying otherwise is pure spin,at best.

    At the end of the day, it won’t matter because just like in 2020, if he loses, he will continue to claim the elections were rigged and his cult will repeat ad nauseam. Should he win, of course, America will be the greatest democracy in the world again.

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    Sep 12th 2024, 12:09 PM

    @Brian: ok so we agree to a point Brian. However she should have been fact checked on her upbringing alone. Working class? She went to private school in Canada. Her policies are joe Bidens policies and a lot of Americans are looking for change

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    Sep 12th 2024, 12:26 PM

    @Mick O’K: hahaha, you just ignored everything Brian said and then picked a random topic where, unfortunately for you, the rap ist hasn’t a leg to stand. In the US, unless you have a country club lifestyle, you’re just an average schmo even if your household earns low 6 figures. With all the bouncing around her family did I wouldn’t even be surprised if they didn’t make 6 figures in today’s money. Unless I’ve missed Harris pretending she was on food stamps, her image as being from an ordinary middle class family sounds correct. But the other lad? Born with a silver spoon in his mouth and ended up owing people spoons. His image as a self made billionaire is laughably stolen. He’s as terrible at business, as you would expect from someone of his low intelligence. He’s been partly successful at the business of selling his name, but so has every single influencer, very few of whom started life with hundreds of millions from daddy.

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    Sep 12th 2024, 12:43 PM

    @Mick O’K: Mick,I hate to be the one to break it to you but in her very opening statement she said ‘ so I was raised as a middle class kid ‘

    Seriously Mick, where you getting this stuff from.. ? Seriously..

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    Sep 12th 2024, 5:51 PM

    @Mick O’K: Trump oozes success lol. What about Trump Casinos? You couldn’t lose with a casino. Guess who did? Then who remembers Trump steaks, Trump University. Trump Vodka, mortgages, and many more failures. Not forgetting his tax cheating and other crimes. What a loser!

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    Sep 12th 2024, 8:40 AM

    In my opinion president Joe Don the world a good one, and anyone thar heard the sad lying crying sex offender orange thing you need education

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    Sep 12th 2024, 9:37 AM

    Any reduction in the bitterness in political world is good. Heavily armed historian Putin and violent sectarian Hamas will require an unflappably teacher. Both contenders for president provide this.

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    Sep 12th 2024, 11:40 AM

    What was he thinking

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    Sep 12th 2024, 12:46 PM

    Did he realise he was wearing it?

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