9/11 Widow Blasts Saudis at Ceremony

A 9/11 widow used her moment at the podium near Ground Zero on Friday to send a message to the White House. After reading the name of her husband, Tom Strada, who was killed in the attacks, Terry Strada asked, "How can it be 25 years and still we have no justice for the role that Saudi Arabia played in your murder?" per the New York Post. Strada, the national chair of 9/11 Families United for Justice, didn't stop there.

"For 25 years, administration after administration, including leaders in front of us here today, chose to protect the Saudis instead of standing with the 9/11 families," Strada said, per Axios. "It has been one betrayal after another. President Trump can still change that." Trump himself was not at the ceremony—he spoke at the Pentagon—but Vice President JD Vance was in attendance, and Strada asked him to deliver her message, reports Fox 5. "Tell the Saudis to stop lying," she said. "Tell them that if they want to be friends with the USA they cannot continue to deny all of this." Former presidents Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and George W. Bush were also in attendance.