Trump’s spokesman brought up terrorism. What do the victims think?
Susan Retik had two small children and a third on the way when her husband, David, was killed on the first plane hijacked out of Logan Airport on Sept. 11, 2001. When the Bush administration began using that attack a year later to justify invading Iraq, Retik was furious, feeling that the lives of Dave and all the other victims were being misappropriated.
Now, barely 10 days into the Trump presidency, the Needham resident never imagined she would miss President George W. Bush so much.
“I would do anything to have him back in the White House, because I wouldn’t be worried that someone is accidentally going to tweet the beginning of World War III,” said Retik, now 48.
Of all that has upset Retik so far — and the list is long — she has been most angry over Trump’s executive order suspending refugee admission and banning immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries. Top White House aides have repeatedly cited the Sept. 11 attacks and the Boston Marathon bombing as justification, making the subject fraught and personal for area residents who lost loved ones or were wounded in those attacks, though their feelings about it range.
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